RPC Data (RPC), Botswana’s leading software technology company has partnered with Agile Financial Technologies (Agile FT) to market its banking and insurance and software solutions and products in Africa.

Agile FT is a leading technology partner to major players in the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance) sector, providing holistic solutions with a combination of software, technology solutions and business enablement services.

Kalpesh Desai, the CEO of Agile FT, says, “We are very pleased to partner with RPC in Botswana. We believe RPC has the necessary strength and commitment to African business as evident from its expansion into the region. The African market is important for us and hence we chose to partner with a leading software company like RPC Data that has a strong understanding of the markets in Africa, particularly in Southern Africa. RPC Data will build and maintain implementation and support resources around our product stack, enabling us to service our BFSI clients in the continent.”

RPC is an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner and one of the oldest Oracle Partners in Africa with strategic offices in Zambia, Uganda, Kenya and an Off-Shore Development Centre in India.

Mompati Nwako, the Executive Director of RPC Data group notes that, by partnering with Agile FT, RPC will be able to strategically service the Insurance and Financial sector in Africa.

Agile FT’s intent is to serve enterprises in the BFSI sector of Botswana with a paradigm shift in services delivery that offers a combination of products and outsourcing services. The company understands technology's strategic relevance to business and provides solutions that allow its clients to focus on their core business. Agile FT’s state of the art facilities in India and the Middle East offer outsourcing services to its clients’ business processes and back office. Agile FT's unique processes enable its BFSI clients establish near-shore and on-shore outsourcing centres leveraging their own resources, thus enabling business agility, scale and efficiency.

According to Desai, this relationship is a demonstration of Agile FT's intent to create a sustainable and strong support base for its clients in Africa's BFSI sector.
Agile FT was recently chosen by Zimbabwe’s Optimal Insurance Company (Pvt) Ltd, a subsidiary of one of Zimbabwe's largest and diversified financial services institution - CBZ Holdings Limited – to implement AGILIS Core Insurance Software. The new system, whose implementation is scheduled to begin shortly, will allow Optimal Insurance to not only automate all its existing operations but also enable them to quickly create new insurance products thereby reducing time-to-market.

Both RPC and Agile FT hope to replicate the successful implementation in Zimbabwe with similar projects in the BFSI sector in sub-Saharan Africa.