In a move to streamline its software offering, the software division of SDD has ended its relationship with Corel, a vendor whose products include Corel Draw and Corel Linux.
According to Gary Pickford, general manager for software and consumables at SDD, this move has been taken in order to improve the profitability of the software division while also offering a more focused product set.
"We are focusing the software division on its key performance areas by forming partnerships with the vendors that best fit our own strategy," states Pickford. By doing this, he says, SDD will also be in a position to ensure that the skills of its sales staff are raised to a higher level to give better service to its resellers.
SDD continues to represent a broad range of products through its software division.
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SDD, the focused IT company in the Siltek Technology Chain Group, is South Africa's largest broad-based distributor of information technology. SDD encourages black empowerment opportunities and is the partner of choice of several leading vendors. It distributes a wide range of 'best of breed' hardware and software products, as well as peripherals, components and consumables. SDD configures branded hardware and builds-to-order Xylo, Vision and Fujitech, its own range of PCs. SDD has branches in Gauteng, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, Bloemfontein, Nelspruit and Namibia. Outside South Africa, the company has partnerships in Botswana and Zimbabwe.
Siltek Limited
Siltek Limited is the leader in the Southern African Technology Supply Chain with a turnover of R3-billion in the year to end-June 2000. Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Siltek comprises complementary operating divisions namely, Volume Distribution, Specialist Distribution and Supply Chain Services.
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