Spescom DataFusion (Pty) Limited has entered into a business alliance with NetCom Solutions South Africa to enhance its business offering with a global, around-the-clock networking security service.
A wholly owned subsidiary of Spescom Limited, Spescom DataFusion provides specialised Cisco-based, multi-service network infrastructures, Voice-over-IP (Internet Protocol) solutions and IP telephony, as well as IP Contact Centre Solutions that provide the platform for Internet Business Solutions for the South African and African enterprise markets. The company is also Cisco`s leading Tier-One, Advanced Technology Partner in Africa.
Tim Pryce, manager: Intelligent Networks at Spescom Limited, says the partnership will add significant value to Spescom DataFusion`s business solutions.
"NetCom Solutions is widely regarded as one of the world`s leading network security monitoring sites, a fact underscored by its recent international alliances facilitated by its relationship with Cisco.
"This provides added assurance to Spescom DataFusion`s customers and enhances the company`s ability to provide total solutions." He notes that Internet Business Solutions are best supplied when companies with focussed skills and expertise, in-depth experience and best-of-breed components of the solutions combine to deliver an integrated solution.
By working together in a business alliance, Spescom DataFusion and its alliance partners such as NetCom are not only more successful in winning the confidence of customers, but the solutions delivered contain best-of-breed skills and components that combine to provide superior solutions at a lower risk to joint customers.
"The business alliance creates opportunities for NetCom to access Spescom DataFusion`s niche markets and vice versa ," adds Pryce.
NetCom Solutions director, Chris Davis, confirms that the alliance provides added value to Spescom DataFusion`s clients in the form of reduced operational complexity, through the supply of cost-effective and efficiently managed security control.
"Organisations around the globe - especially those that provide a 24-hour service to their customers and cannot afford downtime from any source - are becoming increasingly reliant on Internet and other real-time communication network security management," he says.
Although large enterprises in the financial, insurance, government and parastatal sectors can often afford to use dedicated lines for the interchange of sensitive data, Davis notes the Internet remains the chief means of connectivity for the majority of businesses.
"The current growth in e-commerce also necessitates the highest possible levels of security, since the open, mission-critical eBusiness environment renders network infrastructures increasingly vulnerable."
He adds: "The alliance represents a successful integration of service and technology to provide clients with a total solution."
NetCom Solutions services include monitoring and resolution of critical security risks to IT networks using innovative business solutions, including network intrusion detection, anti-virus and content security, password management, secure e-mail facilities and voice and data access control.
According to Davis, NetCom `s development efforts in the field of data security and the implementation of such have resulted in a significant competitive advantage for the company; such as an on-line intrusion detection monitoring system that uses a human interface to make final decisions.
NetCom and Spescom DataFusion are already engaged in a number of joint venture projects. These include the implementation of multi-service communications infrastructures and networking security for Mopani Copper Mine plc and Anglo American`s Konkola Copper Mine project in Zambia. Locally, South Africa`s National Private Colleges is also utilising the alliance`s combined expertise in a networking installation.
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Spescom Limited
Spescom Limited is a communications and information technology company with operations in USA, UK and South Africa.
The group is active in two main areas of the world IT market, namely offering product and solutions to connect to the networked economy, and the provision of software solutions to manage information and knowledge.
The strategic focus is on the convergence of knowledge, document, configuration and voice transaction management technologies.
Spescom holds the controlling interest in USA based, Altris Software Inc., a NASDAQ, OTCBB listed company, and the developers of the award winning eB software.
In South Africa, Spescom, in alliance with world leading companies such as Cisco and Avaya, formerly known as Lucent Technologies, provides a range of customer contact and intelligent network solutions to its blue-chip customer base.
The company is a leading supplier of communications solutions and products to network operators and service providers on the African continent.
Spescom, through a joint venture with Siemens, is a world leading supplier of revenue management solutions with installations in 42 countries, focusing on the prepayment of electricity services.