Tellumat Telecoms, the communications division in the Tellumat Group, has boosted the efficiency of a leading South African BMW dealership by ‘mobilising’ its sales force with KIRK DECT telephony.
The solution was installed by Flexi Communications, an office equipment supplier, on-site at Pretoria-based Zambesi Auto. (Flexi is an authorised reseller and service partner for Tellumat, which [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Tellumat Telecoms mobilises flagship BMW dealership
June 29, 2009 – 4:41 pm
Are we live yet? Cement the success of your CRM implementation
June 29, 2009 – 4:39 pm
The moment a CRM project goes live should be an excuse for celebration: a milestone successfully reached, the culmination of weeks or months of effort. Yet all too often it slips by like an unwanted birthday, unnoticed and unheralded.
The reasons are often quite understandable – most projects suffer some degree of scope creep and the [...]
QlikView Ranks #1 for Ease of Use and Customer Loyalty in World’s Largest Independent Survey of Business Intelligence Users
June 29, 2009 – 4:35 pm
QlikTech, the world’s fastest-growing Business Intelligence (BI) software company, scored exceptionally well in the newly released BI Survey 8 – the world’s largest independent survey of Business
Intelligence and Performance
Management users conducted by the Business Application Research Center. The company ranked first in ease of use and customer loyalty, outperforming industry leaders SAP (Business Objects), Oracle [...]
Metacom delivers the right communications solution for FoschiniData
June 29, 2009 – 4:32 pm
FoschiniData, a division of the Foschini Group that supplies IT services to the group’s 6 trading divisions and over 1,500 stores, has deployed cellular backup communications from Metacom to 300 stores so far as part of its rollout of a new electronic payments platform.
“Integrating our payments platform means our customers get faster, more accurate [...]
How machine communication is boosting Africa’s development – Metacom
June 29, 2009 – 12:00 pm
Economic growth and development depends on infrastructure: on roads, power, water and communications. Yet in many places around Africa, much of this infrastructure is either ageing and in need of replacement, or was never developed in the first place.
There is one area, though, where African infrastructure is near-ubiquitous: GSM communications networks are growing faster than [...]
Six ways to protect your business from fraud – by Charles Pittaway, CEO of Netcash
June 26, 2009 – 9:32 am
Netcash handles payments, debit orders and credit card transactions for hundreds of clients every month. Founder and CEO Charles Pittaway shares the most important lessons learned about how to prevent and detect fraud.
When times are tough and the unscrupulous get desperate, it’s a safe bet that fraud attempts are going to increase. At Netcash we [...]
Property manager chooses Netcash for payments convenience
June 26, 2009 – 9:28 am
Property manager Eben Kleynhans of Times Two Properties says he uses third-party payments provider Netcash to pay creditors on behalf of his clients, rather than a bank, because Netcash offers greater ease of use and more personal service at lower cost.
“Times Two Properties manages about 1,500 units in 32 complexes, for which we collect [...]
Vox Orion keeps ADT online as Pretoria cables are cut
June 26, 2009 – 9:26 am
ADT, South Africa’s leading security company, kept operating through a major telecommunications outage earlier this month thanks to a cellular routing and backup solution from Vox Orion.
At least 23,000 phones in the Pretoria area went silent when Gautrain contractors accidentally severed a Telkom cable leaving businesses and residents in Menlyn Park, Lynwood and other areas [...]
Leading mining group saves 40% on voice calls with Vox Orion
June 26, 2009 – 9:16 am
Exxaro, South Africa’s largest black-controlled mining company, has significantly cut its telephony bill after installing Vox Orions’ Managed Voice Solution product at its head office and mines around South Africa.
Exxaro has a diverse minerals portfolio including coal, iron ore, mineral sands, base metals and industrial minerals. With 15 mines in South Africa and Namibia, [...]
Tshwane University of Technology keeps connected with SMS
June 26, 2009 – 9:15 am
Keeping in touch with staff and students has become a lot easier at The Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), thanks to a corporate SMS solution from Vox Orion.
“The system is set up so that it’s easy for users in different departments to send out alerts to all their students, for example if a lecture [...]
