Church and Crawford selects Kalsoft as its System Integrator for the African Market
February 21 2012 - 4:30PM
Business Wire
Church & Crawford, Inc. (OTC: CCWF) and Kalsoft announce an
agreement between the two companies for Kalsoft to become the Sales
and System Integrator (“SI”) for sales, deployment and first line
support for the Church & Crawford’s solution for the African
market.
Africa, with Kenya at its forefront, is currently the fastest
growing mobile phone market in the world. Over the past five years
the continent's mobile phone use has increased at an annual rate of
65 percent - twice the global average. In June of 1999, Kenya had
15,000 mobile phone subscribers. By the end of 2004 the country had
3.4 million subscribers, and in the last 18 months this number has
grown to over 5.6 million, despite the fact that only 200,000
Kenyan households have electricity. Africa’s adoption of mobile
phone technology shows the value of inexpensive, mobile computing
for a people representative of the 1.4 billion mobile phone users
living in the developing world today.
The large numbers of users pose a key challenge to the mobile
phone companies that must service the needs of their millions of
customers both in terms of keeping costs down and simultaneously
providing excellent customer service. It is exactly these mobile
phone company customer service requirements that are clearly
addressed by the Church & Crawford solution.
Kalsoft is a Premier Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and is
committed to deliver the state-of-the-art solutions based on
Microsoft technologies. With over 2000 FTE, Kalsoft has
subsidiaries based in the U.A.E., Oman, and Lahore, and operate in
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom and the United States
through its partners. Kalsoft has successfully developed and
implemented solutions for multi sector organisations such as Banks,
Hospitals, Universities, Military and Telecoms. Church &
Crawford has developed technology that provides computer telephony
Integration (CTI) software for mobile phones. This solution enables
companies to provision and manage "infinite" number of mobiles
devices, i.e. customers. It also presents companies with instant
cost reduction and revenue streams, which were previously
unavailable. Through its Graphical User Interface (GUI), Orexis
technology enables users to interact with companies contact
centre's in a clear, efficient manner. It also provides previously
unable methods to interact with and have enquiries dealt with in a
quicker manner. Combining efficiency, customer service and mobile
marketing, Orexis technology is a first of a kind technology. Ray
Khan, inventor of Orexis Solutions states, "Kalsoft has all the
right credentials. They have the ability to further develop and
support the solution, as well as international presence to support
our projected customer base. Their willingness to invest into the
business is a testament to our proposition." Khurram Kalia, CEO,
Kalsoft states, "We have reviewed the Orexis business, its strategy
and the solution and it's clear that it has phenomenal growth
potential. Kalsoft has in the past invested both in terms of money
and manpower into projects, but by far this is the most exciting
and innovative proposition we have worked on to date. Kalsoft has
the industry and technical knowledge to continue growth of the
Orexis Solution. We look forward in implementing the Solution
globally."
About Church & Crawford
Church & Crawford is a mobile phone software solutions
company. The company develops and implements software solutions for
mobile hand phones. Its main area of concentration is the
development and implementation of software in these fields:
Interactive Voice Response (“IVR”) solutions, Computer Telephony
Integration (“CTI”) software.
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