The content management division of The IQ Business Group, and Venetica, the leading provider of content integration software, today announced a partnership agreement under which The IQ Business Group will be a value-added reseller in South Africa for Venetica.
The IQ Business Group`s Content Management business unit head, Steve Spark, says, "Content integration is a natural complement to our expertise in content management. We recognize that some customers have content management needs while others are looking for better solutions to leverage existing content that lives in disparate systems. Venetica places us in an even stronger position to provide excellent, cost-effective solutions to South African businesses."
VeniceBridge was created to provide customers with a single method for accessing and working with large volumes of content, generated by many separate applications and stored in multiple repositories. VeniceBridge is unique in its ability to provide companies with a single, bi-directional interface to unstructured content, allowing users to leverage existing content and make it available to enterprise applications. According to Gartner Group, content integration efforts will be one of the leading drivers behind enterprise technology through 2007.*
The IQ Business Group says it`s confident that South African companies will quickly see the benefits of leveraging the VeniceBridge solution. Spark says: "It`s an exciting opportunity for The IQ Business Group to help South African companies get ahead of the game, by allowing them to access their wealth of content in the most efficient manner possible. The partnership agreement with Venetica enables The IQ Business Group to offer the South African content user group increased efficiency, as clients can now access multiple repositories through a single interface."
As automated business processes, portals, CRM and other key applications become more reliant on content, the Gartner Group says the ability to provide a single point of integration to various content sources, so that content appears as if it lives in a single virtual repository, is a very important goal. VeniceBridge does just this, while exposing the native functionality of a given repository.
"As global organisations become increasingly dependent on the ability to access content that exists across the enterprise, they`re finding it too expensive to build content-rich applications because the content is managed in diverse repositories, databases and file systems," says Stuart Levinson, president and CEO, Venetica. "With VeniceBridge, companies are able to greatly reduce the cost and complexity of integrating enterprise applications with distributed content. We are pleased to be working with The IQ Business Group to bring this capability directly to the South African market."
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The IQ Business Group is a thought leadership organisation, focusing on the holistic design, implementation and management of business process solutions. The company has grown in four years to a professional services leader that is regarded as one of SA`s premier unlisted business process and technology players.
Starting with a core of 19 professionals in 1998, IQ`s staff complement has grown to 600, most of which are university graduates with skills in commerce and information systems. In addition, IQ sports a set of industry-focused development and operational outsourcing teams focused in the financial services, healthcare, and supply chain industries.
IQ has grown its business by partnering with leading players in niche sectors that see information technology as strategic to their growth objectives. These partners include Investec, Reunert, NSP Buck (Australia) and Nedcor.
The group has operations in Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, Boston and Atlanta in the US and in London in the UK.
Venetica
Venetica is the pioneer and leading provider of content integration software. The company`s flagship product, VeniceBridge, dramatically reduces the cost and complexity associated with creating content-rich applications such as portals, collaborative applications, CRM and others. At the heart of VeniceBridge is a consistent, bi-directional interface that enables applications to quickly integrate with multiple, disparate content repositories and business processes. VeniceBridge delivers further competitive advantage to today`s real-time enterprise by providing relevant views of content and processes that are reusable across enterprise applications.
VeniceBridge is a cross-platform Java product based on a J2EE architecture. Venetica partners with leading software vendors and system integrators in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region to deliver solutions around the world. For more information on Venetica, please visit http://www.venetica.com.
Venetica and VeniceBridge are registered trademarks of Venetica. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
* Seven Areas of Content Management Growth for 2003, 13 November 2002, Gartner.
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