EOH Gallium announced as 2010 HP Software Partner of the Year for SA

Issued by Watt Communications: for EOH

Johannesburg, 04 Feb 2011

EOH Gallium, a certified HP platinum partner and a division of EOH Global Application Solutions (GAS), has been named as the 2010 EMEA HP Software Partner of the Year for South Africa at the recent HP Software Universe 2010 event, hosted in Barcelona, Spain.

“It is a tremendous accolade for EOH Gallium,” says Managing Director Haydn Pinnell. EOH Gallium specialises in performance management, quality and security testing, and is able to deliver integrated IT management capabilities that span project and portfolio management, application life cycle management and IT service management through HP's powerful portfolio of BTO software.

HP Software South Africa has progressively grown its business over the last few years, says Praveen Govender, HP Software Country Manager: South Africa. “This has been achieved to a large extent due to our strategic partnership with EOH Gallium, which has made a significant investment in the relevant skills required to deliver business value through our portfolio of IT Management Portfolio. This commitment from EOH Gallium has earned them the Partner of Year award for 2010 and we look forward to strengthening our relationship and to jointly provide better business outcomes for our customers,” says Govender.

EOH Gallium received the HP Software Partner of the Year Award for generating the highest revenue and degree of customer satisfaction in South Africa. “EOH Gallium and HP are committed to providing leading insights and the successful launch of user group forums last year, allow both parties to share the latest information on products, technology and services,” says Pinnell.

“HP's world-class selection of BTO products provides the tools that offer an integrated IT management solution, which delivers credibility and competency, both of which are key to demonstrating value to a business,” concludes Pinnell.

EOH GAS

EOH Global Application Solutions includes South Africa's largest HP software platinum partner, EOH Gallium, as well as EOH Global Testing Solutions (EOH GTS), EOH Global Monitoring Services (EOH GMS) and EOH Governance Process Automation (EOH GPA). EOH GAS focuses on providing innovative end-to-end application testing, monitoring and governance services and solutions.

Gallium

Gallium, a member of the EOH group of companies, supplies business technology optimisation solutions from HP Software, specialised technology-based professional services, training, managed services, test factory solutions and ad hoc quality and performance testing services.

EOH

EOH is a business and technology solutions provider creating lifelong partnerships by developing business and IT strategies, supplying and implementing solutions and managing enterprise-wide business systems and processes for medium to large clients.

EOH operates in the following three clusters of business units as a fully integrated business:

Technology - Through a number of subsidiary companies, EOH is able to sell, implement and support a range of world-class business applications including ERP, CRM, business intelligence, advanced planning and scheduling, e-commerce and manufacturing execution systems (MES).

Consulting - Concentrated under the EOH Consulting brand are business units offering services ranging from strategic and business process consulting, project services, change management, supply chain optimisation and education.

Outsourcing - EOH offers comprehensive maintenance and support of client's IT infrastructure and applications through the rendering of full IT outsourcing, application hosting and managed services. In addition, EOH offers full business process outsourcing (BPO) services.

EOH has a presence in all major centres in South Africa and operates in the rest of Africa.

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