Blue Turtle Technologies recently signed up an sole distribution agreement with Nolio to distribute its products and services across southern Africa. Apart from sales, Blue Turtle will also offer sales support, training and implementation of Nolio Application Service Automation Platform (Nolio ASAP) in Southern Africa region. Nolio ASAP automates release deployment processes of multi tier, distributed applications and their configuration settings across the application life cycle in different environments.
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Bytes Systems announced revolutionary mobile applications as the next step in its vision for the next generation of workforce management. Kronos’s new mobile applications improve productivity by making it easier for managers and employees to complete a wide range of workforce-related tasks using a variety of mobile devices. Kronos’s mobile applications give employees and managers flexibility in how they interact with each other and provide an anytime, anyplace, instant connection to the Kronos Workforce Central suite.
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Square Enix the leading gaming vendor recently teamed up with Megarom to distribute all its new releases in South Africa. This new tie-up will further consolidate Megarom’s position as the leading distributor of interactive video games in South Africa. Megarom, since its inception over 10 years ago has been to be a totally focused gaming products distributor and to only represent interactive gaming publishers with long standing reputations of producing high quality titles that the gamers know and trust and will always support at retail. Square Enix fits Megarom’s distribution model perfectly.

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RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, signed a distribution agreement with Kenya based Ramani Geosystems to distribute RapidEye products throughout the entire continent of Africa except Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Western Sahara.Read More…

NEC Unified Solutions, specialists in communication solutions for small, medium and large enterprises in both the private and public sectors, recently announced the appointment of ENCOM. Morocco based ENCOM will be distributing NEC’s complete range of solutions including its UNIVERGE SV8000 Series communication servers as well as applications for the growing SMB and Enterprise market segments. ENCOM specialises in network, telecom and multimedia solutions. The company has been building professional solutions for local business, commercial, educational and government clients since 1991. The NEC UNIVERGE SV8000 series is designed to deliver next-generation, open standards-based solutions that provide businesses the capability of offering advanced applications and the flexibility for growth. The product range together with the full range of applications for Mobility, Unified Communications and effective Management allows enterprises to create new ways of generating revenue and increasing customer responsiveness while simultaneously improving efficiency and reducing costs.
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Samsung unveiled its new partner program for Africa by laying down the importance on building relationships with their valued channel partners. The Program has been set up primarily to ensure the availability of a value channel to serve Samsung customers in the best way possible and create customer delight. It has also been put in place to incentivise the value reseller channel through differentiation and increased profitability. The program is designed to help differentiate partner services and ensure partner credibility, which in turn, provides a platform for end-users to not only access the company’s database of partners, but provides peace of mind in that they are dealing with a Samsung accredited and authorised retailer.
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Google is announcing the launch of Umbono, its new technology incubator, which will be based in Cape Town, South Africa. Bringing together seed capital, Google mentorship, angel investors, local tech stars, entrepreneurs and business leaders, the Umbono programme will help selected start-up teams transform their ideas into companies. Google hopes that Umbono will further encourage the growth of the developer community and support the country’s already flourishing tech sector.
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Deffinity MSA Limited a leading UK software company providing hosted (SaaS) Project Delivery solutions to IT Vendors, Integrators, Architects, Media Companies, Consulting firms, Local Government and the global Financial Services sector, today announced the opening of their new office in South Africa. South Africa office will be headed by the new Business Development Director, Bryan Mutambiranwa, who incidentally is also an Director at UK based Deffinity Africa Ltd., and the new office will also serve as Deffinity’s Head Office within continental Africa.
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With hundreds of convenience stores attached to its filling stations across Africa and ambitious plans for further expansion, oil and gas company Engen needed rugged Point of Sale (PoS) equipment that could withstand harsh environments as well as serve as a long term solution. Compatibility with its other peripherals was also vital.
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New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (ipcommunications.frost.com), Survival Strategies for Fixed-line Telecommunications Operators in Sub-Saharan Africa, finds that the market earned revenues of $6.78 billion in 2008 and estimates this to reach $12.25 billion in 2015. The fixed-line technologies covered in this research include copper-wire network, fibre-optic network, dial-up, asymmetricRead More…