Applications and systems integrator, Scala Africa, has been awarded Enterprise Partner status by the local office of Seagate Software.
The company, which targets the ERP, EBMS, and CRM markets, among others, sees the appointment as one that will enable it to implement Business Intelligence (BI) solutions at sites throughout Africa.
Scala CEO, Shamik Sinha, says that the company will be able to meet the growing demand for BI solutions throughout the continent. "We have been providing them [our customers] with IT business solutions for some time now and the time has come for us to add value to these solutions," he says. To date, the company has offices in four countries - South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria - from where it co-ordinates its 14 channel partners throughout the various regions.
Inthiaz Cassimjee, country manager, Africa and Middle East at Seagate Software, says that the appointment is in line with his company`s` recently implemented channel strategy for its Middle East and Africa (MEA) base. "In line with this, we are now able to open up the African market for our products, secure in the knowledge that our business and channel partners can implement and support our technologies, thereby allowing their customers to access, analyse, report and share their business intelligence," he concludes.

