Enterprise software company Bytes Business Solutions (BBS), has formed a partnership with local information asset solution provider, Ascential Software, based on the international agreement between Ascential Software and Business Objects. BBS represents Business Objects locally.
BBS will resell Ascential`s DataStage data integration suite of products with its BusinessObjects Application Foundation and Ascential will resell Business Objects` BusinessObjects and WebIntelligence from BBS.
BusinessObjects is a scalable solution for e-business intelligence and a Business Intelligence (BI) tool that enables users to access, analyse and share information stored in multiple data sources within and beyond the enterprise. WebIntelligence provides similar capabilities over intranets and extranets for the benefit of customers, partners and suppliers.
Alastair Jacobs, product manager at Ascential Software SA, says: "The partnership with BBS allows us to leverage one of the biggest installed BI customer-bases in SA, over 200 clients."
Ascential Software, has over 1 600 customers worldwide, Locally these include AngloGold, BoE, Liberty Life, Sasol, Vodacom, Telkom, CNA and Naspers. BBS is the thirteenth local DataStage channel partner.
Jacobs adds that the partnership will kick-off in the new year following training of sales and technical staff in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
The Business Objects and Ascential Software solutions mutually complement one another. "Bytes is looking to offer a total BI solution and we provide the ETL component," says Jacobs. ETL is the extraction, transformation and loading of data within the business to ensure reliable data quality on which the organisation can depend and underpins the DataStage offering.
Birgitta Cederstrom, product manager at BBS, says the addition of the DataStage suite of products to her portfolio allows her to offer a complete BI solution to customers as opposed to standalone products.
BBS will target the local top 300 companies which, Cederstrom says, typically have both the need and budget for a data warehouse implementation or an existing data warehouse.
The BBS solution is suitable for a range of industries ranging across the financial sector, mining, telecoms, pharmaceutical, medical schemes, FMCG - in fact, any area where large volumes of data are handled.
Existing BBS customers include: Sanlam, Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, Anglo Gold, Anglo Platinum, Group 5 and MedScheme.
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