SovTech recently launched SovTech Services, a platform of premium digital services that can be conveniently purchased online and delivered in under 7 days. In the last 45 days, the platform has doubled its monthly active users, as well as doubled the number of Packages on offer to its customers, far exceeding management's expectations.

Applicable To All, But SME Focussed

While SovTech Services has been established under the main SovTech brand, it aims to assist SovTech’s smaller customers, focused on SME’s looking for easy procurement of digital services. Whilst the platform has doubled it’s monthly active users, it has also seen rapid growth on it’s sole social channel, twitter. With 1000 active followers after less than 45 days, it’s proof that there is interest around what is on offer.  SovTech Services plans to create a community of members who are not only loyal customers but share like-minded interests in topics such as Web & Mobile, Online Marketing, UX / UI and IT Solutions. With fresh weekly blog posts, followers are provided with the expertise of SovTech Services in the form of insightful content on how to improve their businesses digital initiatives, whether their company is small or large.

New digital services available to the public beef up the existing array of UI/UX and design-centric packages, as well as increase the offering around integration of legacy systems and more modern day cloud-based systems. Infographic design, Social media graphic design, banner ad design, logo design… Even an off the shelf 40 page Ebook package is now available. These packages all aim to enhance your businesses online presence. “We are committed to providing simple, reasonably priced products that every small to medium sized business needs.” Says Jamie Chennells, who heads up the SovTech Services Platform. “While we have a roadmap of what packages are set to come online, we also play close attention to what our customers are asking for; every now and again unplanned packages are added at the request of customers that will probably be of importance to other customers in the future, and we do our best to ensure that it’s easy to understand. And ready to be delivered in 7 days of course!” SovTech Services is set to continue increasing it's supply of digital services for the coming months, and also has a number of exciting new platform features that will be launched in the new year.   

About SovTech SovTech is a leading software development platform for businesses in Africa. Believing that rapid innovation in software, cloud and mobile technology will fundamentally revolutionise business for small, medium and large enterprises, SovTech’s platform offerings give businesses instant access to world class software development, leading cloud-based software-as-a-service products and a library of enterprise technology services. 

SovTech, a software development company and startup incubator based in Johannesburg, has launched a new branch to their business, SovTech Services, aimed at simplifying the procurement of digital services by companies in Africa.

The SovTech Services platform offers a diverse range of premium tech services that can be conveniently purchased online. “The Services platform has everything you need to propel your business into the stratosphere, and at a price that’s probably better than what’s out there in the market.” Says Jamie Chennells, SovTech’s CTO and head of SovTech Services. The main areas of focus of the services offered include Web & Mobile, IT & Business, Digital Marketing and UX/UI Design.The SovTech Services platform is a first in South Africa, as there are no other platforms locally that offer such a diverse range of digital services that can be immediately purchased online, with a predetermined pipeline to success that can be deployed in a matter of hours. “In the past 4 years through dealing with a wide variety of clients we’ve been able to streamline a set of digital products that every company needs.” says Chennells. The platform also allows the entire process, from consultation and purchase to final delivery of the digital service to take place within its walls.

This has obvious advantages over email in that there is a centralised communication stream for document transfer and objective management to take place, in which multiple parties from each side can engage. SovTech has partnered with different businesses with whom they’ve worked with extensively in the past to fulfill key and specialist roles. They don’t mark prices up in any way, and work with their clients as if they were on their clients’ teams. “We’re doing our best to remove the fear of purchasing these sorts of products via free online consultations across the spectrum of products,and we’re cherry picking the best providers to partner with along the way. Forus, the joy is in being able to work with our clients’ other service providers andknow that things are being done properly.” says Chennells.

SovTech’s goals areto have the top 10 providers of each Digital Service on their platform, and letthe client-focused review system help new users decide on who they would like their next digital project to be completed by.The team behind the platform has a number of helpful features on the horizon,the most notable of which is a chatbot aimed at empowering business ownersand people in key positions with the right knowledge on which they can actand perform their jobs more successfully. Through communication with thechatbot, users should be able to understand where they can best direct theirfocus in order to improve their competitiveness in the market. SovTech’s CEO, Gerald Neves, reveals the reason SovTech decided to launch the new platform, “More often than not we deal with clients that have burnttheir fingers through engagements with sub-par digital service providers. Our Services Platform aims to reduce the number of such instances, in a simple but effective manner, and raise the standard of digital service consumption in South Africa on a broad scale.”SovTech believes that technology will revolutionise businesses in Africa across every industry.

The introduction of the Services Platform complements SovTech’s vision to uplift social and economic value on a pan-African scale,through helping businesses achieve their goals using software.