High-capacity fibre-optic links extend to businesses in many African countries. Inexpensive wireless technologies carry data efficiently. New satellite networks provide Internet access, even in remote rural areas.

Gateway Communications is using local and pan-African presence, infrastructure and relationships to help local businesses of all sizes and types to succeed within Africa and the Middle East.

Unique integrated solutions for e-commerce in Africa
Africa’s huge leaps in technology can bring associated problems, such as the need for compatibility and integration with external systems. And these issues may be compounded when companies have to deal with external organisations that have different systems, and disparate technology skills and resources.

Gateway’s e-commerce solutions ensure that critical information between trading partners is delivered in a secure and timely manner, with a full audit trail to identify events and activities that occurred around that information transfer.

We also make extensive use of the Internet and web-based service provision to ensure that even the smallest company can achieve its e-commerce and business information goals with the same confidence enjoyed by larger companies who also use Gateway’s bespoke solution.
Gateway’s integrated solutions manage the flow of business information right across the value chain, with offerings that include:

• A Transaction Switching Service that supports over 891 companies by delivering 3.5m business transactions per month, guaranteeing the delivery of mission critical information that supports daily operations
  
  
• Enterprise Application Integration, to ensure smooth transactions
  
  
• Web-based Transaction Services that allow any authorised person to track the progress of a transaction as it proceeds through the value chain
  
  
• Trading Community Development, to support the progress of new and established markets.

Information, technology and finance
Gateway’s technology and services complement the manifold solutions now used to promote wealth generation within Africa, providing improved access and efficiency with ever-greater security, transparency and scalability.