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iPaaS Market Segmentation and User Personas

September 17, 2025

[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="fadeIn"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="5/6"][vc_column_text css_animation="fadeIn"] About the author Philip Stander [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text css_animation="fadeIn"]Philip Stander has been in the ICT industry since 1993 in various software architectural...

Globetom South Africa has moved to a new home

June 27, 2025

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 we officially move into our new...

Globetom joins global giants on TM Forum Open API diamond leaderboard

October 22, 2024

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...

Globetom lands key BSS/OSS transformation project role with European Partners

October 22, 2024

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...

Globetom at Digital Transformation World 2024

May 22, 2024

[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...

ODA Talks: The ODA’s role in ongoing and future projects

February 26, 2024

[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,...

Globetom at RTIME 2024

January 24, 2024

[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...

Globetom at Digital Transformation World 2023

September 7, 2023

[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...

City as a Platform

February 2, 2023

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...

The Growing Importance of Predictive Analytics

January 13, 2023

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...

Globetom at Digital Transformation World 2022

August 28, 2022

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,...

Scale and Optimal Latency Considerations for iPaaS Platforms

July 21, 2022

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...

Get started with the Buzz Lynx API

June 27, 2022

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...

Enabling your Finance and Risk Managers with an integrated data toolset

June 30, 2021

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...

Establishing a customer data science platform to unlock personalized experiences

June 14, 2021

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...

The Chief Data Officer as Lead Innovator – Driving intelligence from Customer Data

May 11, 2021

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...

Placing the Chief Data Officer at the center of data-led innovation in the organization

April 13, 2021

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...

Globetom becomes a founding member of the TM Forum Open Digital Lab

February 10, 2021

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...

Using TM Forum shipment tracking APIs to drive mobile money e-commerce and digital inclusion in Africa

February 9, 2021

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...

Containerised deployment of TM Forum Open APIs

February 3, 2021

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...

Enabling the Offer Eligibility and Product Catalogue TM Forum standard APIs at Tier 1 Telcos

January 12, 2021

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...

How to approach the integration of product catalogues in ecosystems

December 17, 2020

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...

Value of TM Forum Open APIs across industry verticals

December 11, 2020

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...

The two new leading digital ecosystem enablers: API adoption and analytics big data model standardisation

November 19, 2020

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...

Globetom and Yes4Youth changing lives by creating new IT jobs

November 10, 2020

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...

Globetom showcasing ease of API adoption and metadata standardisation at DTW 2020

October 8, 2020

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...

Digital Transformation in a matter of weeks

August 23, 2020

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,...

The increasing demand for Master Data Management

August 20, 2020

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...

Are you thinking and planning big enough after COVID-19?

August 17, 2020

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...

Poised for Growth: Integration Platform Services is Key

June 14, 2020

[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...

Global pandemic provides impetus for faster digital transformation

April 23, 2020

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...

Globetom International appoints Dr Sonja Fourie to its Board of Directors

November 28, 2019

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...

Globetom, Radixx give airlines AI-based customer insights

November 11, 2019

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)...

Prepaid Management and Distribution: Voucher Management

October 12, 2019

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...

Prepaid Management and Distribution: Dealer Management

October 11, 2019

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...

Subscription Billing: Donation Management

October 10, 2019

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...

Subscription Billing

October 9, 2019

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...

Globetom’s CEO Presents at SATNAC 2019

September 2, 2019

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...

Globetom at CANTO 2019

July 17, 2019

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,...

Globetom at Smart Cities Africa Summit 2019

July 1, 2019

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...

Globetom at Digital Transformation World 2019

May 1, 2019

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...

Orcha Makes a Splash at SEACOM

March 19, 2019

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...

Globetom at TM Forum Digital Transformation Asia 2018

November 13, 2018

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...

Globetom Wins Two Catalyst Awards at Digital Transformation World 2018

June 20, 2018

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...

Blockchain as a Catalyst for Smart Cities

May 8, 2018

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...

Introducing the Phygital Store

April 26, 2018

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...

Visit Globetom’s Catalyst Projects at Digital Transformation World

March 12, 2018

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...

Digital Services Journey

June 22, 2017

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...

Globetom gears up for TM Forum Live! 2017

May 11, 2017

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...

Globetom Readies to Take on Nigeria

May 8, 2017

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...

Using Loyalty Programmes as a Customer Centricity Aid

April 12, 2017

Examining the intersection between Loyalty Platforms and Programmes, RESTful APIs and modern Loyalty Program ecosystems. Loyalty programmes have become a commodity to the extent that some form of a rewards programme...

DGIT Systems and Globetom Announce a Strategic Partnership

February 21, 2017

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...

Globetom Leads Contribution to TM Forum’s Loyalty Management Open API

December 18, 2016

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...

Electronic Prepaid Distribution – A Worthwhile Investment

March 16, 2016

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...

Spark New Zealand Chooses Globetom Convergent Billing Platform

March 4, 2016

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...

Lastminutegolf.co.za Goes Mobile Thanks to Globetom

March 4, 2016

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...

Globetom Enables International IML Group to Penetrate the Zambian Market

March 4, 2016

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,...

GP3 Showcased in the DTI Parliamentary Annual Report

March 4, 2016

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...

Globetom Joins Huawei at Launch of Digital inCloud in Africa

March 4, 2016

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...

Globetom Provides Klein Karoo with Innovative Marketing Solution

March 4, 2016

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...

Mango Goes Proudly South African – Partners with Globetom

March 4, 2016

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...

Globetom Replaces Oracle Tuxedo Platform for Top Network Provider

February 12, 2016

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...

Globetom Announced a Finalist in the DTI Technology Awards 2013

February 12, 2013

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...

Globetom BEE Partners Exit and Company Immediately Attracts New Shareholders

March 1, 2011

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...

Globetom Wins SPII Grant to Develop Convergent Prepaid Platform

February 1, 2011

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...

Globetom to Offer Oracle, Red Hat Support for Oracle Database Technology

November 1, 2010

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...

Globetom becomes Red Hat Advanced Business Partner

September 1, 2010

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...

Globetom Launches GolfTimeSA e-Commerce Business for Online Golf Bookings

June 1, 2010

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...

Globetom Rolls Out @EMS

February 1, 2010

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...

Globetom Secures Monfox Agency

January 1, 2010

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...

MTN’s Prepaid Value Added Services Now Running Faster and More Reliably

March 1, 2009

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...

Globetom Completes Server Conversion

February 1, 2009

Globetom announced it has successfully converted a large, mission-critical PA-RISC processor-based infrastructure with an Intel-XEON-based server farm. The customer, who may not be disclosed owing to the strategic nature of the...

Globetom Launches Database Solution

January 1, 2009

Centurion-based Globetom today announced the launch of Ada-My-ND, a product that fills a critical gap in the market by making it possible to move the substantial Adabas-C database deployments used...

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