Cardmobili: Innovation Technology in Everyday Life

Cardmobili: Innovation Technology in Everyday Life

Cândida Silva, Isabel Ramos
ISBN13: 9781613503140|ISBN10: 1613503148|EISBN13: 9781613503157
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-314-0.ch010
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Silva, Cândida, and Isabel Ramos. "Cardmobili: Innovation Technology in Everyday Life." Cases on SMEs and Open Innovation: Applications and Investigations, edited by Hakikur Rahman and Isabel Ramos, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 213-226. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-314-0.ch010

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Silva, C. & Ramos, I. (2012). Cardmobili: Innovation Technology in Everyday Life. In H. Rahman & I. Ramos (Eds.), Cases on SMEs and Open Innovation: Applications and Investigations (pp. 213-226). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-314-0.ch010

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Silva, Cândida, and Isabel Ramos. "Cardmobili: Innovation Technology in Everyday Life." In Cases on SMEs and Open Innovation: Applications and Investigations, edited by Hakikur Rahman and Isabel Ramos, 213-226. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-314-0.ch010

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Abstract

The developments of the internet, the proliferation of the use of Web 2.0 tools, and of the technology in general, are leveraging new ways of people to communicate, collaborate, and interact. This new world and new markets, in a daily change, are enabling the emergence of new innovative enterprises and services, taking advantage of the new technologies and of the global network. Cardmobili is a Portuguese start-up company working in the area of mobile services. This company provides a mobile service to manage rewards and membership cards, enabling users to store them in the cloud, while using mobile applications to present them in store, collecting and using the rewards, sharing cards and information with other users and friends in social networks. Cardmobili is linked to merchants’ loyalty management systems, enabling users to access exclusive offers, delivered to their mobile application and web account. The company provides complete services to make any loyalty or membership program mobile: branding, new customer registration, integration of customer account balance, mobile vouchers, coupons and offers, and mobile communication.

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