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Founders Charlie Trietline and Richard Phillips, teamed up with Grove to develop their latest pioneering equestrian social media app with GPS ride tracking. The brief was to build a social media network for the equestrian community to give them riding freedom with safety in their pocket. ​ In Forge and Farrier Richard Phillips explained that this is an app for the equestrian community. “We’ve added what riders want—the aim was to give the riding community the app they deserve.” ​ Having reached out to the equestrian community for direction on what features to add, Huufe has repeatedly been described as ‘revolutionary’ and ‘the app that we’ve been waiting for’, by top equestrian publications like Horse & Hound and Horse Nation.

In servicing city infrastructure for the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Dean Fanoe, owner of Designer Lighting and his team is not only tasked to maintain the upkeep of street lights, traffic signals and road surfaces but also with the managing of the city fault reporting call centre. As lighting contractors, the company had an existing app which did not fulfil their requirements to maintain street light and traffic light infrastructure in the Eastern Cape. They partnered with the Grove software development team to create an app and web portal for the internal team to manage resources for fault reporting whereby residents can report ,via the mobile app, high mast lighting issues in their areas enabling them to quickly identify and respond to infrastructure issues in the designated areas.

​As 2019 approaches, we expect the following technology trends to disrupt, shift and change the way we do business. The application of these game-changing technologies is becoming ever more pervasive, and their worldwide adoption is growing steadily. It is clear that disruptive technology trends like Cloud, AI, Blockchain, Robotics and Virtual Reality are going to propel the future—and that no industry will go untouched by digital transformation.

A wise woman once said that adaptation is a profound process. It means that you figure out how to thrive in an ever-changing world. In a world driven by vast technological changes, adapting is no longer a matter of choice. Success is now determined by how well you and your company go with the flow of the digital revolution. The buzzwords that are flying around when technology experts make predictions for 2018 would have made little sense not so long ago. Yet these days, even old-school business leaders have to take cognisance of concepts such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain technology, Big Data, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Cloud.