NEWS
Vodafone to help in fight
against malnutrition in Africa
CA Technologies
ranked number
one for Delivery
Automation
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A Southern Africa has announced that
CA Technologies, a leader in business
automation software, is ranked number one
in Delivery Automation: ARO Application
Release Orchestration, based on revenue
in a recent Gartner report Market Share: IT
Operations, Worldwide, 2017.
Vodafone is
working with
Sanku-Project
Healthy Children
(Sanku-PHC) to
equip small flour
mills in Africa with
Internet of Things
(IoT) services
V
odafone has announced it is working
with Sanku-Project Healthy Children
(Sanku-PHC) to equip small flour mills
in Africa with Internet of Things (IoT)
services to provide fortified flour to
millions of people.
Two billion people around the world suffer
from micronutrient malnutrition. Fortified
flour battles against hidden hunger in
developing countries, which includes
pervasive issues of nutrition deficiency
such as birth defects, child development
issues and blindness.
Sanku-PHC is bringing real-time, data-
driven insights to 3,000 small scale
flour mills over the next four years,
with Vodafone’s global IoT SIM and
USB Connect technology helping to
significantly scale the programme and
improve its efficiency.
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Sanku-PHC has created a first-of-its-
kind technology – the ‘dosifier’ – which
enables small African flour mills in rural
areas to fortify flour with key nutrients
during the milling process, in a way
that is sustainable and cost-effective. In
the past, one Sanku worker could only
monitor 25 mills, which would fortify
flour to feed 125,000 people. Vodafone’s
IoT SIM now connects the same worker
to 100 mills, which will fortify flour for
500,000 people. The Sanku worker
receives alerts remotely and in real-time
when the mills run out of fortified flour or
require maintenance.
Vodafone and Sanku-PHC are rolling
out Vodafone’s global IoT SIM and USB
Connect technology to local flour mills in
Tanzania and Rwanda and will continue
to implement the technology across
Eastern and Southern Africa.
The Application Release Orchestration
(ARO) market continues to grow, with
Gartner revealing an estimated 37.5%
increase in 2017 – bringing the Delivery
Automation: ARO market size to US$282.6
million globally.
“We are incredibly proud to be ranked
number one. We believe the findings validate
our work and our ranking is the latest
addition to CA’s long list of recognitions and
accolades,” said Ashok Reddy, Group General
Manager, DevOps, CA Technologies.
“As enterprises are challenged with
delivering apps at pace with agile
development, increasingly data-driven
and AI Based, CA Continuous Delivery
Automation empowers them with the speed
and agility they need to execute upon their
digital transformation initiatives.”
Recently, CA also announced the latest
release of the CA Automic One Automation
platform, delivering new capabilities that
drive intelligent automation throughout
the enterprise.
CA automation products are designed
to bring today’s ‘Modern Software
Factory’ to life by accelerating digital
transformation and empowering modern
application delivery.
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