Wednesday, 19 March 2014 00:00
Written by Staff writer
Sven Lesicnik, LSD Information Technology
LSD Information Technology has been named a Red Hat Training Partner for Middleware in South Africa. LSD is currently the only certified organisation in South Africa to offer local certified Red Hat JBoss Middleware training courses. To attain the latest certification and be able to deliver Red Hat JBoss Middleware training, LSD trainers attended rigorous training courses and achieved certification in Red Hat JBoss Middleware products, followed by a ‘train the trainer’ programme, as well as passing relevant examinations.
Britehouse has used SNP Transformation Backbone to ease phase one of the consolidation of the Zimbabwean and South African instances of
SAP for PPC. The three-month project entailed the migration of financial and master data as well as two years of transactional history from the PPC Zimbabwean company to the PPC South African
SAP landscape. “It’s remarkable that we finished the project on time and on budget in only three months,” says
Janeen Duckitt, Britehouse Account Manager for PPC.
Janeen Duckitt, Britehouse
Connection Telecom, a South African cloud-based PBX solutions provider, plans to take on rampant business demand for voice over IP (VOIP) by focusing equally on channel partnerships and growing its private and public hosted client base. The company spoke about its strategies ahead of the year in which research firm BMI-T predicts that the market will grow from R84 million to R128 million (year-on-year growth of 53%). The report “South African PBX and Emerging Voice Market Report – 2013” predicts continued runaway growth for the next four years until 2017, when the market will be worth R405 million – an estimated compound annual growth rate of 148%.
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Dave Meintjes, Connection Telecom" />Chequed.com, a cloud-based predictive talent selection solutions provider, has partnered with Rocketfuel Consulting in partnership with The HR Touch, two African-based people management consulting firms. The partnership follows on Chequed’s success with several recent global deployments with its employment assessment tools that connect talent selection to business results. “Rocketfuel and The HR Touch are comprised of a group of management consultants with in-depth knowledge of HR, organisational effectiveness and talent solutions, and we are confident that they will make an ideal partner for Chequed.com within the Africa environment,” says Greg Moran, president and founder of Chequed.com.
IWayAfrica, has partnered with Panda Security to extend its range of cloud offerings to provide its business customers with Panda’s cloud-based
security products. According to a statement, the two companies see the partnership as an opportunity to provide new and existing customers with peace of mind and superior customer service. “We are pleased to be associated with this leading Internet service provider,” says
Jeremy Matthews, SA country manager for Panda.
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