2. Who are we?
Softaktif
software development company (Istanbul/Turkey)
focused on mobile and web applications
"Aktif Ileti“
field operations company (Istanbul/Turkey)
first private postal company of Turkey
employs more than one thousand couriers
operates in Turkey and Romania
founded in 1993
Aktif Group of Companies
3. Letter-post market is declining
New businesses should be created based on existing
infrastructure
Assets of a postal distribution company:
Nation-wide network in the region
Relationships with local entities:
People
Culture
Businesses
Legal entities
Geography
4. Aktif Ileti: Transform to an e-based company
Made investments:
3G& GPS enabled mobile phones for courriers
With custom mobile software
Distribution process can be tracked on the map
Office workers can work from anywhere
GSM phones with mobile PBX
(no fixed lines)
5. Invested inhouse R&D projects
Dr. Address
Address parsing and correction software
Geocoding function:
Can identify the X,Y points on the map
Suspicious delivery identification report
Compares coordinates with the actual delivery points
Auto-sorting machine
Dr. Address identifies the region of the items
6. Becoming e-based field ops. company
Data collection service
Location based services need data from the field
POI data
Business names
GPS coordinates
Collected more than 6 M data
Instant polls & field surveys
Nation-wide
With 5.000 people
Delivers the result in 3 days
Report on the map
7. Credit card contract business
Delivers contract forms to recipients.
Recipient fulfills the form.
Courier bring back to the office (than, to the bank)
Bank scans the contracts for data entry
Problems:
Delay: takes 2-3 weeks to deliver a form to the bank
Delayed contract activation & loss of revenue for the bank
Completely depends on manuel process and hardcopy, error prone
8. New contract service with Digital Pen (DigiPen)
All couriers are carrying a digital pen
Contract forms
Imported to the digital pen platform
Printed
Pre-distributed to courriers
9. Operation
Bank receives a customer request
Transmits the job order to Aktif Ileti
Courrier receives the job order and reaches to the recipients address
Recipient fulfills the form by using DigiPen
Form data & PDF File is transmitted to the server instantly
10. Major benefits
Time saving.
Bank can activate the contract and issue the credit cards faster
Elimination of missing fields on the contract form
can be identified and corrected in the field.
Easy integration with existing e-archive solutions
11. Returned items database (under development)
We are building a DB for previously returned items. For:
Recipient relocated
Address could not be reached (wrong building number etc.)
This DB will be used for future items:
Address will parsed and formatted
If it’s found in the DB:
It will not be transferred to the fields.
Returned to the sender
Sender will not lose time, and can act immidiatelly
Delivery rate results will be better for field operations
Operational cost will be reduced (for returned items)
12. Beyond the postal distribution and field operations
Our technology and tools can be used by other sectors
Address parsing and geocoding software
Can be used by search engine companies, navigation companies, directory
services
Any company needs to curate and de-duplicate its address database
Mobile device management applications
Can be used by any company that having large deployments of mobile
devices
Mapping and spatial analysis software
Can be used for geo-marketting & planning