{"id":21521,"date":"2018-09-11T11:18:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T10:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=21521"},"modified":"2018-09-11T11:18:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T10:18:29","slug":"xperien-partners-with-merchant-west-to-offer-it-life-cycle-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2018\/09\/11\/xperien-partners-with-merchant-west-to-offer-it-life-cycle-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Xperien partners with Merchant West to offer IT life-cycle solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xperien has partnered with independent financial services company Merchant West to provide continuous IT life-cycle solutions, a fresh line of alternative funding to reduce the cost of IT assets. The partnership offers a full end-to-end IT Asset Life-cycle solution from acquisition to financing, management and disposal.<\/p>\n<p>Merchant West will structure a finance deal that reduces total usage cost of any IT asset and now offers finance options that have no impact on existing funding from other financial institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Monique Watson, Head of Technology Asses Finance at Merchant West, said that by partnering with Xperien, its customers can now benefit from the use of brand new IT equipment at a subsidised rate below prime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the new equipment finance option, they can now make use of Merchant West\u2019s fresh funding lines to finance Xperien\u2019s continuous IT life-cycle solutions,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the rapid rate at which technology changes and depreciates in real terms, partnering with Xperien allows Merchant West to offer a holistic Asset Life-cycle Product to its clients, from inception right through to the end of the asset\u2019s useful life where clients can further benefit from the end of life-cycle value added services, such as data destruction, reverse IT logistics and disposal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Xperien CEO Wale Arewa is excited about the prospects of the partnership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now offer clients flexibility and peace of mind at the end of an asset life-cycle term through our continuous IT life-cycle solutions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey now have an option to return their assets and finance the new equipment via Merchant West.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xperien has partnered with independent financial services company Merchant West to provide continuous IT life-cycle solutions, a fresh line of alternative funding to reduce the cost of IT assets. The partnership offers a full end-to-end IT Asset Life-cycle solution from acquisition to financing, management and disposal. Merchant West will structure a finance deal that reduces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":21522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[565,5,399],"tags":[6584,6585,6150,1968],"class_list":["post-21521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-finance","category-enterprise-security","category-more-news","tag-merchant-west","tag-monique-watson","tag-wale-arewa","tag-xperien"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21523,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21521\/revisions\/21523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}