Cape Town, May 16: FuseForward, a provider of cloud and analytic solutions, is demonstrating the benefits real-time analytics can deliver to African utilities during the African Utility Week conference and exhibition.

Held from 14-16 May in Cape Town, South Africa, African Utility Week is the leading conference for African power, energy and water professionals. FuseForward’s Founder and CEO, Mark Damm, is excited about the opportunity to provide analytic solutions that shed light on the challenges faced by utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa.

“Utilities in Africa face a range of issues, many of which affect their ability to meet basic demands for water and electricity,” says Mark. “We know that the availability of reliable and complete data is critical in order for utilities to find solutions to their challenges.

Data from IoT devices and smart meters can help, but developing the technology required to ingest, store and make sense of this information is a barrier for many resource-strapped utilities.” FuseForward’s cloud platform provides a secure, reliable way for utilities to store, aggregate and analyze data from their IoT and smart devices, delivering the comprehensive performance information utilities need within a single interface.

Example utility challenges that FuseForward can address include:

• Demand management: Data from devices and external sources can be used to predict peak electricity or water usage times, enabling better management of resources.
• Preventative maintenance: Deteriorating infrastructure can often be the cause of outages in Sub-Saharan Africa.

By analyzing sensor data from equipment and infrastructure, utilities can obtain real-time maintenance alerts, preventing outages before they occur.

With the event set to close today, Mark is optimistic about the future for the industry, and the role FuseForward can play. “We’ve had a chance to hear first-hand about the challenges facing utilities and are looking forward to the opportunity to help solve them. Not only do analytic solutions in this sector have the ability to provide business improvements for utilities, they also play a role in improving the delivery of power and water across Sub-Saharan Africa—and that’s something our team is very enthusiastic about!”

About FuseForward
FuseForward is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner and Select Consulting Partner that provides secure cloud environments and analytic solutions for critical infrastructure providers and public agencies. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, we serve customers around the world from our offices in South Africa, Europe and North America.

For more information visit www.fuseforward.com

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Cape Town, South Africa. September 2018

Twenty57, an experienced provider in enterprise software, is shipping the newest version of Linx, its flagship product. Linx, a leading low code software for automation of back-office IT tasks, has added a variety of features that further enable IT professionals to quickly automate projects, including scheduling, monitoring and integrating IT systems, without complicated programming.

"Linx and its drag-and-drop methodology offers IT professionals the power of assembling complex automation tasks without writing a single line of code," said Gawie Yssel, CTO of Twenty57. "Our customers find that they can develop automated tasks faster than ever before and just as important, maintain those tasks more affordably."Among the major elements of the release is the unveiling of a suite of AWS (Amazon Web Services) plugins. The new suite of AWS plugins makes it easier for users to develop applications that interact with the Amazon Web Services API. The new plugins provide access to several AWS solutions including the most popular services; Amazon Simple Storage Service (s3) cloud storage, Amazon EC2 and Amazon Simple Notification Service.

The plugins allow for faster AWS development, saving time, cutting down costs, leaving the user to focus on the businesses process rather than be tied down in the development grind of API code. Linx help users users effortlessly build automated processes and incorporate their development into existing AWS services, all without writing a line of code. Yssel explains “Our new suite of AWS plugins makes it easier to develop and deploy applications using Amazon Web Services. With the AWS plugins, you'll be able to get started faster and be more productive when building, integrating or automating AWS applications”.

The new version is available can be downloaded for free at linx.software/download

About LinxLinx is a comprehensive integration and business process automation tool with a wide range of connectors to external systems.

Linx is developed Twenty57.Founded in 2001, Twenty57 is a leading provider of investment and financial software, the company provides a wide range of industrial strength applications to improve integration, business process management automation, reconciliation and reporting. Twenty57 is headquartered in Mauritius , with offices in South Africa and India.For more information, visit www.twenty57.com or https://linx.software