Why Join Coral CEA?

Coral CEA accelerates the commercialization of full system solutions,
services and stand-alone components that integrate communications services
and information technology to deliver value to customers.

Coral CEA provides its members:

  • an out-of-the-box environment to experiment, carry out research,
    and co-create innovative products, services and solutions with
    their customers and partners
  • technical and business expertise
  • access to other members
  • facilitated sessions to address strategic market opportunities
  • centralized point for information and services
  • training sessions
  • support to grow their businesses in a high-growth market space

Benefits: Become a member in Coral CEA to:

  • increase the innovation that leads to a more profitable deal flow
  • reduce risk of defining, hardening, and exploiting new
    opportunities
  • build capability to collaborate with other organizations
  • increase the value of your brand in the communications enabled
    applications market space
  • decrease your investment in the infrastructure required to develop
    new products, services and solutions
  • decrease pre-development costs and time-to-cash
  • increase your knowledge of business models and technology
    viability in a new market space
  • access key players and increase the size and diversity of your
    partner and customer network
  • accelerate the adoption of your products, components and services
  • decrease time to react to competitors’ offers and
    environmental threats

Why Join Coral CEA

  1. Provides Small Businesses with capabilities that they need to grow that
    are out of their reach:

  2. Enhance competitiveness and reduce costs

    • Out-of-the-box technology building blocks to enhance their
      products
    • > Powerful & easy to use
      > Prototype advanced capabilities with their customers
      > Enhance specific ICT capability without significant new R&D
    • Reduce Costs
    • Ability to practice and develop their business with expert support
      from community business leaders

    Grow the business

    • Awareness and collaboration with others companies that may have
      complementary capabilities
    • Access to some big company players to partner with
    • Vehicle to deploy or accelerate adoption of their technology (via
      contribution to the sandbox)

    Result is more competitive product and rapid time to market.

  3. Provides large companies with access to quality innovation and partners:
  4. Grow the business

    • Discover and interact with innovative companies that can add value
      to large company’s offer
    • Common platform to facilitate integration of innovations into
      larger solutions
    • Ability to explore business viability of new ideas at low cost

    Enhance competitiveness

    • Ability to react quickly to market events by leveraging partners
      Gather deep insight into new opportunities without making large
      investment

    Result is effective and more rapid business growth.

  5. Provides companies not building CEAs with business development
    opportunities:
    • Contributing free early stage help leads to trusted relationships
      and commercial arrangements when new companies succeed
    • Ability to help the community - increase its overall business
      health
    • Evolve and adapt their offers to meet the new business
      requirements of the ecosystem
    • Identify high quality investment opportunities (higher or faster
      time to ROI)

    Result is business growth.

  6. Provides companies needing to improve their productivity with new
    competitive alternatives
    • > Ability to engage entrepreneurs and business leaders to articulate
      their needs and shape solutions tailored for their business
    • > Gain help at understanding the ‘art-of-the-possible’
      and enhancing their business productivity
    • > Understand and set new price & performance targets for solutions

    Result is reduced cost and increased efficiency & productivity of
    their business (improved competitiveness)

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