ATIO meets call centre deadline

ATIO Corporation has delivered on its R10 million call centre promise to the Mercantile Group. The centre, which has been in operation since 9 January, is geared to handle share-dealing services for 2.2 million Sanlam shareholders, following Sanlam`s demutualisation and listing on the JSE.

Brait secures network with Gauntlet

JSE-listed financial services group Brait has secured its national virtual private network with Gauntlet firewall from Network Associates. EC-Hold company SMC Electronic Commerce, the local Gauntlet premier partner, was contracted to deliver a security framework for the group.

SAPO extends security to online, internet systems

Unisys helps ready Georgia Prison for Y2K

In a contract worth $5.2m, the Georgia Department of Corrections has selected Unisys to help ensure its computer systems are year 2000 compliant.

Philips speeds call centre response with Corollary system

Philips SA`s Business Communication division is experiencing improved call response times after installing a Corollary Pentium SMP system from Computer Configurations to run its customer service centre.

DNS networks MOZAL plant

DNS Networking, the Dimension Data Group subsidiary, has networked the construction office computer network at the MOZAL plant in Mozambique and is also responsible for the maintenance and support of the network, in partnership with the DiData Africa organisation in Mozambique.

Norwest chooses Mobius EDW

Norwest Financial Information Services Group has chosen Mobius`s Electronic Document Warehouse (EDW) software suite as the foundation for its enterprise-wide customer information management initiative, which will give users at 1 300 branches instant online access to information. [Local rep: Bateleur Software Solutions]

Thomson speeds up with EMC

Thomson Consumer Electronics, number one in the US in sales of televisions and VCRs, has implemented EMC`s Celerra File Server to eliminate down time and improve manageability of its network file services.

Software Futures helps AST take object route

Advanced Software Technologies (AST) Vaal Triangle has implemented Cayenne ObjectTeam, supplied by Software Futures, as the modelling tool for its object technology (OT) rollout.

DNS provides R4m upgrade for Umgeni Water

Umgeni Water, the KwaZulu-Natal water authority, has upgraded its aging computer infrastructure and network. The R4 million upgrade was designed in conjunction with DNS Networking (KZN).

World`s largest computer retailer deploys 3Com solution

3Com has announced that CompUSA, the world`s largest computer retailer, has deployed a next-generation 3Com Gigabit Ethernet solution at the company`s new, state-of-the-art configuration centre.

EMC helps Polk drive down costs, increase revenues

EMC says the Polk Company, a provider of marketing information services and database management, has acquired 7TB of EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage and several EMC software solutions to speed the creation of new services and improve availability of its mission-critical data warehouses.