Calvis, a leading IT and management consultancy for the professional services sector, has signed an agreement with Research In Motion (RIM) to become a BlackBerry Alliance Select Member partner. The partnership is a result of the industry interest generated by the InterAction for BlackBerry™ application; a solution developed by Calvis which enables fee earners and mobile workers to conveniently access client and prospect intelligence stored within LexisNexis InterAction via their BlackBerry.
Calvis developed the application to enable fee earners to access client and contact information residing in InterAction from their BlackBerry smartphones. Now that this data can be retrieved while on the move, firms will benefit from increased productivity; shorter business development cycles; improved levels of client service; quicker InterAction adoption; and earlier return on CRM investment.
Dan Sloshberg, Professional Services Marketing Manager for EMEA at RIM, said: “We are always looking to partner with organizations that use our technology to bring innovative solutions to the market and Calvis’s InterAction for BlackBerry is certainly one of those. It empowers the mobile workforce and reduces operational costs.”
Calvis is also a LexisNexis solution partner and as part of this relationship leverages its domain knowledge across the professional services sector to create valuable add-on applications for LexisNexis’s market leading CRM software.
Chris Lees, executive director at Calvis, said: “The partnerships with LexisNexis and RIM endorse the work we have undertaken around this application. This solution can be up and running in a matter of hours and can demonstrate an immediate return on investment. Many firms are looking to maximize their existing CRM investment and the InterAction for BlackBerry application enables them to do exactly that.”
Maciek Janowski, director sales and strategic marketing, at Calvis said: “The InterAction for BlackBerry application benefits fee earners, RIM and LexisNexis. Fee earners prosper from having CRM in the palm of their hand; RIM raises the value of BlackBerry across professional firms; and LexisNexis succeeds in mobilising its InterAction CRM from the desktop to the frontline of client service and revenue generation.”