Spescom group company, Leseding Electronics Investments (Pty) Ltd, has, in conjunction with Spescom Software Limited (UK), announced a deal that will see the eB document management software suite distributed in SA by black economic empowerment (BEE) company TSS (Tactical Software Systems).
Leseding is the operation responsible for black empowerment in the Spescom Group. This announcement is the latest development in Spescom's black empowerment programme.
The eB suite of products is an acknowledged award-winning, world-leading product in the document and knowledge management arena.
TSS has agreed to assume the distribution of the eB product range with immediate effect and will provide all of the necessary services and expertise to support the suite of solutions.
The eB software remains the wholly owned intellectual property of the Spescom Group. TSS will now provide the specialised personnel resources to market, deploy and maintain current customer accounts.
"The product which was previously distributed via our South African subsidiary, Spescom Software SA, will now essentially be distributed and supported by TSS thereby providing continuity to the existing customer base," says Vernon Leas, Spescom's chief executive officer, SA Operations.
"We have a long-standing relationship with TSS which has formed part of Spescom's commitment to BEE initiatives. We are excited by this development as TSS offers the depth of skills and experience to provide eB solutions to customers effectively and with added value.
"The eB product suite will now be sourced directly from our UK subsidiary, Spescom Software Ltd, and distributed locally by TSS. This holds significant benefits for both the Spescom Group and eB customers as well as providing a meaningful opening for the development of skills in the BEE area," notes Leas.
Danny Mackay, chief executive officer of TSS, explains the progress that his company has made since its inception in 1997. "We started with just four staff, originally focusing on Y2K remediation projects," he says, "and in this regard Spescom closely supported us in winning our first contract. This was the start of a long and close relationship that has now realised this opportunity.
"Since those early days, TSS has grown to about 100 staff, our revenues have tripled and in the process TSS has formed strong international partnerships alongside our activities in local markets. We offer a number of solutions including ERP, desktop and network infrastructure support (availability management), healthcare and e-commerce solutions," says Mackay.
He notes that the eB product suite is a welcome complement to these services and products and significantly enhances TSS' knowledge management service offering.
Mackay adds: "Our commitment to transformation and empowerment through technology is part of our culture. In the last five years we have won and retained some of the best IT resources in the country. These resources form part of our skills transfer programme and act as mentors to individuals from a historically disadvantaged background. In this way we hope to play a significant role in the redress of historic imbalances.
"Our close relationship with Spescom promotes locally developed technology. This supports healthy growth in the South African software development industry and offers an important value proposition for our broad base of customers," concludes Mackay.
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Spescom Limited is an information and communications technology company listed on the JSE Securities Exchange SA, with operations in US, UK and SA.
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 DataVoice, a subsidiary of Spescom Limited, is dedicated to the development and global marketing of its DataVoice products in the area of capture, management and recreation of live data.
Spescom holds the controlling interest in US-based Spescom Software Inc, a Nasdaq-, OTCBB-listed company, and developer of the award-winning eB software suite. Spescom Software Ltd (UK) is a subsidiary of Spescom Software Inc.
In SA, Spescom is a leading supplier of communications solutions and products to network operators and service providers as well as providing a range of customer contact solutions to its blue chip customer base.
Spescom's alliances include world-leading companies such as Avaya, Sony, Fluke, ADC, LightPointe and Harris.
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