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Coca Cola Sales Team In Asia Gets Nokia Lumia

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[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

Nokia Lumia smartphones will be used by members of the sales team at Coca-Cola Company in Vietnam and Cambodia. The devices will be used for order processing, equipment validation and market execution improvement.

Javier Polit (Chief Information Officer, Bottling Investments Group, The Coca-Cola Company): Our collaboration with Nokia and Microsoft enables us to utilize our sales automation and market execution tools on two very progressive platforms.

Nokia Lumia smartphones are offering Coca-Cola employees full support for Microsoft  Office on the Microsoft Windows Phone 8 platform, and synchronization with Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and Office365 as well as integration with Outlook, says Nokia.

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