NEWS
Haga Golf drives into the digital age
with Orange Business Services
H
aga Golf in Oslo, Norway, has chosen
Orange Business Services to help make
its golf course management smarter.
The Orange IoT solution will support the
transformation of costly labour-intensive
greenkeeping duties and ensure optimal
course conditions throughout the season.
Keeping golf courses in good condition is a
major issue for many golf clubs in Northern
Europe where weather can be volatile.
Haga chose Orange IoT Connect Anywhere
to transform its course maintenance. The
solution provides scalable end-to-end secure
connectivity between sensors installed
on the course and a data management
platform. Live Objects, the Orange Business
Haga Golf course,
Norway
Services IoT and analytics platform, then
turns this raw data into actionable insight.
The autonomous sensor monitoring
system from Orange will help Haga Golf
greenkeepers track and understand the
changing weather conditions.
“The greenkeeping function is critical to us
and we see great benefits in this tailored IoT
sensor solution. We have started an innovative
collaboration with Orange where our
employees can work more efficiently and our
members can use the course more often,” said
Erik Solberg, General Manager, Haga Golf.
“Haga Golf is an excellent example of how
an organisation can use smart technology
to solve time-consuming duties. We are
pleased that Haga Golf has chosen us as its
technology partner and we look forward to
developing even more innovative solutions
together,” said Fabrice de Windt, Senior Vice
President, Europe at Orange Business Services.
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Wirecard powers new Swiss Post China
cross-border e-commerce marketplace
W
irecard, a global innovation leader
for digital financial technology, is
providing the payment solution for Swiss
Post’s ‘Your Gateway to China’ service.
Thanks to the service, Swiss retailers can
easily offer their products directly to
Chinese consumers through major virtual
marketplaces. Swiss Post offers Swiss small
and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
everything they need to open up to new
markets, including market entry consulting,
logistics and customs clearance, as well as
links to local marketplaces.
A wide range of quality Swiss products and
well-known brands are already available
on the virtual marketplaces. Wirecard
processes all transactions carried out with
leading Chinese payment methods on
behalf of Swiss Post.
According to Statista, the Chinese
e-commerce market is a global leader, with an
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INTELLIGENTCIO
estimated gross merchandise volume of €4.1
trillion in 2019. Cross-border shopping has
also played a key role in China’s e-commerce
boom: the gross merchandise volume of
China’s import e-commerce market reached
€14 billion in 2017 and that figure is expected
to hit €44.7 billion by 2021. “We are very
pleased about our international cooperation
with Swiss Post,” commented Marion Laewe,
VP Sales Retail at Wirecard. “We want to offer
buyers and sellers simple and convenient
checkout processes, no matter where they are.
This collaboration is another development
in cross-border e-commerce that we look
forward to introducing in other regions in the
near future.”
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