This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Boominathan Shanmugam of Prodapt

Service providers in the Connectedness industry receive intercarrier invoices worth over USD 1.2 billion annually and are challenged with more than 25% revenue blockage due to disputes. Managing disputes and improving trust in intercarrier settlements is challenging for service providers. The traditional dispute analysis and resolution approaches are inefficient, delaying settlements … [visit site to read more]

iColo, a Kenyan carrier-neutral data centre provider with campuses in Mombasa and Nairobi, says it has opened its first data centre in Mozambique.

The launch of the MPM1 data centre on Africa’s southeast coast expands iColo’s footprint and supports the growing connectivity needs of the eastern coast of Africa, driven, inevitably, by the growth of subsea cables.

The 9,500 square metre campus is located in Maputo. MPM1 provides approximately 350 square metres of rentable space, equivalent to approximately 80 racks in the first phase of development. It will be able to accommodate further upgrades.

Mozambique is connected to two subsea cables, with a third cable system, 2Africa, landing in Mozambique in February this year. iColo says its Maputo facility will be the local landing point for critical equipment for the 2Africa cable system.

iColo is part of Digital Realty, the largest global provider of cloud and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions.

The enhanced connectivity in Maputo is expected to improve cloud and content accessibility, increase digitisation, improve the online experience for local businesses and consumers and support a more inclusive digital society through Digital Realty’s global data centre platform, PlatformDIGITAL.

The Data Centre Dynamics website quotes Jose Almeida, General Manager, iColo Mozambique, as saying: “This new data centre is a significant milestone in the development of the internet in Mozambique, bringing high-quality, reliable colocation solutions with a longstanding record of operational excellence. This highly connected campus will provide a bedrock for strong data growth in the country and on the entire African continent.”

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Fiber in South America has had a tendency to come from the coasts and move inland. However, Millicom, which provides services in Latin America via the TIGO brand, has plans to change that up somewhat and build some transcontinental fiber. … [visit site to read more]

Global analytics software provider FICO has partnered with FPG Technologies & Solutions to bring advanced decision management and analytics tools to companies across West Africa.

“West African companies are engaged in digital transformation initiatives that have gotten extra momentum from the pandemic,” said Rex Mafiana, CEO of FlexiP Group, a leading enterprise IT solutions provider and systems integrator. “Across all industries, it’s critical to be able to automate more decisions, to change strategies faster, and to increase efficiency. FICO has world-class tools that can help our customers be more competitive.”

FPG will sell, implement and support these tools – including FICO Blaze Advisor decision rules management system and FICO Xpress Optimization, which allow businesses to automate high-volume decisions, rapidly change strategies and leverage advanced analytics to improve performance.

As FICO’s flagship rules authoring solution, FICO Blaze Advisor decision rules management system maximizes control over high-volume operational decisions. Blaze Advisor provides businesses across multiple industries with a scalable solution that delivers unprecedented agility and actionability for smarter, transparent, and better business decisions.

FICO Xpress Optimization allows businesses to build, deploy and use optimization solutions that crunch through millions of potential scenarios to find the ideal solution. Standard capabilities include scalable high-performance solvers and algorithms, flexible modeling environments, rapid application development, comparative scenario analysis and reporting capabilities, for on-premises and cloud installations.

“Rules management and mathematical optimization are the core technologies for better decisions,” said Mark Farmer, who manages partner relationships for FICO in EMEA. “FPG has deep domain expertise in multiple industries in West Africa, and can help businesses there use these technologies to transform their performance.”