Forging long-term successful client relationships is vital to any company worth its salt and NFS Technology South Africa is proudly partnering with The Inside Edge, which was launched 20 years ago, having gone from strength to strength as a destination management company.

Barbeque Downs, Johannesburg -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/20/2015 -- Described by the NFS team as a consummate professional, inspirational leader and gracious host, Bradley Glenn, Managing Director of The Inside Edge, voiced his views on his company utilising etouches, supplied by NFS:

"People and relationships play a major role in the success of businesses globally and we found the flexibility and generosity of the NFS team a big factor from the outset. We now have more control of the operating system, whilst the added value of paying for the use of etouches in rands addresses our need to forecast accurately as well as implement the latest technology.

"Our team finds etouches extremely user-friendly and remarkably easy to grasp. In fact, we are already seeing positive results.

"As we are in the early stages of implementing the technology, we have found a few teething problems, none of which can't be overcome by working together to resolve them. Already NFS is working so closely with our team, they are going to fix and sort obstacles we experience with the developers of etouches to ensure all operations are streamlined.

"This new web-based solution makes for instant, open communications across all of South Africa, ensuring transparency and instant results."

When asked how etouches compared to the old way of doing things, Brad states: "The old system was time-consuming and I had to actually visit all the major centres of southern Africa in which we operate to ensure all was going according to plan, while it did not offer the instant sharing capabilities of etouches – in short it was cumbersome in some respects. I now have more time to focus on client relations whilst the web-based system handles business as usual."

Brad attended a workshop on etouches hosted by NFS in August 2015, where he decided to put this new technology to the test.

About etouches
etouches is a leader in cloud event management software. Founded in 2008, the event management technology company has more than 1,000 customers in 35 countries. Covering every major function in the event planning lifecycle, the multi-lingual and multi-currency software has 15 modules for registration, budgeting, surveying, mobile app and more. Headquartered in the United States, the company has 4 wholly-owned subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Australia and the United Arab Emirates – distributed by NFS in Africa.

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Company name: NFS Hospitality
Tel: 011 394 9554/6/7
Website: www.nfs.co.za
Contact person: Deep
Email: info@nfs.co.za
Address: Cube Workspace
134 River Road
Barbeque Downs
Kyalami

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Barbeque Downs, South Africa -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/16/2015 -- According to latest data from professional networking giant LinkedIn, more professionals are entering South Africa than leaving, leading to new business opportunities and event prospecting opportunities.

In the Linkedin top 20 professional migration countries, South Africa came in a respective sixth, after Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Germany. The number one country is United Arab Emirates.

Highlighting South Africa specifically, the data revealed that 0.26% more professionals arrived than left between January and December 2014, 0.5% up from the previous survey of the period from November 2012 to November 2013.

Much-needed science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) skills make up nearly half the list of career traits in people migrating internationally, while other notable skillsets considered most valuable include foreign language translation, business consulting and life sciences.

Commenting on the results, Luis de Souza said: "The LinkedIn stats demonstrate how South Africa is fast becoming a most attractive business destination and companies are quickly embracing the opportunities to recruit skilled professionals entering the country.

"Such positivity will inevitably lead to greater networking events and it is up to organisers to ensure they have the relevant software available to efficiently create the opportunities to meet the demand. This is right from initial planning processes through to event management during and post event, to ensure maximum return on a significant investment is achieved."

About NFS Rendezvous
NFS Rendezvous is a powerful best of breed event management software solution designed to handle all event management requirements, including reserving space and resources, requesting deposits and managing payments, assigning and overseeing tasks, tracking booking changes and ensuring the proper delivery of catering and AV equipment.

PR Contact:
www.nfs.co.za
Company name: NFS Hospitality
Tel: 011 394 9554/6/7
Website: www.nfs.co.za
Contact person: Deep
Email: info@nfs.co.za
Address: Cube Workspace
134 River Road
Barbeque Downs
Kyalami

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Barbeque Downs, Johannesburg -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/20/2015 -- Latest technology is evolving the business meeting, enabling a more efficient process with a wider opportunity for communicating, brainstorming, creating and decision making far beyond the four natural walls of the meeting room

According to latest research, the average manager spends at least a third, or sometimes even over a half, of all their time in meetings, and over two thirds of meetings are unproductive.

Modern meeting room software solutions and other technologies like video conferencing and video signage can ensure that business meetings are better arranged, managed and effective for the benefit of the employees and business as a whole.

Here's six ways technology can instantly help a meeting to run to time for the benefit of all who attend.

1. Reception Meet and Greet

Even before guests enter a meeting room, they expect to be greeted in the most efficient way possible, to ensure there is no time wasted on their visit.

Companies must have the right personnel in reception, alongside the right technology to ensure visitors can be seamlessly welcomed, presented with an ID badge where appropriate and directed to the right meeting room.

2. Meeting Room Signage

Once the visitors are on their way to the meeting room – make sure the meeting information as well as path finding and room level meeting details is clear and easy to find, in digital format using latest AV/signage technologies.

This can also be beneficial once the meeting is in progress and breaks taken, so guests can quickly and efficiently find their way back with minimal disruption to the meeting.

3. Meeting Room WiFi

In today's business environment, laptops, smartphones and tablets are crucial to productivity, so it's only logical that your meeting room equipment is advanced enough to be able to be integrated with them.

Presentations are now a common occurrence during meetings, and often include image and video footage to highlight key points alongside direct links to external sites and social media. Presentations must also be easy and quick to share, regardless of device or location.

This all means meeting rooms must offer quality wi-fi services to cater for as many devices as meeting room capacity (at least one device per person!) to enable a smooth running meeting without any interference, due to drop in technology.

4. Out of Office Attendees

With the increasing trends towards more flexible and home working, meetings must be planned and set up to enable attendees via video conference technology, who must still have full view of all the attendants and presentations.

To enable this, companies need to think of the user experience that will encourage the best adoption in every meeting setting and use of these technologies to gain the best return on investment.

5. BYOD can boost productivity

BYOD policies and mobile devices make the workforce more flexible, more efficient and more agile, but in a meeting room environment, smartphones, tablets and laptops that all have different operating systems represents a significant logistical challenge.

By using wireless or USB technology and a shared screen, your meeting room can support all operating systems without the need for cables, connectors and specialized adapters, or the reconfiguration of settings.

By introducing BYOD and modern wireless technology into the meeting room, employees can use smartphones and tablets to give their presentations, and use mobile apps from AV specialists to project their presentations wirelessly on to a single monitor, allowing presentations to run more quickly and smoothly.

6. Catering Requirements

If the meeting is scheduled to run over lunch, then catering must be seamlessly arranged into the agenda, with due consideration to dietary requirements of meeting guests, including vegan and vegetarian, but also increasingly lactose, gluten and nut intolerance.

Overall, meeting room technology should also be easy to use and maintain, so there is less of a reliance on the IT department, with the potential to delay meetings.

About Rendezvous software
Rendezvous software is an important part of meeting management but the integration between room booking and space planning, operating as a single integrated system provides the greatest efficiency in terms of delivering a great meeting experience.

Just these few examples show how the meeting has evolved in today's workplace. Specialist solutions such as NFS Technology's Rendezvous software has been designed especially for the modern day workplace to offer a total solution to ensure a meeting can run smoothly and efficiently, without the need for IT back up.

PR Contact:
Company name: NFS Hospitality
Tel: 011 394 9554/6/7
Website: http://nfs.co.za/
Contact person: Deep
Email: info@nfs.co.za
Address: Cube Workspace
134 River Road
Barbeque Downs
Kyalami

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NFS Technology Group has announced the expansion of its software solutions portfolio and associated support and training services in South Africa.

Barbeque Downs, South Africa -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/01/2015 -- This expansion will enhance NFS' set of capabilities in Southern Africa as the preferred supplier of state of the art software for hospitality, venue, events and conference planning professionals.

Says Luis de Souza, CEO of NFS Technology Group: "We are well-established as the provider of choice of venue and events software to the hospitality, corporate and events management sectors in South Africa, Africa and internationally.

"To ensure our fast-expanding customer base in South Africa is not only supplied with the Rendezvous venue management software as well as the etouches events management and online registration solution, we have also increased our technical and support team to meet existing and new client demands on a 24/7 basis."

"This support is further complemented through up-to-date training for the South African hospitality, venue and events managements professionals utilizing our software."

As part of its investment in support and sales in the country, NFS has appointed Jeana Turner as National Sales Manager. Well-established in the local hospitality market, Jeana is focused on assisting customers in bridging the gap between obsolete, time-consuming methods of venue and events management and the highly functional and easy to use technology solutions available from NFS.

Jeana states: "NFS brings to South Africa the best solutions for running successful corporate and commercial venues with Rendezvous, which deals with meeting operations, sales and billing. Our etouches event management solution is affordable and cloud-based and any event-manger's best friend as a user-friendly platform to complement the execution of any event, conference or trade show, in any language."

PR Contact

Company name: NFS Hospitality
Tel: 011 394 9554/6/7
Website: www.nfs.co.za
Contact person: Deep
Email: info@nfs.co.za
Address: Cube Workspace
134 River Road
Barbeque Downs
Kyalami

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