Reference number : GC-2017-Q2-00020, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Williamson, Vanessa (Seneca College), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Ontario, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Engage Grants for Colleges, program name french : Subventions d'engagement partenarial pour les collèges, program purpose english : Costek, a Toronto-based company, helps its clients achieve the optimum results from their telecom services whilst reducing their overall telecom spend. The Costek mission is to, over the next five years, help medium sized businesses save at least $10B in telecom spend. They have developed an enterprise grade service, sophisticated tools and proprietary data models that are accessible to any business at no upfront cost through Costeks consulting business. Through engaging with Costek, their customers are provided with telecom cost reduction analytics to boost their productivity - by maximizing cost-savings and supercharging their efficiency through the implementation of a better, leaner, needs-driven telecom service._x000D_
The company-specific opportunity that this project will address is one of productivity and scalability. The solution is to develop and implement of a B2B SAAS (software as a service) platform to provide automated telecom costs reduction analytics. Costek aims to lower its operational cost, improve its reach to global clients and create new jobs in Ontario, while helping its clients significantly lower the spend on their telecom cost., program purpose french : Costek, a Toronto-based company, helps its clients achieve the optimum results from their telecom services whilst reducing their overall telecom spend. The Costek mission is to, over the next five years, help medium sized businesses save at least $10B in telecom spend. They have developed an enterprise grade service, sophisticated tools and proprietary data models that are accessible to any business at no upfront cost through Costeks consulting business. Through engaging with Costek, their customers are provided with telecom cost reduction analytics to boost their productivity - by maximizing cost-savings and supercharging their efficiency through the implementation of a better, leaner, needs-driven telecom service._x000D_
The company-specific opportunity that this project will address is one of productivity and scalability. The solution is to develop and implement of a B2B SAAS (software as a service) platform to provide automated telecom costs reduction analytics. Costek aims to lower its operational cost, improve its reach to global clients and create new jobs in Ontario, while helping its clients significantly lower the spend on their telecom cost., agreement title english : Development of a B2B SAAS platform to provide telecom costs reduction analytics, agreement title french : Development of a B2B SAAS platform to provide telecom costs reduction analytics, agreement number : CARD1, agreement value : 25000.0, agreement start date : 2017-07-12, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada