Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 26 | Page 13

Payment24 underpins revolutionary new BP FleetMove offer One Channel announces new features for Acumatica B P and Masana Petroleum Solutions are set to revolutionise commercial fuel payment and management for their customers, with the launch of the BP FleetMove solution built on the advanced Payment24 platform. Payment24, an advanced international fuel payment system, is the backbone of two new flagship fuel payment and fuel management offerings for BP and Masana commercial customers. “This will be the most unique offering by a petroleum company in the South African market,” said Payment 24 joint CEO Shadab Rahil. “With the new platform, BP and Masana can offer commercial customers automatic vehicle and driver identification to authorise payments, which eliminates the need for equipment installation and allows customers to fill up at any pump at any BP service station across the country.” Payment24’s advanced fleet fuel management, mobile fuel payment, integrated fuel monitoring and fleet telematics solutions are in use across the continent – from the UN headquarters in Kenya through to a presence in Ghana and fuel stations across Namibia. Harnessing cloud-based and mobile management tools, with advanced fleet card, cardless or mobile payment technologies, Payment24 solutions support intelligent and cost-effective fleet fuel management and payments. Work is underway on new telematics, vehicle tracking and driver behaviour features, as well as expansion in the pipeline to new markets in Botswana, Mozambique and Zambia later this year. L eading cloud ERP solutions provider One Channel has announced some exciting new features to expect in the next release of Acumatica’s newest product, called Acumatica 2019 R1. The latest release has substantial advances in usability, order management and inventory, financials, project accounting, and CRM. There are also industry- specific features and improvements for Construction Edition, Manufacturing Edition, and Field Service Edition. “We’ve continued to listen to feedback from our customers and partners since the release of 2018 R2, resulting in continuous refinement and improvement of Acumatica’s cloud ERP offerings,” said Jon Roskill, CEO, Acumatica. inventory, opportunities, and contacts to approving expense claims,” he said. “Natural Language input can be used to retrieve or insert data into an ERP system, and it could certainly improve end-user productivity. “Another interesting feature is the Acumatica Cloud ERP Connector for Microsoft Flow. It allows employees to create and automate workflows and tasks across their favourite applications and services, sync files, get notifications, collect data, and much more, all without the assistance of developers.” n “This product release of 2019 R1 continues our independently-recognised industry leadership in usability and customer satisfaction across multiple business sectors.” One Channel CEO Bernard Ford says Acumatica Alexa for Business skill is another major highlight. “The usefulness of voice activated scenarios in business that Alexa for Business can fulfil, from looking up www.intelligentcio.com Bernard Ford, Channel CEO INTELLIGENTCIO 13