Software Futures, a company in the Computer Configurations Holdings group, has secured the exclusive Dazel distributorship for South Africa. Dazel, headquartered in Austin, Texas, is a systems management company whose premier product is Dazel Output Server, a utility for enterprise output management in the Unix-NT market.
As such, Dazel neatly complements the New Dimension range of output management products, which provide associated services in the mainframe environment.
"This is a truly exciting relationship to have renewed," says Allen Lewis, MD of Software Futures Systems Management. "Dazel is one of the fastest growing software companies in the world. In its Software 500, Software Magazine ranked them at No 290 in the world in 1997, up from No 339 in 1996.
"This growth comes from the company`s single-focus vision", says Lewis. "The founders of Dazel were also the founders of Tivoli. When Tivoli was sold to IBM, they created Dazel."
Dazel`s payoff line, "When it absolutely, positively has to get there", reflects the company`s focus on secure, guaranteed delivery of output, says Lewis.
"Unix and Windows NT lack comprehensive spooling facilities," Lewis says, "as do most ERP applications. This means large corporations which have significant Unix, NT or ERP installations have no guarantee of delivery of documents or files. Dazel ensures these documents and files will get to their destination, irrespective of circumstances."
Dazel Output Server provides centralised control and access to corporate output destinations such as print and fax devices, pagers, file transfer, e-mail destinations, the Web and delivery to online viewing applications at the PC level.
"Software Futures had enjoyed a third-party relationship with Dazel through an OEM agreement with New Dimension, but this agreement has expired, opening the way for direct representation of Dazel" says Lewis.
Dazel, in use at such companies as Nortel, Kodak and Lucent, is targeted at very large, distributed organisations with thousands of output devices, where there can be no doubt as to whether a document was delivered or not.
Lewis reports the signing of the first proof-of-concept in South Africa, "with a multi-thousand-seat licence expected soon".
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