In today’s retail landscape, success depends on more than intuition. Retailers, manufacturers, and distributors are navigating increasing complexity, from shifting consumer behaviour and supply chain disruption to rising operational costs and accelerating digital transformation. To compete effectively, businesses need greater visibility, smarter decision-making, and technology that delivers measurable outcomes.
This is where Smollan Technologies, Smollan’s dedicated data, software and AI business, comes in.
Launched in March 2026, Smollan Technologies brings together some of the retail industry’s most trusted data, software, AI, and cloud businesses under one unified brand. By combining the expertise of heritage brands Argility, DataOrbis, FleetDomain, MediaMetrics, and Skydata, Smollan Technologies creates a connected retail technology ecosystem designed to help clients achieve one critical goal: retail precision.
What Is Retail Precision?
Retail precision is the ability to make the right decision at the right moment across every stage of the retail value chain.
From demand forecasting and pricing optimisation to warehouse management, retail execution, and last-mile delivery, precision creates a competitive advantage. It enables businesses to reduce waste, improve margins, increase product availability, and create better customer experiences.
At Smollan Technologies, retail precision is powered by the integration of three core capabilities:
Data & AI
Data is one of the most valuable assets in modern retail, but only when it can be transformed into actionable insight.
Smollan Technologies helps businesses unlock the value of their data through advanced analytics, predictive modelling, artificial intelligence, image recognition, and retail intelligence solutions. By connecting data across the organisation, clients gain real-time visibility into performance, demand patterns, shopper behaviour, pricing opportunities, and execution effectiveness.
The result is faster decision-making and greater confidence in every commercial action.
Software Solutions
Technology should simplify operations, not complicate them.
Smollan Technologies delivers retail technology solutions and software platforms that support critical business functions across the retail ecosystem. These include retail execution platforms, retail media solutions, fleet and asset management software, category management solutions, and logistics optimisation platforms.
Designed specifically for retail environments, these solutions help businesses improve operational efficiency, automate manual processes, and create more connected ways of working.
Cloud Infrastructure & Advisory
Digital transformation requires a strong foundation.
As a Google Premier Partner ranking in the top 3% globally within its group, Smollan Technologies helps retailers, manufacturers and distributors modernise their technology environments, scale cloud infrastructure, and accelerate AI adoption.
From Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace to enterprise data architecture and governance, the business helps clients build secure, scalable environments that support long-term growth.
A Connected Ecosystem for Modern Retail
Historically, businesses often needed multiple vendors, contracts, and technology platforms to address different retail challenges. This created complexity, slowed innovation, and made it difficult to unlock the full value of available data.
Smollan Technologies changes that.
By bringing together specialist expertise under one brand, clients gain access to a connected ecosystem that spans analytics, AI, software, cloud services, retail operations, and supply chain technology. Solutions can be deployed individually or integrated to create end-to-end visibility across the retail value chain.
This approach enables organisations to move from fragmented systems to connected intelligence.
Built on Retail Expertise
What makes Smollan Technologies unique is its deep connection to the broader Smollan business.
With decades of experience helping brands win at the point of purchase, Smollan understands the realities of retail better than most technology providers. This retail-first perspective ensures that every solution is designed to solve real business challenges and deliver measurable commercial impact.
Today, Smollan Technologies supports clients across more than 20 markets through a team of over 400 data and technology specialists. Together, they are helping retailers, manufacturers, and distributors turn complexity into clarity, data into action, and technology into growth.
As retail continues to evolve, Smollan Technologies is empowering organisations to make smarter decisions, execute with greater precision, and build a more connected future.
Learn more about how Smollan Technologies is helping retailers, manufacturers and distributors achieve retail precision through data analytics, software solutions AI, and cloud transformation in South Africa and across the globe.
