iTouch offers a range of tried and tested Corporate Mobility Solutions for small, medium and large companies. These solutions include IVR (Interactive Voice Response), Corporate Messaging for bulk SMS sending, Business Mobility Solutions for a paperless world and WAP applications.

ITouch's Interactive Mobile Marketing services delivers influential, unique and cost effective marketing and CRM campaigns across powerful mobile channels such as SMS and IVR. The growing demand for personalized communication between brands and consumers presents iTouch with the opportunity to work with clients and agencies to come up with an ideally suited mechanism to run large-scale or short-life campaigns, which exploit the interactivity of mobile channels to build brand and consumer relationships.

iTouch's Corporate Messaging Solutions are valuable tools in any corporate communications mix. They include out-of-the-box SMS-based products, bespoke applications and consulting, leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies available. Being promptly responsive to a customer's needs is a winning strategy in business today and the lightning speed with which queries and problems are attended to and information communicated gives any company a competitive edge and is a must in today's economic climate.

We understand that messaging may look complex on the out set, but in many cases this may be as easy as pressing a button. In order to try and make messaging as simple as possible we have categorized our products into usability and connectivity. Usability for people who want to send a sms in the easiest possible way, and connectivity for the sms enablement of computer systems. For more see www.itouchsms.co.za.

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), another corporate application, will take on a new lease on life in its role as the Mobile Internet now that GPRS is easing into South Africa's communication mix. Improved communication speeds and the 'always on' facility will make it a practical medium for business applications.

The iTouch suite of corporate WAP products include:

• Automated WAP configurations service (OTA) - iConfigure
• Powerful email solutions - iMail
• WAP consulting - iConsult
• Virtual WAP Customer Care and Training of Operators and Staff - iCare
• WAP Hosting - iHost

Through mobile solutions such as these many companies proved that there are faster, cheaper and more efficient ways to do business.

Mobile solutions are no longer prohibitively expensive, particularly if pilot projects show the way. Return on investments is also proving remarkably short and savings immense.

The Mobile Business Express is here and it's gaining momentum. Shouldn't you be on board?

iTouch SA shares its global expertise in consumer mobile products and services with companies wanting to offer value-added services to customers, readers or web-site visitors. The vast choice includes competitions, information and entertainment services together with fun features that enable cellphone users to enhance their cellphone experience.

This expertise means iTouch can, in consultation with corporate clients, hand-pick a choice of products and services that best suits the customers' profiles.

Being active internationally means iTouch is quickly able to pick up on consumer trends around the world and be proactive in ensuring its clients are first to market with ideas that are successful with consumers elsewhere.

The technological expertise iTouch brings to corporate clients - which include financial, media, retail, automotive and telecommunication companies - is the ability to integrate its offerings with products offered by the client.

The modular building blocks of the consumer-product approach means products integrate smoothly with each other - saving time and money bringing new ideas to market.

iTouch's end-to-end consumer services solutions are available in five service areas which match the high growth areas in consumer services. The product streams are:

1. Device Personalisation
   The Mobile Magic offering includes ringtones, operator logos, picture messaging, group graphics and screensavers. The device personalisation trend will explode as more and more handsets are launched supporting the personalisation feature. iTouch has an extensive content library and has signed licensing deals with most of the holders of the rights to the most popular music and graphics.
2. Virtual Communities
   iTouch offers Dateline in this product stream. Exciting future developments are in the pipeline, so watch this space.
3. Mobile Entertainment
   Mobile entertainment is expected to be a major revenue spinner for mobile networks. iTouch will be focusing on three major applications in the near future that will change the way you "play" with your cellphone.
4. Content
   Mobile content includes SMS, Alerts and WAP. Alerts is a suite of SMS information services which send sports results, share prices, weather forecasts, news headlines (sport, IT, local, international), horoscopes and personalised reminders to your cellphone as a short text message, keeping you up to date any time, any place. This information can also be requested / received via WAP and SMS-MO.
5. Commerce
   This product offering will include ticketing, vouchers, advertising and cross selling. Watch this space for future developments.

iTouch works closely with its corporate customers to devise the consumer product strategy and develop a framework which enables rapid deployment of new ideas which entrench market leadership.