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Miraculum launches NetSuite in SA

Miraculum and NetSuite to provide NetSuite`s business application software to small and medium businesses
By Miraculum
Johannesburg, 01 Oct 2004

NetSuite, Inc and Miraculum today announced that upon becoming a NetSuite Solution Provider, Miraculum is on board with NetSuite to provide and support NetSuite`s award-winning product offerings including NetSuite, NetSuite Small Business, NetCRM, NetERP and NetCommerce to small to medium businesses.

Miraculum has been the premier application service provider (ASP) in the corporate SA market since 1999. Its vision statement positions the company as the pre-eminent, broad-based supplier of ASP services in SA.

In 1999 and 2000 Miraculum developed the technical competence and skills to equip itself for the emerging ASP market. From 2001 Miraculum has grown steadily in size and customer base and now boasts a national footprint of blue chip clients in this space. The increasing ubiquity and pervasiveness of the Internet in SA now means that the service is realistically in the reach of SMMEs here.

Most businesses lack the resources, knowledge or manpower to implement new business management software systems. NetSuite`s solution providers offer a unique approach to helping small to mid-sized businesses overcome these challenges by providing pre-sale, purchase and post-sale services. Some of these services include: needs analysis, system evaluations, purchase options, implementation, data conversion and migration, customisation, process engineering, training, integration and business consulting. Because NetSuite`s solution providers are required to attend both sales and product technical training, they have the knowledge to offer significant value to customers who need local or on-site services.

"Having strong partners who understand the business needs of their clients and present NetSuite as the solution is essential to the growth of our company," said Susan Gallagher, Director of Channel Sales for NetSuite. "We are excited to have Miraculum join our solution provider programme. The success of this programme is key to the continued rapid growth of sales at NetSuite."

"As an SME ourselves, Miraculum are genuinely excited to be able offer a true ASP-based business service to the southern African market," said Channing McDonald, COO for Miraculum. "We firmly believe that economic growth in SA and the region has to, and will come, from this sector and this must be supported with applications that rival the traditional big brother ERPs. As NetSuite`s range of services have been architected from the ground up, in the Internet era, they are ideally suited to growing organisations that have big ideas and yet contain their own unique business nuances."

NetSuite enables companies to manage all key business operations in a single, integrated system, which includes customer relationship management; order management and fulfilment; inventory management; finance; e-commerce and Web site management and employee productivity. NetSuite is delivered as an on-demand service, so there is no hardware to procure, no large, up-front licence fee, and no complex set-ups. Finally, NetSuite`s patent-pending "real-time dashboard" technology provides an easy-to-use view into role-specific business information that is always up-to-date. For more information about NetSuite, visit http://www.netsuite.com/

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Miraculum started its life as a joint venture between four of SA`s corporate heavyweights, namely Old Mutual, Nedcor Limited, Dimension Data plc and the J&J Group. The purpose of the JV was to develop a South African capability in the application service provider space, focusing initially on procurement.

The JV took three years to reach its initial objectives, including operational self-sufficiency. This was reached in September 2003. At that stage the ownership was consolidated with 50.1% of the company being incorporated directly into the wider J&J Group, and the remainder placed with the management and staff.

Today, Miraculum is proud to be an integral part of the J&J Group, fully committed to the business, social and transformational objectives that is to be expected of every company sharing in the South African economy.

Miraculum`s successes in the corporate ASP market has now been expanded to the SMME space with the launch of the NetSuite range of products, which offer the SMME a full range of integrated ERP, and CRM and e-commerce modules.

For further information about NetSuite, please contact Channing McDonald at Miraculum on 011 880 0101, or Mei Li of NetSuite Inc at meili@netsuite.com, or visit the Miraculum Web site at www.miraculum.com.