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“Thank you Bidvest team for your great service throughout 2024.”
- MTN
“Working with the Bidvest team is a real pleasure. We've thoroughly enjoyed partnering with a local provider for our business' WhatsApp profile - invoicing is simple and our templates are loaded and approved speedily. Prepaid24 would highly recommend Bidvest. Such a seamless process from setup to production!”
- Prepaid24
“We're incredibly grateful to the Bidvest Data Team who go above and beyond to support us with vital customer communication. Their commitment and innovation has kept us at the forefront of electronic customer engagement.”
- Sanlam Retail Mass
“Dear Bidvest team, Just wanted to take the time to say a very special thank you to TEAM BIDVEST. Everyone at OUP thanks all the people involved over the last few weeks and trust me, everyone in our organization now knows how much we can depend on Bidvest and we're all truly grateful for your efforts. Your responsiveness to our changing needs and requests is truly appreciated”
- Oxford
Explore the significant advantages of implementing enterprise-grade SMS and SVSMS failover solutions for your business, enhancing reliability, customer experience, and security.
In the competitive landscape of South African enterprise communications, reliability is paramount. SMS and SVSMS (Secure SMS) solutions have advanced significantly, particularly concerning failover capabilities. This guide explores the crucial benefits of implementing an enterprise-grade SMS and SVSMS failover system, ensuring that your business communications remain uninterrupted and secure.
An enterprise-grade SMS solution serves as a backbone for effective mobile communication. Failover refers to the automatic switching to a backup system when the primary system fails, ensuring that the communication process is seamless. For enterprises, this means that any interruptions due to network issues, server failures, or other technical difficulties can be avoided, providing consistent messaging capabilities.
With failover capabilities, enterprises can ensure that critical communications remain unaffected by technical challenges. Enterprises in sectors such as healthcare and finance can send urgent notifications, alerts, or updates without the fear of message delays or miscommunications.
Failover systems create a robust communication backbone that enhances customer experience. Whether it's appointment reminders, OTPs for banking, or alerts from utility providers, customers benefit from timely and secure messages, leading to improved engagement and trust in the brand.
While the initial investment in enterprise-grade failover systems may appear substantial, the long-term cost savings are remarkable. Reduced downtime translates to fewer lost revenue opportunities, and with a scalable solution, businesses can adapt their messaging capabilities as they grow without substantial redesign or downtime.
For sectors like finance and healthcare, compliance with local and international regulations (such as POPIA) is essential. Secure SMS solutions with failover mechanisms help maintain robust security protocols, ensuring confidential communications remain protected during any disruptions.
When implementing SMS and SVSMS failover systems, it’s vital to choose solutions that seamlessly integrate with existing enterprise infrastructure. Key considerations include:
Incorporating enterprise-grade SMS and SVSMS failover solutions is a strategic move for South African organizations aiming to enhance their communication reliability, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency. As your business scales, investing in failover capabilities will ensure that your messaging remains uninterrupted, fluid, and secure, paving the way for seamless client interactions and business growth.
Contact us today to discover how our SMS and SVSMS solutions can transform your enterprise communication strategy and ensure uninterrupted messaging capabilities for your organization.
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Bidvest Data sends on average more than 10 million personalized SMS/SV SMS messages per month, with daily peaks exceeding 2 million messages. This comprises mainly of transactional notifications and hosted transactional data.
The SMS channel delivers a secure, shortened personalized URL to the consumer, directing them to their unique microsite. All consumer activity can be tracked.
PDF documents, HTML content, videos and animations can be hosted on our Zero Rated Data domains. Reverse billing of data on these domains ensure access for end users to content at no cost. Bidvest Data offers this service on all South African and Namibian mobile networks.
Bidvest Data offers custom-built, screen adaptive, HTML environments, enabling features like animation, rotating GIFs, and interactive buttons.
Our service includes automated large file batch sending through sFTP data transfer. The data can selectively drive template messaging. Near real-time SMS sending is facilitated through our API, using templates or dynamic text.
Where another channel in our omnichannel platform is unsuccessful in delivering a message, we can automatically fail over to SMS. Priority and fail over channels are configurable.
Bidvest Data provides near-real-time and periodic aggregate batched reporting on consumer engagement, including link tracking, SMS and SV SMS delivery status, and customized reports on microsite access.
“Thank you Bidvest team for your great service throughout 2024.”
- MTN
“Working with the Bidvest team is a real pleasure. We've thoroughly enjoyed partnering with a local provider for our business' WhatsApp profile - invoicing is simple and our templates are loaded and approved speedily. Prepaid24 would highly recommend Bidvest. Such a seamless process from setup to production!”
- Prepaid24
“We're incredibly grateful to the Bidvest Data Team who go above and beyond to support us with vital customer communication. Their commitment and innovation has kept us at the forefront of electronic customer engagement.”
- Sanlam Retail Mass
“Dear Bidvest team, Just wanted to take the time to say a very special thank you to TEAM BIDVEST. Everyone at OUP thanks all the people involved over the last few weeks and trust me, everyone in our organization now knows how much we can depend on Bidvest and we're all truly grateful for your efforts. Your responsiveness to our changing needs and requests is truly appreciated”
- Oxford