Mendix, the enterprise app platform as a service provider, and Pink Elephant, the international IT management company, today announced an expanded strategic partnership. Building upon the existing Mendix implementation services and industry solutions developed by its EMEA counterparts, Pink Elephant South Africa is expanding its operations with a Mendix Center of Excellence to better support local, and offshore, application development and delivery requirements.
Pink Elephant Netherlands has been an active Mendix partner for several years, offering implementation services to help clients quickly deliver custom Mendix applications. The company has also built reputable industry solutions on the Mendix App Platform, such as Claims2020, a business app platform for claims management. Building upon this track record, the South African operation will add to its team of local Mendix experts in the areas of implementation, support and sales in order to offer additional capacity available to support Mendix projects and apps.
"Pink Elephant's strategic partnership with Mendix allows us to combine our deep industry and domain knowledge with the speed and flexibility of the platform to deliver immediate business value for clients," said Piet van Vugt, CEO of Pink Elephant Netherlands. "Expanding our South African operations with a Mendix Center of Excellence is a natural next step in our long and fruitful relationship."
"In line with our strategy to diversify our offering to the market," follows Neil Petford, Regional Director for Africa at Pink Elephant, "we're further positioning to meet the growing application delivery demands in the region, and intend to localise more of our European portfolio to the benefit of existing and future customer base."
"We are very impressed by Pink Elephant's deep commitment to Mendix and its success in the South African market," said Derek Roos, CEO and Co-Founder of Mendix. "We are looking forward to working with their growing team of experts to help more and more companies use Mendix to innovate and compete with apps."
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Mendix is the app platform as a service company for the enterprise. It enables companies to build, integrate and deploy Web and mobile applications faster and with better results, effectively driving ROI in days, not months. For more information, visit www.Mendix.com and follow the company on Twitter @Mendix.
Pink Elephant
Pink Elephant is an international knowledge leader in the field of business innovation and business change. With advisory and IT services, Pink Elephant draws the best out of its clients, by translating knowledge and creativity of the people in these organisations into tangible results. Since its foundation in 1980, Pink Elephant recognises an important synergy between company objectives and the knowledge and entrepreneurship of people, as well as the way in which IT contributes significantly to making innovation possible and to increasing power of discernment in the market. Pink Elephant operates in more than 20 countries and provides education, business and management consultancy and other complementary IT services.
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