[vc_row][vc_column][qodef_separator position="center" color="#dddddd" width="100%" thickness="1px"][vc_empty_space height="40px"][vc_column_text css_animation="none" css=""] Digital Markets Are Growing Faster Than Your API Governance Every digital market runs on APIs. They connect partners, expose services, carry transactions, and increasingly...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]5G was sold as a network upgrade, but its return on investment is a monetization question. Faster speeds and lower latency do not pay for themselves. The value comes...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Every API that carries a billable event is another point where revenue can quietly leak away. As operators expose more capabilities to more partners, those risk points multiply. Revenue...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Most operators have no shortage of APIs. What they lack is a reliable way to convert API traffic into measurable, billable revenue. Partners call services thousands of times a...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation="none" css=""] Communications service providers (CSPs) in 2026 face an integration problem that legacy middleware was never built to solve. Real-time partner exchanges, 5G monetization workflows, AI agents acting as...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Searching for data integration software in 2026 lands most architects on the same three or four names: MuleSoft, Boomi, Informatica, and a hyperscaler-native option from AWS, Azure, or Google....
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Most enterprises talk about system integration as if it were a one-time project. Buy a tool, run an implementation, declare victory. It is one of the more persistent misconceptions...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Most enterprise architects approach the iPaaS vs ETL (integration platform as a service vs. Extract, Transform, Load) question as if it were a straightforward technology comparison. It is not....
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Enterprise integration is in the middle of its most significant architectural shift in twenty years, and most organizations are still discussing it in the vocabulary of the last shift....
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation="none" css=""] The global telecommunications sector is entering a structural inflection point. Revenue growth remains modest, even as infrastructure investment accelerates. Deloitte now classifies the 2026 global telecommunications industry as...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Telecom operators can’t evaluate API platforms in the same way digital startups do, and they shouldn’t. Because telecom operates across multi-region networks, enforces strict regulatory controls, and manages high...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Customer experience platforms have evolved well beyond simple telephony systems delivered via the cloud. They are now API-driven orchestration environments connecting CRM systems, AI agents, workforce management platforms, billing...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Enterprises often use the terms API management software and API management tool interchangeably. In smaller environments, that distinction may not matter, but in large-scale service-provider ecosystems, it is architectural. Tools...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Service providers no longer evaluate API platforms as middleware utilities. In 2026, APIs are revenue channels, ecosystem connectors, and product infrastructure. As such, the conversation around the best API...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation="none" css=""] Enterprise data strategies are undergoing a fundamental shift. For years, organizations focused on acquiring bigger platforms, faster databases, and more sophisticated analytics tools. Yet despite this investment, many...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]In 2026, more than 60% of enterprise workloads are running in cloud environments, with nearly all large organizations using multiple public cloud providers. This shift has fundamentally changed how...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Enterprise cloud data strategies often stall for a simple reason. Organizations invest heavily in platforms, but underestimate what it takes to make sure these platforms are reliable, secure, and...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]According to Fortune Business Insights, the global big data market is projected to reach $447.68 billion in 2026, up from approximately $394.7 billion in 2025. This growth reflects expanding...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Cloud adoption has grown steadily over the past decade, and data storage has followed. According to Forrester’s Data and Analytics Survey, organizations now store an average of 62% of...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation="none" css=""] Telecoms today cannot afford to treat subscription management and charging as just a back-office function. In 2026, it sits at the center of how digital service providers compete,...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Most voucher management systems were built for a simpler era. Create a code, assign a value, define an expiration date, and track redemption. For years, this model worked just...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]The cloud billing market presents itself as modern, agile, and built for speed. In practice, many so-called cloud billing platforms are little more than hosted versions of legacy systems....
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Revenue leakage in telecom rarely looks dramatic. There is no system outage or billing failure to trigger alarms. Instead, revenue disappears quietly during daily operations. It hides in rating...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Accelerating Telco to Techco transformation while protecting the core? Before exploring these challenges, it's essential to understand what is service management in the context of modern telecommunications operations- the...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation="none" css=""] Integration used to be a background concern. It was something IT teams handled quietly, often with custom scripts or point-to-point connections that worked well enough (until they suddenly...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]In most industries, integration failures are inconvenient. In telecommunications and aviation, they disrupt everything, get expensive quickly, and can be dangerous in some situations. In sectors that operate in areas...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Choosing an integration platform should be easier than it is. On paper, nearly every vendor claims to support APIs, cloud applications, data pipelines, security, governance, scalability, and a long...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Application sprawl is a real thing. It’s estimated that the average enterprise manages nearly 900 different applications and huge pools of data, yet more than half aren’t integrated or...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]MuleSoft and Boomi are well-known integration platforms, particularly in large enterprise environments. Users say they like the integration capability, but don’t like how long it takes, the complexity, and...
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[vc_row el_id="about"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="40px"][vc_row_inner content_width="grid"][vc_column_inner width="1/6"][vc_single_image image="8083" img_size="full" alignment="center" css_animation="none"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="5/6"][vc_column_text css_animation="none"] About the author Philip Stander [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text css_animation="none"]Philip Stander has been in the ICT industry since 1993 in various software architectural...
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In 2002, our founders started Globetom with a vision and a dream. Today, we’re proud to announce the next exciting chapter in our journey as Globetom South Africa officially move into...
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Systems integrator Globetom has become the only South African company - and by far the smallest in terms of headcount - to achieve TM Forum Diamond Certification Status for its...
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Globetom, a South African-founded Systems Integrator with offices in South Africa and the USA, has partnered with the Satec Group, a Spanish Systems Integrator, and several other key Telecommunications market...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] See our Open APIs in action We are excited to announce our participation in Digital Transformation World in Copenhagen, June 18th - 20th. If your business is committed to achieving effortless...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Alvatross in conversation with Philip Stander on the ODA’s role in ongoing and future projects Originally published on www.alvatross.io Welcome to our exclusive interview with Philip Stander, CEO at Globetom. Once again,...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We are excited to be participating as an exhibitor at the NTCA Annual RTIME conference RTIME is the largest annual event for all rural broadband carriers across North America. Come visit...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] See our Open APIs in action We are excited to announce our participation in Digital Transformation World in Copenhagen, September 19th- 21st. If your business is committed to achieving effortless and...
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Creating Digitally Integrated Public Ecosystems The next evolution of Smart Cities will place increased focus on Livability, Workability, and Sustainability. Cities that engage technology to support these goals will provide faster and...
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Predictive Analytics is fast reaching a plateau of productivity in the Hype Cycle for Data Science and Machine Learning (Gartner). As the primary market forces of Globalisation, Digitisation and Deregulation...
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See our Open APIs in action We're excited to be part of Digital Transformation World in Copenhagen. If your business strives to automatically and seamlessly integrate platforms, integrate catalogs, manage balances,...
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White Paper | Author: Philip Stander This paper examines the demand for scale and optimal latency of iPaaS platforms to support cloud-native and hybrid-cloud integrated ecosystems in integrated enterprise ecosystems that...
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Buzz Lynx delivers a one-stop customer communication platform with integrated journeys for you to track the quality of your customer communication and engagement. The Buzz Lynx RESTful Web Service API enables...
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In these unprecedented times, Enterprise Risk Management functions are placing sharp focus on identifying and mitigating risk by leveraging system integrations, generating trusted data, expanding process automation, and producing real-time...
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Businesses invest significant resources in marketing campaigns, only to discover their efforts often have minimal results. A major reason for this is often that customer information is fragmented across the...
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Customers remain the most important asset in any business. Protecting your customer base is critical with extracting customer behavioral data insights being a crucial strategy to promote customer loyalty. Is...
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COVID has accelerated the adoption of data-led decision making within business domains. Chief Data Officers must collect and manage their organization’s information assets while also supporting the rapidly growing self-service...
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The TM Forum - a global industry association driving digital transformation through collaboration - has announced their launch of a worldwide open laboratory for plug-and-play software development to prove the...
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COVID 19 has caused a further escalation in the adoption of mobile money in Africa because of the move towards contactless payments and limited access to traditional financial services. These...
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Microsoft, Google, Airbnb and Uber are examples of organizations that successfully enabled platform-based ecosystems through digital enablement of multiple stakeholders on a single platform to commercially transact. While the telecommunication...
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As organisations transition towards edge computing and cloud-based solutions, data architectures for product catalogues and customer master data management (MDM) are being moved closer to experience platform layers enabling omnichannel...
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Organisations are evaluating the establishment and participation in digital ecosystems as part of their digital strategies globally. Digital ecosystems are defined as “..how advanced technologies change the way value is...
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COVID 19 caused major shifts in business models nationally and internationally, with in some cases, devastating consequences and in other cases major opportunities for companies to transition towards demand-based strategies...
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The rise of digital ecosystems and new innovative business models requires the standardisation of data for advanced data analytics crossing organisational boundaries, as well as standard API adoption. These two...
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Globetom, a locally based international IT company, recently appointed five young black women as part of the Youth Employment service Yes4Youth, a programme which helps young unemployed people gain work...
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API adoption and metadata standards can prove to be resource intensive and costly, in spite of the promise of scalability, agility, and speed to market benefits in the long term. Globetom...
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Globetom enables companies to accelerate their Digital Transformation with our Integration Platform as a Service offering. The solution utilises standard open APIs for ecosystem integration at scale, including mobile wallets,...
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Prepared by John Brooks, CEO Americas, Globetom LLC If you were to construct an image of one of your customers today, as they relate to your business, what would that image...
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This is a featured article from CANTO's publication, Cancion, written by John Brooks, CEO of Globetom Americas. Every region around the globe has been affected by the pandemic, each with their...
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[embed]https://vimeo.com/429717859[/embed] South African-based technology company, Globetom, has established itself as a differentiating contributor in the vital arena of iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service), locally and internationally. According to Gartner, a...
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The world is scurrying towards digitisation, and this race is now even more prevalent with the COVID-19 pandemic that is a major disruptive force. The technology world is opening up...
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As a further extension of its globalisation strategy, Globetom recently appointed Dr Sonja Fourie as an affiliate Non-Executive Director of Globetom International. Sonja adds strategic leadership to further Globetom's objective...
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Globetom, an agile business technology company, and Radixx International, an airline merchandising and distribution platform business, have partnered to create Radixx Insight, an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)...
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The Voucher Management System handles all aspects of prepaid recharge vouchers Prepaid payment models form an important part of traditional telecommunications business models especially in developing markets. Significant revenues are also...
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An end-to-end dealer management solution providing the ability and visibility to manage complex dealer hierachies Revenue Weaver’s dealer management solution enables you and your distribution network to gain agility and competitive...
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Manage all of your donations The Revenue Weaver Donation Management solution helps your charity to manage all of your donation collections. You can manage all of your donors and receive...
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Manage your subscription business models The Revenue Weaver Subscription Billing solution helps your businesses to manage your subscription business models. You can manage all of your customers and receive revenue...
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Open APIs for Digital Services Globetom's CEO, Philip Stander, will be presenting at SATNAC 2019, the Southern Africa Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference hosted by Telkom. Philip will be presenting on...
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From the 21st to the 24th of July 2019, the Globetom team will be attending the 35th Annual CANTO Conference and Trade Exhibition in Trinidad. Globetom's Group CEO, Philip Stander,...
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From the 3-4th of July 2019, the Globetom team will be attending Smart Cities Africa Summit 2019, Johannesburg, South Africa. The team will be attending the event and Globetom's CEO...
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The Globetom team is excited to be attending and participating in the TM Forum Digital Transformation World conference 2019 in Nice, France. Globetom is participating in two catalysts and Globetom's...
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In recognition of SEACOM licensing of Globetom’s Orcha platform as their enterprise integration platform, Globetom has symbolically adopted an orca called Echo from the Southern Resident Community in the Pacific...
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The Globetom team will be in Kuala Lumpur for Digital Transformation Asia 2018 from the 13th-15th November. The team is collaborating with various partners and sponsors of the Connected Citizens...
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TM Forum’s award recognizes the Catalyst teams who have demonstrated outstanding work in solving real-world challenges or making future opportunities a reality Globetom announced that both its Catalyst projects, Phygital Store...
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The Blockchain technology which enables cryptocurrency has much greater worth than the monetary value of the cryptocurrency itself. Using the technology, which creates a distributed ledger, can provide transparency, security...
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Online shopping has completely altered the shopping experience and the ‘traditional’ physical store is changing. The new obstacle for retailers and network operators? To turn potential clientele from visitors into...
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Globetom is participating in two catalyst projects that will be showcased at the TM Forum's Digital Transformation World (DTW) congress in Nice from 16 to 18 May 2018. Globetom's TM Forum...
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The need for incumbent Communication Service Providers to transform rapidly to grab a piece of the Over-the-Top market and become Digital Service Providers is no longer an initiative, but a...
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Globetom is gearing up for its participation in TM Forum Live!, which is being held in Nice, France from 15 to 18 May. Globetom is participating in a Catalyst project called...
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The wholesale distribution margin squeeze is expected to increase, particularly as the Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) in the GSM market declines and competition increases. This is according to the cloud...
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Examining the intersection between Loyalty Platforms and Loyalty Programmes, RESTful APIs and modern Loyalty Programne ecosystems. Loyalty programmes have become a commodity to the extent that some form of a rewards...
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DGIT Systems and Globetom announce a strategic partnership to deliver a best-in-class solution to the South African Development Community area. DGIT Systems appointed Globetom as its partner for the SADC (Southern African...
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Globetom has taken the leadership role in the development of the TM Forum Loyalty Management API as part of its ongoing program for communications industry standardisation through RESTful Web Service...
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As a result of economic slowdown, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are feeling distribution margin squeeze and are challenged to maintain profitability while their margins are declining. The added pressure of...
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Globetom today announced that it has extended its Telecommunications Industry reach with GP3, its flagship convergent billing and prepaid platform. Globetom has signed a five-year agreement with Spark New Zealand, previously...
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Globetom, has extended the functionality of well-known golfing portal www.lastminutegolf.co.za with the addition of an HTML 5-based mobile application that allows for enhanced accessibility and usability. lastminutegolf was developed by Globetom...
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Globetom has achieved another milestone in local technology innovation with its GP3 cloud-based charging and fulfilment product. GP3, developed in South Africa, is now being used by Bayo Trading Zambia,...
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The commercial success of the GP3 platform which was initially developed under DTISPII funding was recently showcased as part of Government support for innovation in the Department of Trade and...
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Huawei has launched its Digital inCloud Eastern and Southern Africa regional centre and announced that two South African service providers have already signed up to offer their apps to a...
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Globetom has provided an innovative solution for Klein Karoo Seed Marketing (KKSM) Zambia, an Agribonus client, to assist them in collecting customer information in the informal, prepaid market they operate...
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Low-cost airline Mango has invested in locally developed middleware technology from Globetom, a South African company specialising in mission-critical software used in various IT Industry Verticals. Mango elected Globetom’s GEF middleware...
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It’s unusual for a local software developer to replace legacy middleware with locally developed products - yet that is exactly what Globetom did. One of SA’s top network providers took the decision...
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Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies announced the names of companies, projects and individuals that will vie for top honours in the DTI Technology Awards 2013. The awards recognise individuals and...
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Globetom's management announced that the company has restructured its business as a result of the exit of its BEE partners and to better align the business with its product and...
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Globetom has been awarded an SPII grant for innovation under the Support Programme for Industrial Innovation (SPII) for the construction of a comprehensive convergent prepaid platform. This programme is administered...
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Globetom announced that it will provide comprehensive solution support for Oracle database server installations on Red Hat Advanced Server as part of its newly established Red Hat Support unit. Globetom, as...
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Globetom announced that it has concluded its Red Hat Advanced Partner Agreement with Red Hat Inc. The partnership is a very important step in Globetom's open source drive and its initiatives...
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Globetom announced the official launch of a spin-off e-commerce business based on software technology that was designed and developed in its entirety by Globetom. Globetom recently completed development and testing of...
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Globetom announced that it has successfully rolled out its Java-based Network Element Management technology into three African countries for the management of the satellite transmission equipment used by GSM operators...
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Globetom announced today its conclusion of a distributor agreement with Monfox for the distribution and use of its DynamicTMN toolkit for the management of telecoms networks using ITU-T standards-based protocols. With...
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Subscribers to MTN's prepaid service will experience even faster and more reliable benefits from the cellular provider following the implementation of an Oracle-based solution developed by Globetom. MTN's prepaid system runs...
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