RangeGate SA, Datatec`s mobile solutions subsidiary, has been named as 2002`s most admired mobile solutions provider in a survey of SA`s top 150 corporate IT users.
RangeGate took top honours ahead of Hewlett-Packard and IBM. This long-established award programme, run by ComputerWeek Strategist magazine, recognises those who are setting the standard in terms of service and business benefits for their customers.
Corporate IT users were asked to rate solution providers out of six on their consulting skills, quality of solution, being on time and on budget, and service levels. RangeGate`s average score across the categories was 5.78, with second placed HP recording 5.29.
Although the market share of the solution providers in the various solution categories was examined, the quality of the solutions they deliver was more heavily weighted.
Says Gordon Edwards, CEO of RangeGate: "We recognise that our customers look to us to provide more than just technology. RangeGate`s industry experience and knowledge of the correct application of mobile technology to business processes ensures that we are able to deliver real efficiencies and return on investment."
Datatec Executive Director David Pfaff says RangeGate`s success in developing mobile solutions that are highly rated by customers and users is a further demonstration of Datatec`s strategic approach.
"Technology talent-spotting has always been a key element of Datatec`s business. Overall, the tech sector remains under pressure and our approach is to concentrate on significant niches where the opportunities and rewards are greatest," says Pfaff.
For more about Datatec and RangeGate, click on the links below:
Datatec: http://www.datatec.co.za
RangeGate: http://www.rangegate.com
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Datatec is an international networking and IT services group with operations in Europe, North America, South America, Africa and the Asia Pacific region. The group generates more than 95% of its revenue in hard currency outside SA.
The group provides active management support in the strategic direction and operation of its subsidiaries and has three principal lines of business:
Westcon, a global channel provider of advanced networking, security, data and voice communications and convergence products, based in the US and the largest distributor worldwide of equipment in this sector, with operations in many countries:
Logical, an international professional services and IT network integration group headquartered in London and with operations in more than 10 countries; and Mason Group, a strategic telecommunications consultancy headquartered in the UK and focusing on European clients.
The group also has similarly focused operations in SA. These are Westcon AME, Affinity Logic and RangeGate.
RangeGate
RangeGate focuses entirely on leveraging mobile technologies to give its customers a competitive-edge - a Mobile Edge - in their supply chain and service operations. The business is 83.6% owned by JSE Securities Exchange-listed Datatec, the global networking and IT services company.
RangeGate`s MOBILE-EDGE solutions cater to the full range of supply chain and service operations, focusing mainly on warehouse and distribution control, electronic proof of delivery, in-store fulfilment and field service enablement.
Strategic partnerships include Symbol, SAP, Microsoft, Lotus/IBM and Oracle. South African blue-chip clients include Pick `n Pay, Delta Corporation, Daimler Chrysler, World Bank, Toyota, Robertsons, Clicks, Ster-Kinekor, Mondi, Wooltru, Johnson & Johnson, MTN, Iscor, Biliton and Bromor. UK clients include Scottish Courage, Sainsburys, Orange, Littlewoods, Famac, Lojics, AAH Pharmaceuticals and Glanbia.
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