According to AST Networks, it is not the data, the hardware or the software that affect business processes, it is the way they integrate with one another in a holistic system.
In a continuous effort to ensure total connectivity for its clients, AST Networks continues to strengthen its established converged enterprise communications solutions and services offering that provides a full suite of data networking products, which opens up the lines of communication for clients, and their business-critical data and applications.
The full spectrum of networks and enterprise communications products, solutions and services, spanning data networks, voice networks, client contact zones and the convergence and integration of these infrastructures.
"No organisation can survive the rapidly changing international environment without access to information and the ability to interpret trends. In fact, the ability to use data effectively has become a key to success," explains Francois van der Merwe of AST Networks.
"Traditionally the physical infrastructure has been seen as the critical component for business success in the networking space," explains Francois van der Merwe of AST Networks. "This has changed. The market increasingly realises that the end result - the business process - is the core element that enables business to make decisions rapidly in line with market conditions and expectations in the global market."
AST Networks understands these business drivers and has consequently selected a team of technical experts with business acumen to analyse changing market conditions from a global perspective, "Africanise" it and package it in such a way as to give the client a tangible edge.
"A core component of this execution will be technology roadmaps aligned with business drivers giving executives the ability to quickly and effectively adapt to changing expectations and deliverables demanded by investors, clients and the company itself," says Van der Merwe.
In terms of practical methodology, real partnerships are the way forward.
"We actively engage in constructive partnerships, working together with our clients for them to benefit from real technology advances. In practice, we take vertical expertise in various industries within the AST Group and marry this to our clients` needs or business drivers in relation to deliverable and measurable outcome-based solutions.
"But partnerships must go a lot further even to the extent of sharing risk," says Van der Merwe. "If we suggest and implement a solution, bottom line profitability of our clients must improve.
"Based on this principle, cost no longer becomes the driving force in the decision to engage with AST Networks. We offer outcome- and reward-based solutions. This incorporates off balance sheet items, rental agreements, long-term shared award agreements and, for the traditional player, a new way of engaging with the traditional concept, namely, IT networking," he explains.
To support AST Network`s offering, the company has forged relationships with leading international hardware and software vendors such as Cisco, Nortel and 3Com.
"By reaching top international certification in record time, we do not come with the baggage associated with other companies in the marketplace. Also, having plotted the course forward based on current international IT roadmaps, we have no cost associated with traditional legacies accumulated by IT resellers that were unsuccessful in adapting to and delivering in changing market conditions. Our clients see the benefit of this both from a technology and a cost to deployment perspective," he concluded.
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