Clickatell, leading provider of mobile messaging solutions, today announced it has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors in Mobile and Wireless, 2009i” report by Gartner.
“Developers worldwide are actively engaging Clickatell to implement innovative mobile messaging services for a myriad uses,” said Pieter de Villiers, Clickatell CEO.
“From creating mobile social networks to helping save lives on the Hudson River, SMS is inherent as communities, governments and enterprises deliver strategic mobile services to customers and constituents. Well known within the mobile developer community, Clickatell provides all the necessary tools to begin delivering pioneering mobile solutions to customers in less than a day.”
SMS technology - functional on all cellphones - provides banks, insurance companies, mortgage lenders, foreign exchange, microfinancers, social networks, hospitals, publishers, and more with a direct, quick channel for instant customer communications, instant cost savings and an instant revenue opportunity.
Easy to initiate and receive, SMS provides a tool for immediate customer intimacy, a key strategy for countering the economic downturn, and also presents opportunities to create new customer value and loyalty. Even in these slowing times, it is widely believed that people won't give up their cellphones, and more and more businesses are looking at ways to leverage text messaging as a way to 'touch' their customers.
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Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are:
* Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before;
* Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); and
* Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
Clickatell
Clickatell enables businesses, governments and communities to leverage the ubiquity of mobile messaging to inform, alert, notify, transact, interact and share information. Delivering mobile messaging solutions since 2000, Clickatell is a global leader in mobile communications specializing in SaaS messaging services and Bulk SMS gateway connectivity to small, medium and large enterprises in a variety of vertical markets. Clickatell's multi-modal capability and worldwide coverage gives organizations the power to deliver any message to any device anywhere in the world. Reaching 775 networks in more than 200 countries, Clickatell serves 8,300 customers including Standard Bank, First National Bank, Nedbank, CapiTec, Old Mutual, Moneybookers, Metropolitan Life, Visa, S1 Corporation and other financial service providers. Clickatell products and services increase customer acquisition, improve loyalty and build trusted brands through direct, personal, easy and immediate communications. A Sequoia-backed company, Clickatell is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and has offices in South Africa. For more information, please visit http://www.clickatell.com/central/campaigns/redir.php?cid=96135
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