Cornastone Enterprise Management Solutions (EMS), part of black-owned and managed enterprise solutions integration company Cornastone, has been appointed as an official HP OpenView Services Integrator (SVI) partner.
According to Dion Williams, managing director of Cornastone EMS, the company is the first in SA to qualify for SVI partner status. The SVI programme is the highest level of collaboration for support services between HP and selected software business partners.
"Cornastone`s extensive integration and implementation skills, as well as our ability to provide customers with a comprehensive localised support infrastructure, played a critical role in our SVI partner certification," says Williams.
"We provide the customer with a complete lifecycle service solution - from design and deployment to support and maintenance. Because we understand the customer`s IT environment and unique challenges, we can provide optimal support levels.
"Our status as an OpenView SVI partner assures our customers of the fact that we have the relevant skills and expertise they require to have their systems up and running at optimum performance levels. Indeed, we provide a single point of contact for customers` HP support services needs," he adds.
The Cornastone call centre, which was established in November 2004, will manage first and second line support on a 24x7 basis for South African customers utilising HP hardware and software solutions.
"No ordinary company earns the privilege of becoming a SVI partner," says Dylan Grey, software sales specialist at HP. "But Cornastone is no ordinary company.
"It has the skills, infrastructure and professionalism to serve customers on all matters relating to HP OpenView - and the commitment to meet HP`s high service performance standards.
"The combination of Cornastone and HP`s capabilities means that customers have access to a complete end-to-end solution provider, supporting all aspects of a business`s computing needs," he concludes.
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Cornastone is a black owned company founded by two IT professionals and entrepreneurs with an extensive track record of delivering business value to stakeholders. Lufuno Nevhutalu, a founder of Yashu Solutions (Pty) Limited, before merging Yashu Solutions business interests into Computer Configurations Holdings Limited in 1998, brings entrepreneurship and proven business leadership skills.
Hamilton Ratshefola, a former IBM and CCH executive director, has extensive business leadership and sales experience. Ratshefola led the IBM Public Sector business from a R30 million business in 1995 to a R300 million business in 1999.
BMI-T Forge Ahead and Black IT Forum honoured both Ratshefola and Nevhutalu as members of Top 20 Black IT Professionals in South Africa in 1999.
In 2001, Cornastone was HP VAR of the Year with over R80 million of sales in HP enterprise infrastructure. In 2002, Cornastone was voted the ICT Top Achiever Company of the Year 2002 with sales around R100 million.
Cornastone has assembled an array of highly skilled professionals at management and technical level, with outstanding track records in sales and solutions delivery.
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