African Telcos’ Digital Transformation: Nexign partners Giza Systems

&NewLine;<table class&equals;"wp-block-table"><tbody><tr><td> Nexign&comma; &acy; part of LLC ICS Holding and leading Business Support Systems &lpar;BSS&rpar; as well as an Internet of Things &lpar;IoT&rpar; platform provider&comma; on July 17&comma; announced a value-added reseller &lpar;VAR&rpar; agreement with a Cairo-based&comma; leading systems integrator in the MEA region&comma; Giza Systems&period;<br> <br> The partnership&comma; according to a release by African Media Agency and made available to OpenLife&comma; is designed to bolster the abilities of both companies to deliver scalable&comma; agile network solutions&comma; to communications service providers &lpar;CSPs&rpar; across the Africa region&period; Together&comma; Nexign and Giza Systems will work with organisations to accelerate their journey from CSPs to digital service providers &lpar;DSPs&rpar;&period; &nbsp&semi;A 2017 survey by Ernst &amp&semi; Young on Digital Transformation for 2020 and Beyond revealed 71&percnt; of telecom operators worldwide to be placing their transformation from CSP to DSP at the top of the corporate agenda&period;<br> <br> Covering East and North Africa&comma; Giza Systems will resell Nexign products and provide professional services &&num;8211&semi; such as implementation and support &&num;8211&semi; as well as core systems-integration services&period; Offerings already in the pipeline&comma; that will be delivered by Giza Systems and Nexign to regional customers&comma; include a data-collection&comma; mediation and settlement solution&semi; revenue assurance and fraud-management&semi; billing systems&semi; number portability clearing house and gateway&semi; number-management systems&semi; order-fulfilment and service activation&semi; and product lifecycle management&period;<br> <br> &&num;8220&semi;Partnering with Nexign will allow us to help our customers replace their legacy BSS solutions to decrease operational costs&comma; reduce time-to-market and improve customer experience&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Waleed Darwish&comma; General Manager of the Enterprise Business Solutions Line of Business at Giza Systems&period; &&num;8220&semi;Our own capabilities&comma; fused with that of our partners in the areas of automated systems&comma; communication solutions and metering infrastructure&comma; enable us to develop integrated solutions that can work with&comma; and build on&comma; evolving technologies&comma; as well as adapt to the changing needs of our customers looking to achieve digital transformation&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br> <br> Nexign&&num;8217&semi;s differentiators are found in the company&&num;8217&semi;s future-proof portfolio of products and services&comma; and its track record of 120 successful projects with more than 50 CSPs around the world&comma; including a Tier 1 telecom operator with a 75-million-strong subscriber base&period; Nexign also brings its transformation experience to Africa&comma; with strong field sales and technical support teams based in the Middle East&period; Through the VAR partnership&comma; Giza Systems will be able to package Nexign&&num;8217&semi;s flagship product-Nexign Digital BSS&nbsp&semi;&&num;8211&semi;&nbsp&semi;as part of a market-leading network-solutions portfolio&comma; delivering to customers the ability to transform at will&comma; and serve an increasingly mercurial market&period;&nbsp&semi; <&sol;td><&sol;tr><&sol;tbody><&sol;table>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><br>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Systems integrators are integral to the transition stories we are&NewLine;witnessing daily across the region&comma; where telecom providers are making the&NewLine;change from CSPs to DSPs&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Ahmad Sayed&comma; Regional Head and VP of&NewLine;Sales&comma; Middle East and Africa at Nexign&period; &&num;8220&semi;The flexibility to cater to&NewLine;fluctuating consumer demands is appreciable&comma; once an organisation has made the&NewLine;transition&period; We are extremely delighted to have Giza Systems as our partners&semi;&NewLine;the company has been well-established in the MEA region for more than 45 years&NewLine;and has accrued a wealth of experience&comma; in BSS&comma; as a systems integrator&period; This&NewLine;coupled with the work they are already doing with several regional Tier 1 and&NewLine;Tier 2 telecom operators&comma; makes them an important partner for us as we continue&NewLine;to expand in the key Africa markets&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;