Vodafone Enterprise mentioned the variety of customers for V-Hub, the free digital advisory service, has reached greater than 5 million from 3.6 million prospects this time final 12 months. V-Hub targets customers in small and medium-sized (SMEs) companies and small-office, home-offices (SOHOs) throughout European and African nations.
Vodafone Enterprise launched V-Hub in July 2020 to assist SMEs and SOHOs improve their understanding of the complexities of the digital panorama by offering private recommendation on digital transformation.  Vodafone Enterprise is increasing the service later this 12 months to provide each person entry to a bespoke motion plan along with ongoing one-to-one recommendation with an knowledgeable advisor and unique content material at no additional value.

The transfer is designed to assist many extra people and smaller corporations with restricted digital and IT assets acquire the required digital expertise to have the ability to handle networks, productiveness instruments and the cyber safety defences required to compete globally.

It additionally helps the European Fee’s objective for greater than 90 % of SMEs to achieve a fundamental stage of digital depth, and underpins Vodacom’s drive to develop reasonably priced monetary and digital providers at scale in Africa.

“Many SMEs are starved of personalised digital recommendation and providers, and V-Hub goals to alter that. By 2025, we goal to assist seven million customers to digitalise with V-Hub’s sensible and relevant recommendation, and entry to local-to-global digital communities,” Amanda Jobbins, Chief Advertising Officer & Director of Strategic Companions at Vodafone Enterprise, mentioned.

“This can make an actual distinction to the SMEs that make up 90 % of all companies, and make use of between two-thirds and 90 % of employees, in Europe, Egypt, and South Africa the place the service is out there.”

Within the first three months of 2023, greater than 35 % of SMEs and SOHOs have come again to the location, attracted by the recommendation Vodafone Enterprise affords, together with one-to-one conversations with an advisor and usable ideas like search engine optimisation (search engine optimisation) and hybrid working.