Tellumat, the innovative South African technology group, has called on government to provide more structured and vocal support for local businesses.
Rasheed Hargey, Tellumat’s CEO, qualifies his plea on behalf of industry: “It’s not a call for preferential treatment or bailouts, just for a levelling of the playing field. The issue is that even the most [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Tellumat urges more vocal government support for local business
July 20, 2009 – 6:19 pm
Competition is not for sissies – Metacom
July 14, 2009 – 11:38 am
Competition is not for sissies, as many South African firms are discovering. The effects of global competition are being felt far beyond the headline-grabbing clothing and motor industries, in IT, electronics, engineering, and just about every other sector.
Indian and Chinese companies are beginning to win large tenders, often against local companies that probably believed that [...]
Unisys, IT Naledi create an BEE success story
July 14, 2009 – 11:34 am
IT Naledi, a black-owned company spun out of multinational Unisys in 2007, has become a model of successful enterprise development.
“IT Naledi employees own 49% of the business and the directors own the remaining 51%” explained IT Naledi’s Hashiem Bardien, “So the creation of IT Naledi has given all of us an opportunity to build an [...]
Managed IT services in the sweet spot as recession bites
July 14, 2009 – 11:24 am
Difficult economic times tempt companies to make drastic cost cuts – but leaders should take care not to undermine their chances of long-term success in the process, says Hashiem Bardien of IT infrastructure services and solutions company IT Naledi.
“In previous downturns we’ve seen a lot of companies outsource their entire IT infrastructure and management as [...]
Don’t leave fax out of your virtualisation plan
July 10, 2009 – 3:06 pm
With more and more South African companies moving to adopt the benefits of server virtualisation, corporate fax specialist Vox Amvia has reminded its customers not to leave fax servers out of their virtualisation strategies.
“Many of our RightFax clients are implementing or planning server virtualisation projects to take advantage of benefits like maximising the value of [...]
African bank embraces innovative fax technology
July 10, 2009 – 3:04 pm
African Bank Investments Limited (ABIL), incorporating leading credit provider African Bank and furniture retailer Ellerines, has streamlined its operations and trimmed costs by integrating its faxing using a RightFax server from Vox Amvia.
“Fax is still an important part of the banking business,” says ABIL systems manager Tinus Rautenbach. “It’s used a lot in the bank’s [...]
Is blind global cost-cutting driving SA’s recession?
July 3, 2009 – 3:51 pm
Should South Africa, based on the fundamentals of its economy, be in recession? We are certainly being driven into it, partly by blind cost-cutting orders emanating from the global head offices of multinational companies.
A significant proportion of our clients with overseas head offices have reported being ordered to freeze all capex spending and severely [...]
