NEWS
Andela officials
discuss building
capacities
of software
developers
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mr Talaat, Egypt’s Minister of
Communications and Information
Technology, has received a delegation from
Andela – a specialised company in building
the capabilities of software developers in the
African continent.
Routed signs expansion
agreement for subscription
business software
Routed has signed an expansion
agreement to take further advantage
of subscription business management
software from Ubersmith
The delegation was headed by Andela
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer
Christina Sass and was attended by Maha
Rashad, the Information Technology
Industry Development Agency (ITIDA),
and Sabrina Roshan, Andela-Director of
Expansion Strategy.
During the meeting, Talaat welcomed the
executive steps taken by the company
towards setting up a headquarters in Egypt
in cooperation with ITIDA to prepare
Egyptian calibers in the field of software and
IT services, thus providing job opportunities
for them at various international companies.
He highlighted Egypt’s interest in supporting
African youth to enable them to enter
national and international markets and
polishing their skills in the ICT field. During
the meeting, the two sides reviewed the
efforts and initiatives of the Ministry
of Communications and Information
Technology (MCIT) and its affiliates in
building capacities of young people and
polishing their skills. These initiatives entail
the presidential initiative which aims to train
more than 10,000 Egyptian and African
young people on the development of digital
applications and games and establish about
100 African start-ups.
R
outed, a vendor-neutral cloud
infrastructure provider in South Africa,
has signed an expansion agreement to
take further advantage of subscription
business management software from
Ubersmith, to further enable its fast-
paced growth.
The company is a model of efficiency
using the Ubersmith software suite to
automate pay-per-use billing to reduce
the chance of mistakes in a manual
process, as well as centralise customer
information including client contracts. It
bills clients on a pay-per-use model and
sells its solutions through partners, such
as Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and
Managed Service Providers (MSPs).
and the business model we have while
integrating well with other applications
and infrastructure, and remaining open
for the future as needed,” said Andrew
Cruise, Managing Director at Routed.
“It makes our lives easier, helping our
people in billing, customer service and
sales work efficiently to handle the growth
today and prepare for the scalability needs
of our business tomorrow.”
Ubersmith provides the flexibility for
Routed to efficiently bill large enterprises
as well as smaller MSPs. In addition,
Routed’s customers use the Ubersmith
software Client Portal for easy access to
information on the services they’re using.
“The Ubersmith software is ideal for
the kind of subscription billing we do
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INTELLIGENTCIO
Andrew Cruise, Managing Director
at Routed
www.intelligentcio.com