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ELARABY selects Riverbed to deliver superior experience on Microsoft Office 365
migration and access to workloads on Microsoft Azure .
ELARABY is a developer and manufacturer of consumer electronics and home appliances in Egypt , the Middle East and Africa and the company ’ s products are widely accepted in more than 60 countries .
Riverbed recently announced that
ELARABY Group , an Egyptian manufacturer and retailer of home electronics , has maximised the value of its Microsoft Office 365 investment by deploying Riverbed SaaS Accelerator . ELARABY has enabled a faster , more responsive Office 365 experience for its employees by reducing network latency and empowered its teams to be more productive and better equipped to serve customers by deploying Riverbed SaaS Accelerator .
In addition , ELARABY has also invested in Riverbed Cloud Accelerator to speed
The ELARABY business has more than 40,000 employees , 16 commercial and industrial enterprises , over 3,000 sales partners , 17 trade stores across Egypt and approximately 600 after-sales service centres . To ensure all locations and all employees are seamlessly connected , the company has migrated to Office 365 .
“ Our use of the cloud is significantly growing ,” said Medhat ElAraby , Vice President , ELARABY Group . “ We have already migrated one of our data centres to Azure and we are leveraging both PaaS and SaaS .”
Accelerex offers Ghanaian customers more digital payment options
Pan-African FinTech company , Accelerex
Ghana , has hit a new milestone , after being granted an enhanced Payment Service Provider ( PSP ) licence from the Bank of Ghana ( BoG ), under the Payment Systems and Services Act , 2019 ( Act 987 ). The latest development makes Accelerex Ghana the only FinTech organisation currently within the enhanced PSP category that provides physical e-payment devices , merchant acquiring , and agency banking solutions in Ghana .
Sebastian Yalley , Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director , Accelerex Ghana , said : “ Through our continuous product innovation and impeccable attention to customer needs , the company has gradually emerged as the financial technology company of choice for Ghanaian businesses .”
Yalley added that : “ At Accelerex , standardisation and compliance remain the bedrock of our operations across all subsidiaries in Africa . We believe that having this licence from the Bank of Ghana is a demonstration of our commitment to the Ghanaian market and serves as the foundation for rolling out simple , secure and convenient e-payment and digital transaction solutions for all customer segments . We intend to use this as a leverage to deepen our existing relationships with our bank clients .
“ In that same spirit of collaboration , we are open to working with other fintech companies to deliver superior value to customers .”
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