Samsung Electronics South Africa was proud to be the Silver sponsor at the recently held 2015 MTN Business App of The Year Awards, aimed at discovering South African talent in the mobile application development industry. The awards celebrated South Africa’s mobile app developers by showcasing locally created applications that have a positive and lasting impact within the mobile enterprise environment.
As the premier showcase of the country’s innovation in the mobile enterprise app space, the event was attended by leading app developers and leaders in the mobile industry. Successful candidates stood the chance to win great prizes as well as the opportunity to gain recognition for their efforts.
Paulo Ferreira, Director of Enterprise Mobility at Samsung Electronics SA, says Samsung’s support of the awards reinforces its commitment to local developers and their creative talent, to enhance the prosumer mobile experience with innovative apps.
“We were delighted to have supported the MTN App of the Year Awards once again. This platform is a fantastic opportunity for budding South African developers to showcase cutting-edge content to a new audience. The awards represent a shared vision across the technology industry to meet the changing needs of our customers; something Samsung places enormous value on,” says Ferreira.
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For Samsung, collaboration plays an essential role in providing users with a wide range of choices by developing rich content and services that meet the needs of enterprise customers. This commitment is exemplified through its Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program (SEAP) that provides essential support to Samsung partners to assist in developing solutions and technology to meet enterprise needs in today’s business environment.
The MTN Business App of the Year Awards presented the perfect opportunity for developers to connect with Samsung and learn more about the support offered by the partner programme. This support includes: providing valued partners with Software Development Kits (SKD) that enable local developers to create applications for Samsung Android Devices.
The winners announced at a prestigious event are:
WumDrop: Winner in the Best Enterprise category and overall winner;
DStv Now: Winner in the Best Consumer App 2015 category;
Vula Mobile: Winner in the Most Innovative App 2015 category;
CPUT Mobile: Winner in the Best Enterprise Development App 2015 category;
EskomSePush: Winner in the Best Breakthrough Developer App 2015 category, and
M4JAM: Winner in the Best Wild Card App 2015 category.
“Content and services are a vital part of Samsung’s offering to enterprise customers. We work closely with developers to create useful and relevant apps within our enterprise environment as well as connecting developers to customers – building successful relationships around an exclusive line of business applications. Congratulations to all the winners,” concluded Ferreira.
