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09/11/2017

Great resource

The devices have helped poor countries leapfrog much more than landline telephony

17/10/2017

For our friends in captain an interesting article from the Daily Maverick to potentially assist with your drought. MASSS provides unconventional solutions to administration of membership and financial services benefits, and our solutions don't take a year and $10 million dollars to implement. Enjoy your day.

Every time South Africa suffers a serious drought, it doesn’t take long for someone to suggest that an iceberg should be towed from Antarctica to be tapped as a water source. It sounds laughably outlandish, but a company in the United Arab Emirates claims that it is undertaking the task in 2018 in o...

21/08/2017

Africa has some catching up to do with the speed of connectivity, if the continent is to leverage technology, as highlighted in this article by Yomi Kazeem.

It'll take more than a day to download a movie in African countries with the slowest internet speeds.

15/08/2017

GDR and POPI force companies to take greater care of data and protect people's privacy, both within the EU and South Africa. The good news is that MASSS offers benefit and membership administrators a platform that offers secure data administration that is fully encrypted, enabling high levels of data protection customized to your requirements. MASSSive protection from Africa's own ERP administration solution.

Besides being able to unlock the value of their data, businesses also have to remain compliant with the multiple pieces of data-focused legislation...

09/08/2017

South Africa remembers the 20000 women who marched against pass laws that restricted the movement of non-white people during apartheid in 1956. Today we celebrate women and in particular the next generation of young South African women making waves. This is Lizzie Majaivane Maelane's performance art piece ".Giving Taking".

28/07/2017

Kathleen Garlasco shares the value in going digital for P&C (property and casualty) insurers. This is by no means unique to this class of insurers or the US market. MASSS offers African insurers the ability to move into the digital age with systems that reduce manual processing, improve the customer service experience and keep all processing on one system .

Why can't insurers meet the speed and performance of a customer experience leader like Amazon? In a nutshell, siloed legacy systems.

20/07/2017

Viacom's recent study reveals that younger people trust politicians and religous leaders less, but remain happy. An interesting insight from the Daily Maverick and a prompt for leaders to take note. According to UNFPA 66% of Africans are under 35, so we ignore this market at our peril.

Young people's trust in key figures such as politicians and religious leaders has fallen sharply over the past five years but they remain largely happy, a global study said Thursday.

14/07/2017

For iPhone users some great advice for taking picture while travelling. Enjoy your weekend.

Learn what it’s like traveling light in Africa with only an iPhone 7 to capture your most important travel moments.

12/07/2017

Rick Braddock shares key steps in how businesses can transform to serve the on-demand economy in this great article. The biggest shift is to become client-centric. MASSS provides the technology and the means to enable the shift for financial services providers, group benefit administrators and community groups.

By 2025, leading enterprises will operate entirely on-demand. Here are three steps that will help you get there.

11/07/2017

A messy business. A R100 million "commission" payment? Really...

To clinch Transnet business, business software giant SAP agreed to pay 10% “sales commission” to a company controlled by the Guptas. The evidence suggests the company – a little-known outpost of the Gupta empire – was deliberately interposed to obscure Gupta involvement and to launder the proceeds t...

10/07/2017

Balancing regulatory controls and the innovation that fintech presents poses a number of challenges. This great article highlights some of these challenges raised at the recent "Fintech in Africa: Unpacking Risk and Regulation Conference".

So. who will capture the massive African unbanked market with fintech?

26/06/2017

Eid Mubarak to our clients, friends and family.