The stages of the CCIFI Connect application project
04/04/2022
6min
Tables des matières
In a context of health crisis and acceleration of the digital transformation of companies, CCI France International wanted to create an application to bring together its members and create a business community available at any time through CCIFI Connect.
Charles Maridor, General Delegate of CCI France International and Pascal Ameline, in charge of the digital activity at CCI France International agreed to share their experience regarding the development and launch of this application with Blue Soft.
Presentation of the CCI France International :
"CCI France International brings together the French chambers of commerce abroad. There are 126 of them and they are present in 97 countries around the world. It is a network that has the specificity of being completely private and 99% self-financed. Our mission is to animate the French business community abroad and therefore we bring together both French companies established abroad, but also many local companies that have business relations with France. In this context, we organize all kinds of events and we make contacts on a permanent basis within these communities. The French chambers abroad are also service platforms since our mission is to develop business between France and abroad and therefore we welcome companies, we help them in their commercial development in the countries and we help them to establish themselves" explains Charles Maridor
Why did you choose Blue Soft for the development of CCIFI Connect?
CCI France International has had a mobile application project in mind for a long time, and it's clear that the health crisis and the acceleration of digitalization for many organizations during this period prompted us to speed up and launch this project. To do so, we explored the market and studied various options, and in the end, Blue Soft, seemed to be the right company to approach for this project. With Blue Soft, we found not only a service provider, but also a partner who understood our specific needs and was able to adapt to our constraints, whether organizational or financial. "
How did you go about thinking about this CCIFI Connect application?
Pascal Ameline explains: "In 2020, we had the Covid crisis, the health crisis, the economic crisis, which marked a bit of a pause on our various projects and we had to refocus on our priorities by meeting two main objectives: The first objective, to save time to the chambers especially in the generation of their leads and business leads and the second objective which was to find solutions, new services, new value-added services for members and to retain them.
The mobile application was the answer to these two objectives and we have launched the development of the mobile application that we have named CCIFFI Connect. This application is reserved exclusively for members and is a support, a new communication channel for the chambers with their companies and members. It is also a new support of belonging for the members of the companies that belong to a worldwide network of CCI FI. A company that is a member of a chamber in Japan is actually a member of an international network of French chambers of commerce."
What were the steps and stakeholders?
"We first launched a large initial project with a fairly small number of rooms. Canada, Qatar and Great Britain took part in UX/UI workshops with the Blue Soft graphics team. (Le Renard Bleu) The aim was to define the outline and functional perimeter of the application, define user stories, wireframes and mock-ups.
We then had to test all these graphic interfaces with testers and end users to arrive at a validated functional and graphic perimeter. The development teams at Blue Soft were then mobilized to build and design the mobile application," explains the head of the digital business.
At what stage of the project are you?
"The mobile app project began in November 2020 with UX/UI workshops with Renard Bleu. The development teams were then able, in less than 5 months to develop the first version of the app, all the technical basics, the graphic basics and the ergonomic basics.
An onboarding phase was necessary in order to guarantee a secure authentication with login and password, as CCIFI Connect is exclusively reserved to the members of the chambers. A certain amount of content arrived afterwards.
With the Explore the World feature, each member, each chamber can go explore new markets, new countries in the application and discover the events, the privilege offers, the sectorial news that the chamber makes available to its members.
The application was launched in May 2021 in about thirty countries and we are waiting for the development of V2 in the rest of the 85 countries in which the chambers are present," continuesMr. Ameline.
What are the prospects for this application?
"We have already launched the second development phase of our CCFI Connect mobile application, in two stages. The first stage will consist of upgrading and correcting the small errors and imperfections of version one, and the second stage will involve adding new functionalities, in particular access to the worldwide directory of contacts of the 35,000 member companies of the chambers, representing a total of 170,000 contacts who could potentially have access to the application.
For its members, for its contacts, the possibility of having chat modules, of putting in relation also.
We will also give members the opportunity to group themselves by interest, affinity, or theme by offering them dedicated and personalized content through premium articles, sector-specific articles that will be displayed according to their geolocation, their profile, their area of interest, their sector of activity, and their status and needs at the time," concludes Pascal Ameline.
For more information, visit Digital Factory : https://www.bluesoft-group.com/digital-factory/
The stages of the CCIFI Connect application project
04/04/2022
6min
Tables des matières
In a context of health crisis and acceleration of the digital transformation of companies, CCI France International wanted to create an application to bring together its members and create a business community available at any time through CCIFI Connect.
Charles Maridor, General Delegate of CCI France International and Pascal Ameline, in charge of the digital activity at CCI France International agreed to share their experience regarding the development and launch of this application with Blue Soft.
Presentation of the CCI France International :
"CCI France International brings together the French chambers of commerce abroad. There are 126 of them and they are present in 97 countries around the world. It is a network that has the specificity of being completely private and 99% self-financed. Our mission is to animate the French business community abroad and therefore we bring together both French companies established abroad, but also many local companies that have business relations with France. In this context, we organize all kinds of events and we make contacts on a permanent basis within these communities. The French chambers abroad are also service platforms since our mission is to develop business between France and abroad and therefore we welcome companies, we help them in their commercial development in the countries and we help them to establish themselves" explains Charles Maridor
Why did you choose Blue Soft for the development of CCIFI Connect?
CCI France International has had a mobile application project in mind for a long time, and it's clear that the health crisis and the acceleration of digitalization for many organizations during this period prompted us to speed up and launch this project. To do so, we explored the market and studied various options, and in the end, Blue Soft, seemed to be the right company to approach for this project. With Blue Soft, we found not only a service provider, but also a partner who understood our specific needs and was able to adapt to our constraints, whether organizational or financial. "
How did you go about thinking about this CCIFI Connect application?
Pascal Ameline explains: "In 2020, we had the Covid crisis, the health crisis, the economic crisis, which marked a bit of a pause on our various projects and we had to refocus on our priorities by meeting two main objectives: The first objective, to save time to the chambers especially in the generation of their leads and business leads and the second objective which was to find solutions, new services, new value-added services for members and to retain them.
The mobile application was the answer to these two objectives and we have launched the development of the mobile application that we have named CCIFFI Connect. This application is reserved exclusively for members and is a support, a new communication channel for the chambers with their companies and members. It is also a new support of belonging for the members of the companies that belong to a worldwide network of CCI FI. A company that is a member of a chamber in Japan is actually a member of an international network of French chambers of commerce."
What were the steps and stakeholders?
"We first launched a large initial project with a fairly small number of rooms. Canada, Qatar and Great Britain took part in UX/UI workshops with the Blue Soft graphics team. (Le Renard Bleu) The aim was to define the outline and functional perimeter of the application, define user stories, wireframes and mock-ups.
We then had to test all these graphic interfaces with testers and end users to arrive at a validated functional and graphic perimeter. The development teams at Blue Soft were then mobilized to build and design the mobile application," explains the head of the digital business.
At what stage of the project are you?
"The mobile app project began in November 2020 with UX/UI workshops with Renard Bleu. The development teams were then able, in less than 5 months to develop the first version of the app, all the technical basics, the graphic basics and the ergonomic basics.
An onboarding phase was necessary in order to guarantee a secure authentication with login and password, as CCIFI Connect is exclusively reserved to the members of the chambers. A certain amount of content arrived afterwards.
With the Explore the World feature, each member, each chamber can go explore new markets, new countries in the application and discover the events, the privilege offers, the sectorial news that the chamber makes available to its members.
The application was launched in May 2021 in about thirty countries and we are waiting for the development of V2 in the rest of the 85 countries in which the chambers are present," continuesMr. Ameline.
What are the prospects for this application?
"We have already launched the second development phase of our CCFI Connect mobile application, in two stages. The first stage will consist of upgrading and correcting the small errors and imperfections of version one, and the second stage will involve adding new functionalities, in particular access to the worldwide directory of contacts of the 35,000 member companies of the chambers, representing a total of 170,000 contacts who could potentially have access to the application.
For its members, for its contacts, the possibility of having chat modules, of putting in relation also.
We will also give members the opportunity to group themselves by interest, affinity, or theme by offering them dedicated and personalized content through premium articles, sector-specific articles that will be displayed according to their geolocation, their profile, their area of interest, their sector of activity, and their status and needs at the time," concludes Pascal Ameline.
For more information, visit Digital Factory : https://www.bluesoft-group.com/digital-factory/