Lava Systems Africa, a BEE company in which Tshimong Investment Holdings is a 30% shareholder and which is also an affinity partner of Canadian-based Open Text Corporation, today announced the appointment of Abe Moloele as its Managing Director.
Moloele originally joined the IT industry via Burroughs Machines, in the early 1980s and has fulfilled a number of assignments since then across a variety of industries, including his own distribution business that was created in the 1990s. In 2002, Moloele, together with six other black professionals, established Tshimong Investment Holdings.
"I am a strong supporter of the vision of Open Text and the technologies and solutions they provide in the area of enterprise content management (ECM) I strongly believe that ECM and ECM solutions are the key technologies that will dominate the market over the next few years in a similar way that ERP has become paramount over the past two decades," commented Moloele.
"Thus, one of my key objectives is to establish Lava as a leader in the provision of ECM solutions and ECM consulting within southern Africa. We are already fortunate in having some of the top South African Livelink skills within the company as well as an individual who is rated as one of the top Livelink skills resource globally."
Moloele is still a director of Tshimong Investment Holdings, a group of black professionals that have recognised the need to combine their collective experience to address transformation requirements, while still creating value within the South African marketplace.
Mokati Ramphele, the General Manager of sub-Saharan Africa for Cisco, has also been appointed a non-executive director of Lava Systems Africa. He is also a director of Tshimong Investment Holdings.
For further information, please contact Iain McMurray, Lava Systems Africa: telephone 011 675-3704, fax 011 675-1021, e-mail ianm@lavasystems.co.za
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Open Text is the market leader in providing ECM solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organisations. Since launching the world`s first Internet search engine and the first Web-based enterprise collaboration and knowledge management software, Open Text continued its leadership in providing global enterprises with innovative and effective solutions.
Throughout its history, Open Text has matched its tradition of innovation with a track record of financial strength and growth. Today, the Canadian-based company supports 15 million seats across deployments in 31 countries and 12 languages worldwide and includes among its client base the governments of Australia, Canada and Japan; the UK Metropolitan Police; the United Nations and the US Department of Defence. Open Text`s flagship product, Livelink seamlessly combines collaboration with content management, helping organisations transform information into knowledge in order to provide the foundation for innovation, compliance and accelerated growth.
Open Text acquired Germany`s Ixos Software AG in February this year to become the largest ECM software vendor in Europe and the largest pure-play ECM software vendor in the world, according to Bradley West, an analyst with Southwest Securities.
Lava Systems
The Lava Systems Africa (Pty) Ltd team originated in the late 1990s with the objective of becoming a premier supplier of enterprise systems based around knowledge management, document management, records management, image management, scanning and workflow solutions. The emerging demands that were identified included government process re-engineering, supply chain co-ordination, customer relationship management, e-government and B2B processing. In support of these business aims, the technology platforms chosen had to enjoy a proven global track record and adhere to open Internet architecture standards and developments.
Lava Systems Africa is now a South African-based BEE company dedicated to the sales, marketing, support and consultancy based around the Livelink product from Open Text, a product that the staff have been involved with since 1998. Lava Systems Africa`s user base embraces customers from both the private and public sector and includes organisations such as Bateman Projects Limited, Alexander Forbes, the Gauteng Provincial Government and the National Social Security Fund of Uganda.
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