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Bluechip Technologies, a Nigerian software program firm that gives administration options to corporations, has lately introduced an enlargement transfer into Europe. Launched in 2008 by prolific buyers Olumide Soyombo and Kazeem Tewogbade, the corporate plans, designs, implements and operates enterprise utility options and central methods to create and preserve a aggressive enterprise benefit.
The corporate’s newest enlargement follows the rising demand for the corporate’s services. Bluechip, which began in Nigeria and has expanded to Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, and the DRC, has been on the forefront of Africa’s knowledge warehousing development. Bluechip’s enlargement follows a latest pattern of African corporations increasing abroad, like Moove’s enlargement into India. Richard Lewis, a seasoned govt with expertise spanning 4 a long time, will lead the corporate’s enlargement technique in Europe.
In a press release shared with TechCabal, he stated, “I’m thrilled to work with the Bluechip workforce, having labored with the founders on numerous different initiatives all through the years. As one of many main knowledge warehousing corporations in Africa with an intensive observe file of working with a few of the largest OEMs and enterprises, I consider we’re properly positioned to supply immense worth to companies on this area and I’m wanting ahead to constructing new connections within the coming months.”
Bluechip, an enterprise tech firm, has labored with giant corporations in Africa like telco corporations MTN and 9mobile, and banks like Warranty Belief Financial institution, First Financial institution, and Entry Financial institution. The corporate has additionally efficiently partnered with worldwide corporations like Oracle and Microsoft and is now poised to do the identical in Europe. Working out of Carlingford in Eire, Bluechip plans to construct on its success with the telco and banking sectors in Africa by concentrating on these sectors in Europe.
Olumide Soyombo, one of many co-founders of Bluechip, stated in a press release shared with TechCabal, “We’re excited to be one of many trusted consultants answering the rising demand for knowledge merchandise and options within the world market. Quite a few companies belief us to supply high quality analytics options, which has led to referrals from our worldwide purchasers in Africa for initiatives exterior the continent. We’re wanting ahead to combining our experience with native information to safe new strategic relationships, with the expertise we carry from one of many hardest markets that means we are able to supply this market the identical sturdy options and providers.”
Bluechip specialises in assembling knowledge from a number of sources and translating it into info that assists organisations in understanding traits like churn and the lifetime worth of a buyer, in addition to easy methods to make higher enterprise selections based mostly on the info obtained. To do that, the corporate believes that human capital could be very important to its success.
Simply final week, the corporate launched Primo Academy, a 6-month coaching program that can groom college students to turn out to be knowledge professionals with none prior expertise. The corporate observed a scarcity of tech expertise and desires to equip aspiring knowledge professionals with the required expertise to work in a world financial system. Profitable candidates will likely be onboarded into Bluechip or advisable to Bluechip’s pool of companions.
The rising post-pandemic pattern in distant working, a critical shortage of tech talent and a rise in demand for managing knowledge extra effectively current an important alternative for Bluechip to carry it’s greater than decade-long experience to the broader EU market.
