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| eLABs extends a wide
range of services to its member-companies. These services
cover all of the aspects related to Sales & Marketing,
Institutional Development, and Technical practices. This wide
range of services aims at assisting member-companies to upgrade
their capacities and businesses, as well as strengthening
team spirit among members, benefiting from economies of scale,
and enhancing members’ competitive advantage. The services
include, but not limited to: |
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Sales &
Marketing Services |
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| Developing local distribution
& marketing systems for member- companies’ products and
services, through creating new collective distribution channels
and apparatuses; |
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Developing marketing
tools, material and systems to support member-companies
(such as collective website, collective catalogues, call
center, etc.);
Managing collective bidding for large-scale projects on
the national and regional levels; and |
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| Investing in establishing
common resources to be shared by member-companies, such as:
regional offices utilized for international marketing activities,
excellence center, software libraries, etc. |
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Institutional
Development Services |
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| Establishing dialogue
with governmental bodies and decision-makers, in order to
work on improving the economic and legal environment surrounding
the ICT sector, as well as contribute in the modernization
process and boost the local demand for the Egyptian ICT products
and services; |
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| Liaising with local
and International Organizations in areas, which can benefit
the Egyptian ICT economy sector; |
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| Supporting member-companies
to upgrading their capabilities, developing their companies
and grow their business; |
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| Creating Clusters –
where several member-companies work in cooperation on a certain
project, within the project guidelines and quality management
framework adopted by eLABs; and |
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| Advocating member-companies
interested in merging and/or entering into formal cooperation/strategic
alliance agreements, as the above clusters demonstrate successful
performance in practice. |
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Technical Services |
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| Performing methodological
quality testing and assurance procedures on the members’ software
products. eLABs has established a 3-phase quality assurance
system, with clear evaluation and acceptance criteria &
procedures. Only products that comply with these requirements
can be marketed through eLABs initiatives. Products failing
to meet these standards are reported back to developers with
clear technical details and reasons to be modified and the
developer can re-apply for re-evaluation once such problems
are resolved; and |
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| Supporting R&D initiatives leading
to benefit member-companies and the Egyptian ICT economy sector. |
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