Cape Town, 7405,
South Africa
1 grid Technographics
Discover the latest software purchases and digital transformation initiatives being undertaken by 1 grid and its business and technology executives. Each quarter our research team identifies on-prem and cloud applications that are being used by the 40 1 grid employees from the public (Press Releases, Customer References, Testimonials, Case Studies and Success Stories) and proprietary sources.
During our research, we have identified that 1 grid has purchased the following applications: Webafrica Hosting for Application Hosting and Computing Services in 2018, Freshdesk Messaging (Formerly Freshchat) for Chatbots and Conversational AI in 2024, Microsoft 365 for Collaboration in 2018 and the related IT decision-makers and key stakeholders.
Our database provides customer insight and contextual information on which enterprise applications and software systems 1 grid is running and its propensity to invest more and deepen its relationship with Webafrica Networks , Freshworks , Microsoft or identify new suppliers as part of their overall Digital and IT transformation projects to stay competitive, fend off threats from disruptive forces, or comply with internal mandates to improve overall enterprise efficiency.
We have been analyzing 1 grid revenues, which have grown to $4.0 million in 2024, plus its IT budget and roadmap, cloud software purchases, aggregating massive amounts of data points that form the basis of our forecast assumptions for 1 grid intention to invest in emerging technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, IoT, Blockchain, Autonomous Database or in cloud-based ERP, HCM, CRM, EPM, Procurement or Treasury applications.
IaaS
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| Webafrica Networks | Legacy | Webafrica Hosting | Application Hosting and Computing Services | IaaS | n/a | 2018 | 2018 | In 2018, 1 grid deployed Webafrica Hosting to support its corporate website. Webafrica Hosting provides Application Hosting and Computing Services for the company, delivering the web hosting and compute resources that power content and public pages at https://www.1grid.co.za/. The implementation centralizes web content and site compute on Webafrica Hosting, using standard category-aligned capabilities such as web server provisioning, domain name resolution and SSL certificate management via the hosting control plane. Operational scope is the 40-employee Professional Services firm based in South Africa, where the hosting arrangement supports marketing and client-facing business functions, with site administration and billing managed through the hosting account governance processes. | |
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AI-Powered Application
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| Freshworks | Legacy | Freshdesk Messaging (Formerly Freshchat) | Chatbots and Conversational AI | AI-Powered Application | n/a | 2024 | 2024 | In 2024, 1 grid deployed Freshdesk Messaging (Formerly Freshchat) on their website. The implementation uses Freshdesk Messaging (Formerly Freshchat) as the web conversational layer and is categorized under Chatbots and Conversational AI, supporting customer support and pre-sales engagement for the company's Professional Services operations in South Africa. The deployment centers on a website-embedded chat widget configured with conversational bot flows, automated greetings, canned responses, and agent handoff to live support, leveraging Freshdesk Messaging (Formerly Freshchat) standard modules for session management and message threading. Configuration work emphasized intent-based routing and conversational triggers to surface high priority customer queries to support staff and to collect lead contact data. Operational scope covers support and sales teams within 1 grid, with governance patterns that assign channel ownership, agent queues, and escalation workflows to ensure consistent response processes. Because the implementation is hosted as a web-embedded Freshdesk Messaging (Formerly Freshchat) instance, integrations are limited to the website engagement layer and internal process changes focused on chat-first service handling and scripted conversational playbooks. |
Collaboration
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| Microsoft | Legacy | Microsoft 365 | Collaboration | Collaboration | n/a | 2018 | 2018 |
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Customer Experience | CRM |
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Marketing Analytics | CRM |
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Marketing Analytics | CRM |
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Marketing Analytics | CRM |
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Marketing Automation | CRM |
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Tag Management | CRM |
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HCM
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Digital Adoption | HCM |
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CyberSecurity
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Identity and Access Management (IAM) | CyberSecurity |
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Transactional Email | PaaS |
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