Apex BI helps MiX by Powerfleet track their IoT expenditure

With several hundred thousand SIM cards in use across Africa, MiX by Powerfleet found itself at the sharp end of IoT long before the term was even invented.

According to Regan Erasmus, Operations Director, Apex BI,  MiX by Powerfleet Africa wanted a platform to efficiently monitor, control and manage the vast number of SIM cards in its heterogeneous environment. “The solution was what we refer to as ‘the power of knowing’ – essentially a way to integrate all the data into a single software platform where it can be analysed in order to provide real, meaningful business intelligence for the client,” he says.

Apex BI deployed its proprietary telecommunications expense management platform, Clarity. Clarity aggregates the data from the total universe of MiX by Powerfleet SIM cards - issued by a number of different mobile network providers across the continent. The platform helped to eliminate manual processing of information and made the automated analysis of this information attainable in order to provide critical operational and financial insights.

Clarity makes it possible to implement smart rules - in terms of voice, data and SMS usage - for different customers according to their specific operational needs. In addition, MiX by Powerfleet has a more efficient system to consolidate and process on-billing charges to the client.

“We have been using Apex BI’s Clarity platform for more than four years, and for me the greatest benefit is not just the ability to control and manage our sizeable and increasing number of SIM cards, but also that we have the capability to retain that control into the future,” says Gert Pretorius, Managing Director of MiX by Powerfleet Africa. “Clarity is helping us to drive down costs while delivering a better and more cost-effective service to our clients.”