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MICROmega unit gets municipal deal

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 19 Jun 2015
New National Treasury requirements around reporting kick in next month.
New National Treasury requirements around reporting kick in next month.

Sebata Municipal Solutions, a MICROmega unit, has been awarded a contract to supply the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality with its enterprise management solution (SebataEMS).

The contract will run for an initial period of three years. JSE-listed MICROmega did not disclose the value of the deal.

MICROmega notes in a statement that Sebata has "had a strong relationship with local government as a customer service provider and active participant in the community for more than 40 years". Sebata is serving almost 130 municipalities and it added 16 local authorities to its base after MICROmega's October 2014 purchase of Rdata for R12.57 million.

"The importance of the rollout of an enterprise management solution for the metro is far reaching," says Trevor Harper, CFO at the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Municipality. He explains "inconsistencies in data and various disparate data sets has proved a hindrance in sound financial and strategic decision making".

Deploying the solution will aid the municipality in planning, transacting and reporting in a unified manner, says Harper. "This will ultimately contribute to the municipality being able to meet its service delivery mandate better."

MICROmega adds the SebataEMS system was redeveloped over the past two years to be compliant with National Treasury's requirement for a Standard Chart of Accounts (mSCOA) that will apply to the business processes and reporting of all local authorities in South Africa from next month.

The listed company adds, "securing this contract is significant for Sebata and the MICROmega group as it takes the SebataEMS solution into the larger scale market that was previously dominated by SAP".

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