GROWING TECHNOLOGY

Aspire Technologies creates an environment for the rapid development of packaged technology products aimed at enhancing business efficiency.

Our distinctive end-products are a result of both in-house product design and collaboration with emerging innovators who require support in bringing their product to market.

A Brief History

Aspire Technologies developed from Aspire Solutions, a bespoke software solutions company with an 18-year track record of designing, developing, and deploying bespoke software solutions for South African clients. Many of the once-off solutions built by Aspire Solutions had the potential to be packaged as business software tools that could benefit a wider range of businesses in South Africa. As a result, Aspire Technologies was founded to further incubate and develop these products to the point of being market ready.

Once established, it just made sense to open up opportunities to other like-minded innovators with similar product ideas and assist them in their development journeys.

MAPPING TOOLKIT

Mapzania is a powerful and feature-rich mapping toolkit designed to provide premier web-based mapping solutions on .NET systems. Designed as an in-house tool by Aspire Solutions and refined through years of testing and practical application, Mapzania is now an independent company offering a comprehensive toolkit that uses Leaflet to meet its rendering requirements. Mapzania has been specifically designed with its own engine – optimised for the frequently low-bandwidth environments in South Africa – and is geared towards business applications that require mapping capabilities seldom offered by other web-based mapping alternatives.

NAVIGATING AND STRUCTURING DATA

Structure

Build a framework for accessing the information in a clear and easily-navigable way

Discover

Identify databases, stores, websites, document libraries, emails and similar data stores

Mine

Trawl the data for information and use AI to identify, tag and prioritise the most valuable information

Present

Allow search and display of the structured information to those with security clearance

Findology is search engine for your business, bringing order to unstructured data with minimal human intervention and providing a unified enterprise search.  It is a knowledge platform that discovers data, mines it for information, makes this knowledge findable and provides the ability to interact with it. There is business value to be had at every step of this process.

Findology is aimed at small to medium businesses and aims to bring structure to the relatively disorganised technology stacks in which most businesses currently house their data. These businesses typically rely on staff members, archive officers, filing clerks or librarians to keep track of their information.

By accessing various data sources, Findology makes currently unstructured data available in a structured way and provides greater simplicity in navigating these data stores.  Findology ensures that information is always accessible and sorted by importance (using AI clustering algorithms to determine which is information is of high/low value and pushing the crucial stuff to the top). It ensures continuity and security of the business’s information.  Findology can also include paper-based data has been scanned, tagged and indexed.

The ease of use in navigating and structuring data with Findology is largely due to the search functionality provided by Aspire Technologies’ FIND Me tool. Providing search functionality for accessing multiple databases with a single search, FIND Me is capable of accessing data stored on apps, cloud storage and traditional databases, as well as private and custom servers and platforms. Results are quick and accurate, including scan correction by means of find/edit/replace features. FIND Me features built-in OCR functionality and uses predictive AI and machine language-learning processes to better respond to client needs. Syncing with a single sign-on and SSO providers, FIND Me is an essential tool for responding to the demands for simplicity and functionality central to the enterprise search market.

Increased demand for time-saving data search solutions is expected to be a key growth factor for the enterprise search market in 2021 – a market with a global size estimated at 3,7 billion US dollars in 2019. Responding to the needs of this growing market, Findology is an elegant and efficient example of the enterprise search solution software necessary for the efficient management of time and resources.

END-TO-END BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Financial Management

Invoicing and debt control
Recording of expenses
Time recording
Management reports

Statutory Requirements

Calendar of reminders
Shortcuts to required submissions
Guides/checklists to requirements

Project Management

Scheduling and task management
Budgeting and cost control
Reporting
Resource allocation

Staff Management

Employee information tracking
Time recording
Performance tracking
Leave management

Elula Management System is a comprehensive end-to-end business management system.  It is designed to provide structure and efficiency in accordance with internal business requirements as well as statutory guidelines.

Elula has been developed specifically for South African entrepreneurs looking for an easy-to-use, inexpensive system to manage their start-up and guide them through the registration, running and requirements of their business. Incubators and similar accelerator enterprises would find Elula valuable in monitoring and guiding their entrepreneurs.

Elula provides a seamless, organised flow for business management and a central hub that allows for legislative updates. It includes dashboards, checklists, reminders and wizards to aid in navigating all business requirements.

In an environment where South African entrepreneurs often struggle with access to structural tools and business management software in the start-up phase, Elula is designed to meet these needs in a way that current competitors are unable to do to the same degree. With end-to-end customer, financial and staff management capabilities, Elula is positioned to become an essential tool for South African entrepreneurs.