The Helium platform was designed to allow rapid deployment of applications and integrations within Africa. To accomplish this it uses a custom DSL to express logic and initiate business services. Baked into the platform is the ability to integrate with the most popular services in Africa namely USSD, SMS aggregators and mobile money (mPesa). Even though the stack runs on Java EE it does not have to in the future. The second version is planned to be a micro/business level framework with the ability to express logic in JavaScript.
At the heart of it, the system exists to allow telco's to get 3rd party developers to build business logic for applications at a fraction of the cost, with the peace of mind. The peace of mind comes from knowing that the code runs on a platform that is scalable, safe and supports enterprise-grade applications.
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