- Knowing that face to face meetings are handshakes are going to reduce after Covid, a VP of world-wide Sales instructed the entire team to scan the data of each existing business card they have in central contact management.
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Physical Business Cards
Handshakes takes place between your organization and others - by your sales, marketing, services and your channel network and contractors. Contact information is exchanged during such interactions such as business meetings, trade shows, seminars or on-site work. Your organization already possess valuable contact data, which when captured can reveal relationships with other companies and quality leads.
While the organization gets this valuable contact data, our survey shows that 9 out of 10 times it is not captured in any centralized repository, mainly due to absence of processes and systems.
Contactous is One application to acquire, access and analyze contact data across enterprise. You are able to build quality contact database rapidly, across organization. The business card data is accurate and hence dependable, since it is it is manually entered by Contactous. Contact data is a major asset for any organization gets protected. The business card erosion from the company stops. |
Contactous' users need to take only ONE step - To take a photo of their business cards. Contactous' data entry operators enter the data manually, while system's algorithms provide relationship inteligence and powerful reporting.
Three Models to Get Data
Contactous offers 3 models to get data from the scanned business card into the centralized system of organization. The model is selected based on organization's choice:
A) You choose to use Contactous as data acquisition and management system for your organization only. You would like to do the data entry yourself or by your own contractors. In this case, just use the Enterprise Contact Manager license only.
B) In addition to (A) you choose to let the system extract the data from business cards automatically using OCR and populate the fields. You are aware that there could be errors in OCR and parsing the data and choose to correct those errors yourself. In this case, use Enterprise Contact Manager license + Business Card Auto Parser license.
C) In addition to (A), you prefer to have 100% accurate data from all scanned cards into your system. This is a common requirement and transcription of data is done by Contactous' data entry operators. In this case, use Enterprise Contact Manager license + Business Card Transcription Service.
A) You choose to use Contactous as data acquisition and management system for your organization only. You would like to do the data entry yourself or by your own contractors. In this case, just use the Enterprise Contact Manager license only.
B) In addition to (A) you choose to let the system extract the data from business cards automatically using OCR and populate the fields. You are aware that there could be errors in OCR and parsing the data and choose to correct those errors yourself. In this case, use Enterprise Contact Manager license + Business Card Auto Parser license.
C) In addition to (A), you prefer to have 100% accurate data from all scanned cards into your system. This is a common requirement and transcription of data is done by Contactous' data entry operators. In this case, use Enterprise Contact Manager license + Business Card Transcription Service.