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Holos to drive financial system at NASA

Seagate Software said KPMG Peat Marwick LLP has selected Seagate Holos as part of its $181 million contract to develop the agency-wide Integrated Financial Management System for NASA.

Ironbridge brings Medihelp into the new millennium

Ironbridge Consulting, a division of Abraxas Holdings, has landed Medihelp`s Year 2000 conversion project. The project, to be completed by November, involves code conversion and a radical rewrite of systems to bring them in line with new medical legislation.

Seagate Holos helps funding at Aberdeen University

The University of Aberdeen, Scotland, is using Seagate Software`s Holos business intelligence software for financial reporting, management of grants and contracts, and analysis of student information.

Real Estate company uses Mobius Software

Chicago Title and Trust Company has installed Electronic Document Warehouse (EDW) software from Mobius Management Systems to provide its headquarters and field personnel with instant access to over one-half million pages of reports and documents.[Local representative: Bateleur Software]

FMCG agent Smollan cashes in with BPCS

Smollan Holdings, the largest fast moving consumer goods agency in South Africa, has taken a step into the future of supply chain management by installing Systems Software Associates BPCS V6.0 enterprise resource planning application suite.

Consumer Credit outsources to DNS

Consumer Credit Corporation has appointed DNS (KwaZulu-Natal) to upgrade the local area network systems at its 11 branches nation-wide and link them via leased lines to its Durban-based head office. The entire infrastructure will be monitored through DNS Remote Management Centre (RMC) in Johannesburg.

Lotus Notes tracks global relief projects

To streamline fund and information management in its 103 global operations, humanitarian relief and development organisation World Vision International is migrating its business process to Lotus Domino/Notes and using the Internet for the transfer of critical data.

Midrand Campus standardises on Microsoft

Midrand Campus, one of South Africa`s largest tertiary educational institutions, has standardised on Microsoft software across its five campuses. The institute accommodates 450 workstations running Windows 95 and the Office 97 suite of programs. The server platform is Microsoft NT Server 4.0.

Notes operates in healthcare arena

The South African arm of international healthcare group, Smith & Nephew, has chosen Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino software to keep up to speed with the latest regulatory information, improve response times and move onto the Web.

Storage stability gets critical for Edgars

After having standardised its mainframe storage facilities on the EMC platform last year, local retail conglomerate, Edgars Stores Limited, has decided to move its open systems applications to EMC as well.

EMC Southern Africa

Amfac chooses Unisys NT Server for INSIGHT

Unisys said Amfac Parks & Resorts, a long-time Unix user of the Lawson INSIGHT suite of business applications, has committed to migrating to Windows NT on the Unisys enterprise-class Aquanta XR/6 server. Amfac is the first Lawson customer to move to the new Unisys 10-way Aquanta XR/6 Windows NT server.

Pretoria University puts education on fast track

The Gold Fields computer centre at Pretoria University`s faculty of science has upgraded to a Fast Ethernet network infrastructure using Digital and SMC Networks technology to better serve its 1 200 plus annual student base.