By Michael Leeuwen, director of PM Tech Holdings
As a Proudly South African company, PM Tech Holdings is one of SA`s leading enterprise system management (ESM) players.
One of our key strengths is that we`ve developed all our world-class ESM solutions locally - they are Enterprise Gauge, Enterprise Focus and Enterprise Advantage.
With these products we strive to set a new standard for timely implementation and customer service-delivery.
From a company perspective, our market penetration in SA has been very successful in the following industries: financial, telecoms, automotive and government.
Significantly, we were able to compete successfully when the rand was at an all time low. This subsequently gave us a springboard into the African market where we were able to offer the same services and solutions - but even competitively priced - than of the global players.
This has allowed us to grow our market share and build brand awareness. Even though the rand has strengthened significantly, we now build on our reputation and past successes.
At its current level, the rand enables us - and other local IT companies -to strengthen our research and development (R&D), which translates into lower cost of purchase for customers.
What`s noteworthy is that all our product suites have been developed from scratch. We have a dynamic and fresh approach to solving problems built on our experience of working with large local corporates. By understanding the unique challenges in SA, we are able to apply our knowledge to the African marketplace.
Our company has also seen an upsurge of positive young people, which contributes greatly to our future. With a stronger rand and low interest rates we hope that at a lot of younger people will be returning or remaining in the country. In saying this, the SA IT industry is still experiencing a loss of skilled personnel as they are unable to find reasonable employment because they do not fit the correct profile.
Globally we feel that Africa will continue to be a big technology spender in the next few years. This growth will lead to respect and success in the international market.
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