PQ Africa`s Business Intelligence division will host the first Verity seminar series in SA following its appointment as a Verity International Partner earlier this year. The seminar, a series of business briefs aimed at corporate professionals and decision-makers, will be held in Cape Town on Monday the 10th and Tuesday the 11th of September, and in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 12 September.
With over a decade`s experience in powering business-critical applications, Verity is the acknowledged leader in scalable information retrieval, and was one of the first companies to deliver full-text search solutions for intranet, e-commerce and business portals.
"Verity`s solutions incorporate the technology, partners and services for building a complete business portal, automating access, personalisation, searching and navigating features for the enterprise," says PQBI managing executive Gavin Lipshitz.
"They deliver comprehensive and unified access to enterprise and Internet data, from Web browsers or handheld devices, regardless of location, format or structure. What makes them unique is the ability to personalise the information experience for each user in an organisation, automatically generating the views, windows and information tickers based on a user`s preferences or location."
The PQBI seminars will address the following key requirements for business portals in the South African e-business context:
* Personalisation - allows users to access the information, applications and categories that are most relevant to them.
* Unified access - makes contact from all information sources searchable.
* Intelligent classification - accurately organises information around your business needs.
* Scalability - as the number of users, amount of information, or network complexity increases, the Verity K2 Architecture scales linearly with zero performance degradation.
* Intelligent merchandising - e-commerce portals can influence purchasing decisions through sophisticated online merchandising techniques that increase sales and recognises more revenue.
* Profitable site stickiness - keep customers on your site longer with a core full-text search engine in place of a simple structured database system.
Entrance is free but seats are limited to 20 per session, so advance booking is essential. For more information and to RSVP, call Mandy dos Santos on (021) 550-3000 or e-mail mandyds@pqafrica.co.za. You can also visit PQBI online at www.pqbi.co.za to make an online booking.
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PQ Business Intelligence - a division of PQ Africa - is the centre for customer-oriented applications (COA) in the PQ Africa group, with offices throughout the country.
In addition to its long-standing partnership with the world`s leading business intelligence and information delivery vendors, Cognos and Actuate, PQBI has also been appointed a Remedy master reseller and Verity International Partner, incorporating the group`s IT service management and CRM solutions and providing an end-to-end COA platform from the back-office to the customer-facing agent.
With over 85 specialist consultants, PQBI has the largest focused COA team in the country. It is also the largest Ascential Datastage software partner in SA, and the exclusive system integrator for Whitelight Systems, offering its clients the most comprehensive set of data warehousing and analytic application skills and products available for all their enterprise information requirements.
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PQ Africa was formed as a result of the merger of Persetel Holdings and Q Data. Comparex Holdings Limited has a 50% minus one share interest in PQ Africa. The black empowerment group NITAC (the National IT Acquisition Consortium), led by Real Africa Holdings Limited, holds a controlling interest of 50% plus one share in PQ Africa.
PQ Africa is SA`s leading provider of competitive, innovative and flexible business solutions based on information and communications technology. These comprehensive business solutions include systems integration, consulting, package implementation, software development, outsourcing, hardware, software, peripherals, voice, video and data communication systems, customer relationship management solutions and networking equipment and services. Internet solutions include the development and deployment of electronic commerce and electronic data interchange-based solutions and digital authentication.
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