South African mobile business solutions company, RangeGate, has been presented with an award for achieving the highest sales of Symbol products in the 2001 financial year. This was the top honour given to Symbol Technologies` South African channel partners at an international event held in Las Vegas.
RangeGate sells all Symbols` products locally, with a primary focus on mobile computing. It also sells a significant number of handheld computers which connect via radio frequency (RF) with customers` ERP systems. The company reached sales totalling $2 million, or approximately R18.5 million.
"We have become focused on the Symbol product offering and thus formed a very close relationship with Symbol Technologies," says Mark Lilje, chief operating officer at RangeGate. "We believe this award is just the beginning of even greater achievements."
He says the partnership`s value-add lies in the fact that RangeGate is a recognised systems integrator of Symbol equipment and has been for the past 18 months. And because RangeGate is a significant player in the mobile market it can entrench Symbol`s products in the local market, increase sales of equipment and create greater market share.
"This relationship will facilitate the implementation of the RangeGate product offering. For example, the Mobile-Edge product set will greatly improve efficiencies for our customers," says Lilje. "In addition, we will achieve all this by integrating our software and professional services with industry-leading mobile technologies such as Symbol."
RangeGate sees mobile growth going towards connectivity via GSM and GPRS, and for this reason, it plans to greatly increase its Symbol product sales this year and form an even closer, more profitable relationship.
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For over 12 years RangeGate has focused on leveraging mobile technologies to give its customers a competitive-edge - a Mobile Edge. The company helps its customers take advantage of the anywhere, anytime, real-time capability of wireless technologies in order to optimise business processes and accelerate ROI on traditional systems. RangeGate`s MOBILE-EDGE solutions encompass the mobilisation of corporate sales and field services, the wireless optimisation of warehouse control, logistics control, cargo and freight handling and in-store fulfilment.
Over 60% of RangeGate`s 100+ strong team focus on software development and system integration. RangeGate is an accredited mobile partner of many of the major IT vendors. Strategic partners include Symbol Technologies, SAP, Microsoft, Lotus/IBM and Oracle.
RangeGate`s blue chip clients include Daimler-Chrysler, Johnson & Johnson, World Bank, Orange, Littlewoods, Sainsburys and ASDA. RangeGate was recently acquired from South African-listed Datatec Ltd, and is now wholly owned by Canadian-listed Versatile Mobile Systems (Canada) Inc (CDNX: VMS), a leading mobile commerce solutions provider.
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