Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 37 | Page 11

NEWS Foodics chooses GetSwift to support delivery services GetSwift provides a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform to clients in the restaurant sector and many other industries to simplify deliveries by providing dispatching, order management and routing. The New York-based company also offers complementary services such as shift management to simplify worker scheduling and payroll. F oodics, a leading cloud-based point of sale (POS) operator for restaurants, has selected GetSwift Limited as its exclusive logistics platform to power home delivery across Egypt. “Following an extensive review process, we are very pleased to partner with GetSwift as we broaden our services to include delivery,” said Saleh Al-Ghamdi, Channel and Partnerships Manager at Foodics. The agreement will enable Foodics to efficiently help existing and new clients add another revenue stream with its new delivery service supported by GetSwift. Foodics provides its clients, which include major restaurant chains, coffee shops, food trucks, pizzerias and bakeries with cloud-based POS software within a convenient iPad interface. Foodics, which has processed over one billion orders, currently offers POS services to clients at over 7,000 locations. ///////////////// Orange opens new Orange Middle East and Africa headquarters in Morocco O range has officially inaugurated the Orange Middle East and Africa operational head office in Morocco, headquartered in Casablanca Finance City Tower (CFC). The building meets the most recent standards with international ‘LEED Gold’ certification from the World Green Building Council. With 900 m 2 over two floors, the Orange Middle East and Africa head office is at the cutting edge of technology with video-conference and telepresence rooms enabling the teams to remain connected to other countries in the region, as well as a Social Hub that supervises and monitors the digital activity of Orange and the industry in general in Africa and the Middle East in real-time. “I am very proud to inaugurate alongside Stephane Richard and in the presence of all the members of the Orange Group’s Executive Committee this new head office in Casablanca,” said Alioune Ndiaye, CEO www.intelligentcio.com Orange Middle East and Africa. “It sends a highly symbolic message, a turning point in the history of the Group that provides further proof of our desire to be even closer to our customers and to make Orange MEA the preferred multi-services operator for people in Africa and the Middle East. Orange is one of the rare international groups to have made the strategic choice, 20 years ago, to seek to develop in Africa and the Middle East. We have always been convinced of the immense potential of this region. In many ways, it can be seen as a model for digital transformation; mobile money is a great example of this.” INTELLIGENTCIO 11