Teamchat eyes big firms as clients

Instant messaging application for businesses, Teamchat, is targeting a customer base of few hundred big organisations in one year.
"We have about a few dozen customers that are active now and few hundred companies that are piloting. We expect few hundred organisations, each of them may have over 10,000 employees in one year as our customers," Teamchat Co-founder and CEO Beerud Sheth told PTI.
US-based Teamchat is open for revenue sharing agreement with telecom operators wherein they can act as resellers for the application.
Sheth said the company is in talks with some operators but refused to divulge the names.

Instant messaging apps are popular with individuals but enterprises find them hard to use in a business setting since the messaging apps limit group size and are overwhelming with an excessive number of messages, he said.
"People who have tried to use the apps in a business setting found it very difficult, so we saw an opportunity to solve that problem with the launch of Teamchat," he added.

Teamchat contains smart messages that automatically aggregate replies and update themselves. For example, when a user posts a poll in the group, the message updates itself automatically with the aggregate result when other group members reply to it.

"Teamchat makes enterprises truly agile by enabling instant, actionable communication across large organisations, without being overwhelmed by message clutter," Sheth said.
The basic application is free but there are some advanced features like integration, customisation, user management and group management, for which the charges are USD 2 per user per month.
Teamchat works on all mobile (Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Firefox etc) and web devices.