Says Saiful Alam, Grameenphone SCM’s Contract Admin Manager:

"This is a wonderful user friendly tool considering all other contract management tools available in the market for the contract administrators to manage and administer their contracts in systematic and professional way. Any person familiar with MS outlook can easily handle Contiki. This tool facilitates handling of documents and information for all stakeholders of the contract using three types of access (CIS, CCS and Client PC version). Organization can use it for all types of contracts such as purchasing, sales, corporate and all others types of contract separately in one system."

This is not the first time that Contiki’s Enterprise Contract Management tool has been distinguished from it’s competition by it’s users - Halliburton, Telenor, DnBNOR have all cited Contiki ECM as being incredibly user friendly and easy to use.

Lars Robertsen, CMA Contiki's Telecommunications Executive said:

"I am incredibly happy that Grameenphone should choose to say this about our system and I am confident that as we develop our telecommunications business further then all of our clients, new and existing, will be able to capitalise on our success"

About Grameenphone

Grameenphone is now the leading telecommunications service provider in Bangladesh with more than 16 million subscribers as of December 2007.

Presently, there are about 30 million telephone users in the country, of which, a little over one million are fixed-phone users and the rest mobile phone subscribers.

Grameenphone is a joint venture enterprise between Telenor (62%), the largest telecommunications service provider in Norway with mobile phone operations in 12 other countries, and Grameen Telecom Corporation (38%), a non-profit sister concern of the internationally acclaimed micro-credit pioneer Grameen Bank.

They were the first company to introduce GSM technology in Bangladesh when it launched its services in March 1997.The technological know-how and managerial expertise of Telenor has been instrumental in setting up such an international standard mobile phone operation in Bangladesh. Being one of the pioneers in developing the GSM service in Europe, Telenor has also helped to transfer this knowledge to the local employees over the years.