Foster-Melliar students have once again swept the board for awards at this year`s annual itSMFSA conference held on Thursday, 11 August 2005.
Four Foster-Melliar students were awarded top honours in IT service management training, making Foster-Melliar the top ITSM and ITIL training provider in Africa for nine consecutive years. In May 2004, all categories of the itSMFSA gala awards evening were scooped by Foster-Melliar IT service management students.
Star performer, Ruan Maritz, an enterprise strategy consultant at Microsoft SA, achieved the highest marks ever recorded by a Foster-Melliar student through the Information Systems Examination Board (ISEB), achieving a double distinction for the Manager`s Certificate in ITSM. Joint award winners for the Foundation Certificate in ITSM were Nelie Mostert of Accenture, Dirk Smit of Nebula Solutions and Sagaran Naidoo of Computer Associates.
Locally Foster-Melliar provides the broadest range of ITSM solutions based on IT Infrastructure Library`s (ITIL) Best Practice, designed to align business requirements and bottom line objectives with IT service delivery. The company has consistently boasted the top students in IT service management training for the last nine years as identified by the itSMFSA, an independent industry body for companies and practitioners in the IT service industry.
Foster-Melliar, a wholly owned subsidiary of black owned Xantium Technology Holdings Limited, is the leading local provider and pioneer of ITIL and IT service management in SA since 1994. Driven towards optimising IT services within organisations, Foster-Melliar offers a host of solutions to assist companies capitalise on their IT investments. Foster-Melliar focuses on an end-to-end service management solution in the form of training and consulting services.
FM Software, a division of Foster-Melliar, boasts a broad range of software products that assists organisations to manage and control their infrastructure and in doing so, dramatically improves the efficiencies and effectiveness of their IT services while proactively managing their costs.
For more information on Foster-Melliar, visit www.foster-melliar.co.za.
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