{"id":428440,"date":"2020-08-25T10:47:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T08:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=428440"},"modified":"2020-08-25T10:47:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T08:47:15","slug":"vox-offers-coopers-es-pest-free-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/428440\/vox-offers-coopers-es-pest-free-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Vox offers Coopers ES pest-free connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coopers Environmental Science (Coopers ES) is a pest control company which offers a range of products for the professional pest control industry, the grain storage industry, and is a reseller of pesticides for homeowners.<\/p>\n<p>Their approach in designing products is to think of the environment first \u2013 which means all their technologies are innovative and fresh introductions to the market; but most importantly, their products are ahead of the game, create healthier environments, and ensure food security.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.co.za\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_campaign=22_July_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to find out more from Vox<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Industry<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Pest control is essential to the protection of the environment as well as public health.<\/p>\n<p>According to a story reported by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2017-06-13-pest-control-should-not-be-seen-as-a-grudge-purchase-say-exterminators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Times Live<\/a><\/strong>, the Chinese Pest Control Association believes that a rapidly-warming planet\u201a increasing pace of urbanisation, and booming trade and tourism have led to an increase in disease-carrying organisms.<\/p>\n<p>This supports the point that effective pest control is needed to improve the quality of life for people in Southern Africa and the world over.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Challenge<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Tienie Jordaan, the Financial Director of Coopers ES, said the company needed to upgrade and streamline its systems in order to give their clients better service.<\/p>\n<p>Their priorities were creating an integrated system, improving service levels and reducing costs, connecting all business units to an online live platform, ensuring system high-availability, and IT security to safeguard against cyber-attacks and cyber-insecurities.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Business Solution<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Wide Area Network deployment with dual last-mile connectivity &#8211; in conjunction with integrated voice services, managed firewall, and backups &#8211; have helped Coopers ES to achieve their cost savings and upgraded ICT requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also been able to streamline business practices,\u201d Jordaan said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Overall experience with Vox<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cVox has impressive service levels &#8211; a high quality of network performance and after-sale backup. From the project management to the relationship with your project manager,\u201d said Jordaan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a one-on-one relationship with Vox, and the relationship manager is efficient \u2013 on a monthly basis he contacts us to monitor feedback and report on our improvements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This personalised account management made a difference in ensuring that things ran smoothly and that any challenges were dealt with efficiently.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.co.za\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_campaign=22_July_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to find out more from Vox<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Vox and Coopers ES case study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":293006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[4369],"class_list":["post-428440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428442,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428440\/revisions\/428442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}