Core Talk in Business Examples of Core Talk

Core. Talk in Business Examples of Core. Talk usage in Business

Core. Talk a Business Management Tool A Business management Tool which utilize SMS and Internet (GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA) to deliver information. Core. Talk is a platform that allows you to: “Gather, Manage and Analyze Information” for virtually any business as well as providing other services

Agriculture (Small Agriculture) l l Agriculture is a growing business in “emerging world countries” with emerging bio-industries and food production being high requirements. The Need: – – – To register farmers To assist them in growing the right crops To manage the allocations of fertilizers & seed To obtain early crop predictions so that marketing can “gear up” to correct levels To provide produce pricing to farmers To liaise with markets and coordinate requirements with farmers

Core. Talk and managing the small agriculture business This is an example of an “A Daily An incoming Fertilizer and Spray request A Core. Talk. Areport template loaded tothat a for Produce Pricing schedule” template is drawn up so from the field. This is recorded to a cellphone that is Field staff” cansubmitted use of to sprays Apples in the region A delivery so record filled in. Kabul and Fertilizer and Fungicide/Pesticide database and coordinated so that the Registration Information isisexported to small their cellphone to capture Small Cocoa Afghanistan. Core. Talk from the field. This the exported can be recorded against the small grower can receive fertilizerorand chemicals. spreadsheet orspreadsheet database Growers information. to either an excel a database Growers account and databases Core. Talk can significantly improve collection of the Growers' Costs the are against In recorded this so instance the pricing updated that accounts canwas be account data from field and thus improve the whole Informationresolved isreceived sent via SMS or payments GPRS Information is. BUT received by to acrop Core. Talk in the when are made management process of the small agriculture to Core. Talkdirectly to the field it is delivered grower. farmers cellphone/mobile. The information can be extended to support anyhas been adjusted to The system number of additional processes required to assist deliver pricing in in the Pashtu the agricultural environment. language

Sales Reporting Management Generally qualified management leads require the following: l Saleswell process a key part of most – Ensure you're talking to a decision-maker or a key influencer, at business ventures. minimum. – Identify the pain. What is the need? What type of "fix" are they l The Need: looking for - product, solution, services? – To record every step of the sales process – pipeline – Quantify the potential value of an initial sale. management – When do they plan to buy? Too many good salespeople have – To every opportunity onlyqualify a short-term perspective. They are less interested in nurturing long-term opportunities. – sustaining To build aorleads base – To manage the long term pipeline management is essential to – To close sales and take orders ensure nurturing of the opportunity

Sales Pipeline Management A report template for Sales Pipeline management is easily configured in Core. Talk. And distributed to either a cellphone/mobile or Core. Talk. A another sales report is received from “Ian Rundle” on the 6 th December 2008 Client details are captured andissales is identified along and a note addedneed by the Sales with Service Need Manager. and Pipeline Status. From here the Sales Manager can This. The template can immediately be received completed from virtually contact the on field sales Sales Pipeline report isand completed Core. Talk can considerably assists in managing the sales process allthe way anycellphone “java” enabled phone. and person assist with (OR another Core. Talk) and the sales from Sales pipeline management through toprocess. acceptance of Product Orders or submitted directly to the Sales Manager for Product Enquiries. scrutiny on completion of the sales visit It essentially enables the cellphone/mobile as a business instrument with abilities to update databases and receive reports. Core. Talk can be integrated with virtually any existing sales management process or it can stand alone to provide valuable management and analysis benefits to a company.

Time sheet reporting l l The consulting fraternity need to report time spent on client projects. This applies to Accounting, Engineers, IT consultants, Project Management etc. The Need: – – – To record time spent on projects and report this back to head office. To eliminate time wasted through travelling back to head office at frequent intervals To assist management in managing cash flows

Time Sheet Management l l Time sheet management is a function that is carried out by virtually every consulting type business. A time management template is designed in Typical businesses are: andisuploaded to information the Time sheet Receiving this information. Core. Talk timeously invaluable to company the exported from employees It mobile/cellphone. Core. Talkregular to Excelaccount spreadsheet for – Project Management, management of these businesses. enables consolidation and management and early submission of invoices. – Construction, Here we have a completed times sheet which be sent consumes to a central Core. Talk This couldreceiving equally be to a Additionally, this processwill generally 1 -2 hours ofexported an – IT Consulting, database employees time if they are required tomanagement travel to head office to – Engineering, deliver the information Timesheet information sent via – Advisory and Audit Accounting and The benefits are better control and more SMS chargeable hours from cellphone/mobile – a number of other professions due to ability to remain active on client projects and received by Core. Talk

Police Reporting l l l SMS is becoming an integral part of the policing scenario – it allows for ease of reporting from distant locations, is discrete and can assist in profiling of criminals In South Africa SMS is used in a number of ways including “Crime Line” reporting to a centralised receiving station and this has proven to be very successful. Additionally several police stations have there own Core. Talk for receiving and SMS and this too is very effective. Core. Talks templates allow the police and all those assisting in that realm to download a reporting template to their phone which will ensure that consistent crime reporting takes place and that the results can be analysed and crime profiled. Police investigation in the field is often not comprehensive or adequately documented. Via Core. Talk and its reporting templates this can be extensively improved. ALL incoming information can be linked to a Database for profiling.

Core. Talk – assisting with Policing l A report template is drawn Reporting via Core. Talk ensures: v v up in Core. Talk and then uniformity and completeness of information , distributed to Police stations, police force accountability as all incoming andmembers outgoing Reportsand are business received in from ancrime effort scenes to ensure with sufficient messages are date and time stamped, consistent detail to reporting allow the police to Ability to profile and. Aextract valuable, repeatable profile manage crime report template is loaded toand a police members cellphone so that they can information, complete a report it in field and submit Convenience as reports cantobe submitted from immediately central Police station for afar. analysis

Core. Talk in Banking l l SMS has become an imperative part of the banking environment. Core. Talk is able to integrate into existing banking platforms and is able to run as a service to provide SMS based banking services Core. Talk has SMPP connectivity which allows for high volume transaction levels. Core. Talk provides both “push” and “pull” services - Push being where Core. Talk monitors a database/s looking for a defined transaction and Pull being a transaction request initiated from the cellphone/mobile

Core. Talk in Banking Typical database “push” transactions. Core. Talk monitors a database or l Typical Push Services would include: databases looking for defined – Periodic account balance reporting (say at the end of month); Typical Pull Services would include: transactions, when these are found information is sent to – Account Reporting of salary and other credits to the bank account; balance enquiry; the designated statement – Mini Successful or request; un-successful execution of a standing order; recipient/s – in this case the account holder. Electronic bill payment; Core. Talk can be integrated with any banking system to deliver these – Successful payment of a cheque issued on the account; services. Transfers between customer's own accounts, like moving money Insufficient funds; from a savings account to a current account to fund a cheque; – Large value withdrawals on an account; Stop payment instruction on a cheque; – Large value withdrawals on the ATM or EFTPOS on a debit card; Requesting for an ATM card or credit card to be suspended; – Large value payment on a credit card or out of country activity on a De-activating a credit or debit card when it is lost or the PIN is credit card. known to be compromised; – One-time password and authentication Foreign currency exchange rates enquiry; Fixed deposit interest rates enquiry. –

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