Global software provider of digital workspace technology solutions SuiteBox is predicting major market gains in 2017. The company, which launched last month in SA, believes over 1 000 companies globally will be using its mobile meeting rooms by March 2017.
"Based on current growth rates, we expect the number of companies using our technology to increase by more than 500% in 2017, with these companies spread across the globe," says SuiteBox CEO Ian Dunbar.
In early November, the digital office solutions company was introduced to the South African market, through a partnership with Moonstone Information Refinery, to provide sales, marketing and frontline services to SA. Moonstone also bought a 10% equity shareholding in SuiteBox Solutions, which is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.
"Our business is split as follows: 40% in Australia, 20% in New Zealand, 20% in South Africa, and 20% in the rest of world, including in the US and UK. SuiteBox has already doubled its headcount in 2016 and will likely nearly double again in 2017, as we spread the word of the benefits of virtual engagement technology across the globe," adds Dunbar.
SuiteBox says the use of virtual meetings is growing rapidly worldwide.
"As the world becomes more connected, virtual meeting rooms can add significant value to most service-based businesses because they allow client interactions anywhere, irrespective of geographic location. Business people can undertake all personal consultation in a secure online forum, with face-to-face contact helping to build customer intimacy more effectively than phone or digital-based engagements such as e-mails," Dunbar says.
SuiteBox's digital workspace technology solution allows businesses to share, amend and digitally sign documents with customers in real-time, and authenticate documents on-screen to complete transactions, while being in a virtual meeting or in person.
It has also announced enhancements to its software, including the capacity to have a four-person virtual meeting and integrated forms with YTML highlighter. In January, it will expand its digital signing capacity to include the ability to embed video and photo evidence into the signing, "a world first, which will make us a market leader in digital workspace tools", according to Dunbar.
SuiteBox is also developing the concept of the "digital bank branch", as this becomes a key trend in the provision of financial services in 2017.
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