{"id":695731,"date":"2023-06-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=695731"},"modified":"2023-06-14T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T10:05:50","slug":"business-talk-sage-mea-vp-pieter-bensch-discusses-the-top-smb-trends-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/695731\/business-talk-sage-mea-vp-pieter-bensch-discusses-the-top-smb-trends-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Sage AME, EVP Pieter Bensch discusses the top SMB trends in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Executive Vice President for Sage in Africa and the Middle East, Pieter Bensch is responsible for growing Sage\u2019s business across the region and executing its vision of disrupting and leading the market for cloud-based payroll and accounting solutions.<\/p>\n<p>He has 26 years\u2019 industry experience and has held leadership roles in complex technology businesses across Europe, Middle East and Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Pieter joined Sage from HPE (Hewlett- Packard Enterprise), where he was the Managing Director for South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining HP, Pieter held a range of senior positions at Oracle, including Vice-President of Oracle Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Vice-President of Customer Support for MEA and Vice- President and Managing Director of Oracle SA.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Interview with Pieter Bensch<\/h3>\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Bensch talks to Michael Avery about Sage\u2019s recent research on South African small and medium businesses.<\/p>\n<p>He details the findings of this research, such as the biggest challenges South African SMBs face and their business confidence levels.<\/p>\n<p>Bensch then discusses the solutions Sage provides \u2013 including its cloud-based HR, payroll, accounting, and finance solutions \u2013 and how they benefit local SMBs.<\/p>\n<p>He also explains how the government can help support SMBs, especially given the load-shedding crisis and the lingering effects of the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The full Business Talk interview is embedded below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Business Talk - Pieter Bensch speaks more on Sage\u2019s Small Business, Big Opportunity research\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0pNBMBq-pwg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Business Talk interview, Pieter Bensch &#8211; Executive Vice President for Sage in Africa and the Middle East \u2013 talks about Sage\u2019s research into South African SMBs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":695923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[1033],"class_list":["post-695731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-sage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695731","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695731"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696319,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695731\/revisions\/696319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}