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Unisys wins first publishing contract in the Netherlands

Unisys has signed an agreement with Wegener Arcade NV, a Dutch information, communications and entertainment group, to install Unisys Publishing Solutions at the five different sites that produce the group`s 19 daily newspapers.

Joy rolls out global R/3 implementation

Joy Mining Machinery South Africa, local subsidiary of global machinery and systems suppliers to the underground coal mining industry, went live on SAP R/3 enterprise business solution earlier this year.

Michaelhouse bridges the gap with Ghost

Michaelhouse School in the rural Natal-midlands has selected Symantec`s Ghost, distributed locally by Server Tools, as the best solution for its system maintenance needs.

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Corollary

Oct 20, 1998

Investec uses Net to change currency dealing

Investec has changed the face of currency dealing with the launch of its MarketMaker Internet trading system, reducing transaction time from hours to seconds. The new system runs on 12 Corollary servers supplied by Computer Configurations.

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Oct 19, 1998

Imperial Motor Group in R7m IT upgrade

The Imperial Motor Group, the biggest Toyota dealer group in South Africa with 22 branches nationwide, is upgrading its dealer management system. The company has selected a Corollary Promaster supplied by Computer Configurations as its new hardware platform.

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Ingres

Oct 19, 1998

The buck starts with IT at SA Mint

IT is perhaps the single most critical element of the SA Mint, says Marc van Gool, who will spearhead the Mint`s future IT growth. At the heart of the Mint`s technology lies Computer Associates` Ingres.

Computer Associates Africa

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SAP

Oct 16, 1998

SAPPI hones its maintenance operation best practices

SAPPI`s Plant Maintenance and Total Productive Manufacturing team, working with SAP systems integrators and logistics specialists, Spearhead, have successfully implemented a SAP enterprise resource planning system.

Warstreet Marketing

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Oct 16, 1998

ICL delivers scanners to voter registration programme

ICL South Africa has delivered the first phase of the contract for the supply of 25 000 handheld scanners to the Independent Electoral Commission`s (IEC) Pretoria head office. ICL SA won the four-way tender -- valued at R90 million -- in June.

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System 21

Oct 15, 1998

Bensons Crisps invests in new JBA systems

Bensons Crisps, the UK-based snack manufacturer, is upgrading its IT systems with JBA System 21 manufacturing, purchasing, telesales and EDI software, together with a RISC based AS/400 in a lb250 000 investment.

Global Research Partners

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Oct 13, 1998

MTN boosts message delivery with Orca

MTN says its 1.1 million subscribers are receiving their short messages three times faster following the installation of a locally designed and assembled data storage solution from Telecom Configurations, a company in the Computer Configurations Holdings group.

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Baan

Oct 13, 1998

Venture goes live with Baan

Venture Computer has gone live with phase one of its Baan C3 implementation -- a project that started in March and has been completed in record time.

Lexmark International SA

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SAP R/3

Oct 12, 1998

Mines Pension Fund to go SAP within eight months

The Mines Pension Fund (MPF) plans to migrate its real estate and general ledger systems to SAP R/3 within only eight months. The real estate module of the SAP solution will be the first such implementation in South Africa, said MPF.

SAP Africa