NEC appointed Masahiro Yoshikawa as President to lead NEC’s sub-Saharan African business from its new sub-regional headquarters in Johannesburg and to oversee the expansion of NEC operations in the region with establishment of its branch offices in Kenya and Nigeria. Masahiro Yoshikawa has over 30 years’ experience providing solutions and services to customers around the world and across Africa in the IT and telecoms industry. Most recently he led the business for Middle East and African market as Deputy General Manager and has worked at the International Sales and Operations Business Unit, NEC Corporation.Read More…

South Africa based leading ICT solutions company, The Webcom Group recently signed up an reseller agreement with Huawei to sell range of products and solutions like, video ATMs, networking, data centre and telepresence solutions in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Commenting on the tie-up Pieter le Roux, Technical Director at The Webcom Group, said, “These four mainline product segments broaden our scope of offering, allowing us to deliver a Tier 1 brand to our customers. Huawei’s product offering is competitive and complements our existing offering to customers.”Read More…

Leading WAN optimisation and application performance management solution provider, Exinda recently embarked on its African growth journey with the opening of an office in South Africa to drive the business in African continent. Now, it extended its reach in the continental Africa with the appointment two Kenya based resellers Adwest Communications and IntraCom primarily to cover East African market, while, Mauritius based User-Tech Solutions will cater to Indian Ocean islands region.Read More…

Leading South African ICT solutions provider XON announced that it had partnered with Symantec to offer cloud services in South Africa. As a Symantec Gold Partner, XON has invested heavily in the creation of high-end skills in this area, making it one of the most qualified and experienced Symantec partners to offer such solutions. “Regardless of which industry they are in, customers want a managed service that comes with a guaranteed outcome for a predictable, monthly flat fee. It means that customers do not have to pay for costly on-site security resources, nor do they have to pay exorbitant licensing costs.Read More…

South Africa based leading IT and advisory consultancy Barnstone has been appointed as an exclusive partner for the leading financial software solutions provider, Trintech in sub-Saharan Africa. “Creating financial statements to present to the market has always been an onerous undertaking, and one that has become more and more complex as business has globalised and regulations have proliferated,” says Conrad Steyn, director of Barnstone. “Our clients were continually asking for an industry-leading solution that automated the management of their financial close, replaced fragmented and manual processes with a workflow approach and delivered a high level of control. Trintech delivers all this and more.”Read More…

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…