USKO Explores Multi-Industry E-Commerce Opportunities

The e-commerce division of listed IT group USKO has announced its plans to expand into a variety of industries with a range of specialised electronic connectivity solutions. These offerings will be based on USKO`s existing pay-for-use e-commerce infrastructure and targeted at the travel, health, financial and insurance industries. Analysts have expressed concerns about the performance of USKO`s Mediswitch e-commerce division, but the group says the division is poised for strong growth.

Nortel Networks `ushers in new e-business era`

Nortel Networks says it has integrated its Web, call centres and indirect and direct channels to drive a new e-business paradigm at www.nortelnetworks.com.

M-Web offers e-commerce services

M-Web says it has closed a deal with Interface Media, developer of a CD and Internet directory called EasyInfo, which will enable the companies to provide e-commerce services to their clients. The product will be branded M-Web`s EasyInfo and will be part of all relevant portals.

JBA appoints global e-commerce Director

Vortex launches cheap e-commerce solution

Vortex Communications has launched the INEX Commerce Court application in SA, a product aimed at bringing e-commerce to small businesses. Recently listed Synergy Holdings, the Vortex parent company, hopes to have 400 small to medium-sized businesses doing e-commerce within a year. Synergy holds exclusive distribution rights for the Southern Africa region.

Billcad chooses StorageTek for tape storage

JSE-listed Billcad has chosen StorageTek`s 9740 DLT tape storage system, supplied by CMS, for its mission-critical storage requirements, and has installed Veritas software, also from CMS, to manage the backup process automatically.

American School speeds up with Xerox N32

The American School has standarised on six Xerox N32 monochrome laser printers to carry the load of its every day administrative paperwork.

debis completes programme management project for LIW

debis IT Services Southern Africa has completed a complex project for LIW, a division of Denel. Worth over R500 000, ArtSEL called for a document management and workflow solution to support programme management of company and technical interfaces in artillery systems engineering.

E-commerce will not enter with a bang

Mosaic Software targets overseas market

Cape-based Mosaic Software, an electronic funds transfer software developer, predicts that more than 70% of its revenue this year will be generated offshore. The company has spent the last two years expanding its operations in Europe and the US.

Synergy distributes Canadian e-commerce solution

JSE-listed Synergy Holdings, through its subsidiary Vortex Communications, has been granted sole Southern Africa distribution rights of INEX CommerceCourt, an e-commerce solution from Canadian-based INEX.

e-Secure tackles information security

Newly established e-Secure, a member of the Fintech group, will concentrate on information security and MD Angus Macintosh says e-Secure is arguably the only company in SA offering an exclusively service-oriented enterprise security and knowledge management facility.

Microsoft`s e-commerce strategy gets thumbs up

Microsoft South Africa says that since the launch of its commerce offering in March, more than 20 independent software vendors and e-commerce solution providers have adopted the Microsoft commerce platform, proving that e-commerce is a profitable reality in SA.