I truly like companies we work with. ATB Techsoft is a category-king software entity which has grown rapidly over the last few months. With the company’s permission, I did a piece how we worked with ATB Techsoft, using the One Oasis Strategy, to shape strategy on the company’s software business. We found the oasis; yes, the best product: FinUltimate. Then, the One Oasis Mechanism was implemented, adding intelligence in the product with elemental AI systems. Today, FinUltimate has blossomed, and has a life of its own, winning markets and territories not just in Nigeria but Africa.

In business, you need to identify your best product (the oasis) and get other products to build habitations around it.  I’d spent time in a very fascinating software powerhouse in Lagos: ATB Techsoft Solutions. ATB Techsoft is one of the largest emerging software companies in Nigeria today with excess of 20 great products with applications across industrial sectors.  I would be sharing more on this company in coming days. But in a conversation, I asked the MD of the company to find an oasis within his firm. He came back after one week with an answer: its oasis is FinUltimate.

I share these contents from FinUltimate team below and certainly want you to send your sales automation business frictions to them. Every aspect of the technology is home-grown and developed under the leadership of the CEO. So, they have the capacity to evolve any process or system to meet your specific needs.

Features of FinUltimate

Sales automation is the process of using software to automate the business tasks of sales, including order processing, contact management, information sharing, inventory monitoring and control, order tracking, customer management, sales forecast analysis and employee performance evaluation (Webopedia).

The data derived from these activities helps to improve an organization’s sales process, and also helps such companies build better relationships with clients. This will ultimately lead to closing more deals faster.

Sales automation tools are usually accessible in real time providing the organization with vital reports on sales, revenue and the activity of every sales person in that organization. This helps to know who is contributing positively to the bottom line of the company.

Integrating sales automation into an organization’s operations provides useful data and insights that helps an organization improve its service. It also helps sales people become more productive.

Benefits of sales automation to an organization

• With sales automation, salespeople can record all their activities in real time which management can access to evaluate their impact. Management will then be able to make decisions based on real-time information made available from the sales automation system.
• Organization’s can set their sales process, ensuring sales people meet certain conditions before they can move deals to the next stage of their pipeline.
• Generated data fosters greater collaboration and information sharing among members of the organization

FinUltimate, a made in Nigeria CRM tool, is a good marketing automation tool. FinUltimate comes equipped with smart tools to drive up your sales.

Some of the features of FinUltimate includes: Email integration, Credit Management, Competitor analysis, Quotation management, Deal management, Pipeline management, Target viewing & much more.

You can visit https://finultimate.com to get started!

How a Lagos Software Company Is Growing

We live in a digital era and understanding everything that is happening around us should be everyone’s priority before choosing a system on which they want to depend for today knowledge, data, service and production acquisition. This post helps you get started with your quest by, first of all, defining information architecture, and then breaking it down to what is involved. For a student in need of academic writing help, it is as simple as downloading an academic assignment via a writing App or logging onto a custom service platform to place a paper order. In the process, answers to questions like who can write me a thesis paper become easy to find.

However, that is not as far it goes. We are surrounded by information plethora, and everything we do in the 21^st century will always have a strong link with seeking knowledge online, buying a product on web-based retail sites like Amazon or eBay, signing for government services via a web portal or connecting with friends on social networks.

Now, taking note of all these and many others, a little inquisitiveness should get you asking more questions like, who is behind seamless experiences we get on a website, mobile applications or when shopping online? What about security layers that keeps you safe online? Well, there are architectural practices that make all these possible, and in this case, it has everything to do with information experts such as IT project managers, back-end and front-end developers, computer scientists and data analysts. Keep reading to find out more.

Definition of information architecture

With the above prelude at the back of your mind, it is also important to understanding information architecture in definitive terms. Well, different publications may put it differently, but, a basic outlook has everything to do with designing a working and seamless product. Interconnectedness of various components of a complete IT infrastructure, therefore, plays significance.

If, for example, you are asked to design a website,  it is imperative to, first of all, craft a working plan that brings together a host of things such as database, preferred design template, algorithm, programming language, User experience (UX), User interface (UI) and others. With all the above taken care of, the next stage is a carefully planned process and meticulous t decision making. In a nutshell, there is no room for mistakes once you become part of a team working towards developing an information system.

A big team working together

Moreover, it is noteworthy that deployment of an IT infrastructure isn’t something you can realize working alone.  Unless you want things to fall apart midway, you shouldn’t risk such a path. Experts will tell you that it is like building a house. There is someone who comes up with a plan for construction, a plumber, and a mason and roofing specialist.

Now, given that information architecture makes it possible for everyone to access the digital world (Internet of things) via multiple tech gadgets such as smartphones, let’s look at a simple illustration such as developing a shopping App for smartphones.

The following are, therefore, key tasks and responsibilities that would yield forth a working platform/architectural design:

• Designing steps buyers will take from the time they sign into a shopping application such as viewing different products, reading descriptions, adding items to cart to checkout. It is the responsibility of a professional information architect to make sure such a process is not only seamless, fast and convenient, but also gives buyers unmatched user experience.
• Ensuring that the application works efficiently without lags. In this regard, technical aspects of a project are another task involved in designing and deployment of information architecture. Here, you must take into account user experience as well. For example, what sort of database will you find by clicking a button? Is everything in order so that whatever information you seek, it is always in the right place, and at the right time?
• User interface design is another pivotal role undertaken by architects of information.  Think about a website, its navigation buttons, color themes, textual overlay and other elements that would make your visit worthy a good experience. In a nutshell, usability of an IT product is a pivotal aspect of information architecture you can’t afford to ignore.

Key skills for information architects

Thus far, it is clear that becoming a successful information architect is no mean feat. You need proper training on a whole range of things, including how to manage IT projects effectively. The following skills would, therefore, come in handy:

• UX design and wire framing.
• SLQ
• Web development with an emphasis on JavaScript.
• Data Modeling.
• Mapping and analysis of business processes.

Final Words

In summary, information architecture is one of today’s indispensable career fields. Every business that runs its activities needs a working system. Specialties in this area also understand that that without having a proper plan for an agile project you want to execute through scrum. Thesisgeek.com can help you with the planning and mapping.

MainOne has announced a metro fiber infrastructure project in two states of Nigeria, with support from Facebook. The infrastructure collaboration is part of Facebook’s efforts to connect more people to broadband internet. As part of this project, MainOne is building and operating approximately 750 km terrestrial fiber infrastructure in Edo and Ogun States, two of Nigeria’s fastest growing states.

These open-access transport networks will provide metro fiber connectivity to reach more than 1,000,000 people in Benin City, Abeokuta, Sagamu and 10 other towns by connecting mobile operators’ base stations, Internet Service providers, Points of presence (POPs), and public locations including schools and hospitals. This partnership will leverage MainOne’s strength as a wholesale Telecoms Infrastructure service provider with investment from Facebook and support from local regulatory and state authorities to further deepen broadband penetration in Nigeria.

Speaking on the partnership, Ibrahima Ba, Network Investments Lead for Emerging Markets at Facebook, said: “We are working closely with MainOne and other partners to accelerate broadband deployment. In Nigeria, we are bringing together Facebook’s learnings from scaling our global infrastructure with MainOne’s knowledge of the local environment to develop and test new working models for multiple operators to access common infrastructure.”

Remember my prediction that by 2022 we will have immersive connectivity in Nigeria. This is going to be part of the equation. As providers like MTN battle satellite providers even as global ICT utilities like Google and Facebook enter the fray, customers would see significant drop in prices even as quality improves.

*APO newswire contents are copyright-free – so I used some parts verbatim.