Exploring what companies should be looking for when it comes to effective tools to get the best results from their mobile voice spend. Africa is often called the mobile continent, and with good reason. Individuals and businesses see mobile as a way to overcome the lack of fixed-line infrastructure and leapfrog directly into the 21st […]
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Omnia Group deploys Apex BI’s Clarity Technology Expense Management platform The Omnia Group, a diversified chemicals group that supplies chemicals and specialised services and solutions for the agriculture, mining and chemical application industries, has deployed Apex BI’s Technology Expense Management (TEM) platform, Clarity, which delivers detailed insights across the entire group through to user level. The meta
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Technology expense management can be used to create an accountability culture on all sides of the business landscape: vendor, management and user. It’s no secret that the role of IT in the enterprise has evolved from being the back-office provider of IT services and technology, to the forefront of technology services adoption. Embracing new technologies
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MiX Telematics Africa and Apex BI are together demonstrating how it is possible to manage an ever-expanding Internet of Things (IoT) environment. The IoT sector is much hyped but few realise that one of the most challenging aspects of a world of connected devices is how to manage the sprawling IT network it will create.
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Virgin Active Kicks Technology Expenditure into Touch with Apex BI Virgin Active South Africa (VASA) has revealed how it has taken control of its technology expense management (TEM) through its partnership with TEM specialist, Apex BI. Virgin Active – one of the oldest and arguably the most successful Health Club chains in South Africa, took
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Neil Buckley, MD of Apex BI, lifts the lid on the best kept secret of success in business: taking charge of technology expense sprawl * Adding a multitude of Internet of things (IOT) devices and cloud-based as-a-service charges to already sprawling ICT environments will add further complexity to the management of technology – and its
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Nine out of Ten new customer engagements involve this common question. “How much money will our organisation save by deploying your Technology Expense Management [TEM] platform and services?” Now, whilst we can answer that question to within a certain degree of accuracy once we have performed our due diligence, it’s not the only factor that
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Managing and controlling a few dozen or a few hundred GSM SIM’s can be tricky but managing a few thousand or even a few hundred thousand SIM’s becomes almost impossible without a purpose built tool. When it comes to large scale GSM environments, it doesn’t take much for things to start spiralling out of control.
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Globally, “telecom expenses represent a massive portion of the IT budget, with Gartner forecasting $1.6 trillion in telecom expenses with a 1.6% growth rate last year.” Modern day Telecom Reporting solutions add significantly more value than just providing bright, fancy dashboards for management to include in the monthly board pack. The solutions have evolved significantly
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We live in a technological melting pot of products, services, technologies and providers, each of which having been specifically designed to address specific “gaps” relating to enterprise ICT requirements. This abundance of choice [and confusion] can be exceptionally daunting and often results in a lack of action because of fear of change due to the
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