Logical, Datatec`s UK-based e-business integration and services company, has announced it has appointed Urs Brawand as its worldwide director of e-business solutions.
Brawand previously held the position of president and managing director of Swiss-based e-integration and services company Conexus AG. He was the co-founder of Conexus AG and its spin-off company, Conexus Global Information, which was created to deliver e-business focused solutions. Both are now part of Logical and key centres of excellence that will facilitate the roll-out of Logical`s global e-business solutions strategy. Brawand`s role at Logical will include growing the company`s e-applications portfolio, the building blocks of any e-business solution and refining the overall e-business solutions strategy.
Brawand is a veteran of the industry, bringing with him 10 years experience in the development of e-business applications. He has been instrumental in Logical`s transformation to a complete end-to-end provider of e-business solutions and services, and has been responsible for the development of key international vendor partnerships with Logical for the provision of e-business applications.
An essential component of Brawand`s e-business strategy has been to forge key industry partnerships and alliances with leading applications developers in the e-business space. These partnerships will form the backbone of Logical`s e-business solutions offering and includes alliances with BroadVision, Catalog, eBX, the SAS Institute, Siebel and Autonomy.
The e-business solutions division is one of the core elements of Logical`s global e-business integration strategy alongside the company`s e-infrastructure solutions division, led by infrastructure solutions director, Steve Moxey.
Says Stephen Lawrence, CEO of Logical: "We believe that by providing leading e-business applications and the high availability, high security infrastructures on which they must run, we have an important differentiator in the international market for e-business services."
Logical`s e-business applications can be developed and integrated within a customers existing infrastructure or outsourced through Logical`s worldwide network of eBOC`s (e-Business operation centres).
Says Brawand: "The development of structured and formalised value-adds around a B2B transaction is key to Logical`s success in providing tangible e-business solutions for mid-sized companies, whether as a tailored solution within a customers premises or through our e-BOC Managed Service Provider (MSP) services."
"We are forging key partnerships and alliances which, together with our existing skills base, places us in a very strong position. The programme of alliances and partnerships is well under way, strengthening Logical`s core competencies and skills."
Brawand will report directly to Lawrence.
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Logical is an e-business integration and professional services company with operations worldwide and is a division of JSE-listed Datatec Ltd (www.datatec-group.com). By applying its skills in integrating best-of-breed technologies, Logical designs, builds, manages and maintains customised infrastructures and applications for organisations transitioning themselves into e-businesses for the New Economy. These Internet-based solutions deliver tangible cost, convenience and time saving advantages and range from single applications sourced from Logical, through entire information infrastructures backed by services and running large e-business applications, to completely outsourced e-business solutions run from Logical`s e-Business Operating Centres (eBOCs) situated in key locations around the world. Logical`s customers are medium-sized companies and departments of larger enterprises. Logical is headquartered in London, UK and employs more than 2,000 people across operations in the USA, South America, Europe, South Africa and Australasia. For further information, visit: www.logical.com