Karabina partners with global ISV Annata to transform operations, processes in automotive, heavy equipment, industrial machinery sectors


Johannesburg, 29 May 2018

Karabina, a leading Microsoft Gold Partner, and Annata, a leader in intelligent asset life cycle management software, have announced a partnership in order to bring together Karabina's expertise in Dynamics 365 solutions and Annata's platform and industry capabilities to the South African market in order to help enterprises transform their workplace.

Karabina's 17 years of experience in technology consulting services, coupled with using the latest Microsoft Cloud Azure, Dynamics 365 and Office365 services, enables Karabina to help customers shift from legacy environments and abrasive processes, to modern digital connected and frictionless business applications. The businesses are then able to gain insight from their internal and external data, improve customer and employee experiences and optimise operational elements of the business.

Annata 365 is deeply embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem and uses the standard features of the Microsoft Business Applications suite, as well as additional features specifically designed to support the automotive and equipment industries.

Annata 365 manages the high value device life cycle and value chain, from factory gate to end of useful life by leveraging the power of Dynamics 365 Enterprise, Power BI, and Azure technology. The flexible, cloud-based architectural design is proven to help meet customers' rapid growth demands, enhancing their capabilities to meet market changes and competitions.

By combining Karabina's experience in delivering the core Dynamics 365 native capabilities for manufacturing and distribution companies, with Annata's deep industry knowledge and robust dealer management solution, together they are able to reach more of the market and deliver the solutions that can help customers with rapid growth demands.

Dave Ives, Director at Karabina, says: "Customers in the automotive, heavy equipment and industrial machinery sector need to intelligently manage the life cycle of high value assets, such as heavy machinery and vehicles. They also need to manage assets from creation, to delivery, rental, service and warranty. To be able to have one solution, utilising Dynamics 365 and Annata 365, that manages the entire life cycle of a product, is a game changer for many companies."

Johann Jonsson, CEO, Annata, added: "We are strengthening our market by combining Annata's industry knowledge and solution capabilities with Karabina's expertise in delivering Dynamics 365 and methodology excellence. I'm thrilled to be taking a solid step towards an even more robust global implementation strategy for manufacturing automotive and equipment companies."

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Karabina

Karabina's focus is on bringing its people, the Microsoft Cloud Platform and partner products together into experiences and solutions that deliver new value for its customers through six key competency areas:

* Data management and analytics;
* Customer engagement;
* Digital workplace;
* Corporate performance management;
* Dynamic operations; and
* Cloud OS.

Founded in 2001, with a current staff complement of over 190 consultants, all focused on Microsoft technology and customer success, and over 72 international and local awards, Karabina is the leading Microsoft Gold Partner with the ability to lead your move to the Microsoft Cloud, with solutions that align technology to business strategy.

www.karabina.co.za

Annata

Annata is a global ISV, consulting and technology services company. Based on its deep and long-standing expertise in the automotive, heavy equipment, and industrial machinery sectors, it provides a fully integrated business management solution using Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power BI, and Microsoft Azure. As one of a handful of top global Microsoft partners, it delivers a solution that is deeply embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem, providing functionality that helps manufacturers, distributors, dealers, rental companies, and fleet operators to deal with the industry pains and to transform their existing operations and processes to adapt to and embrace new technologies like IOT, machine learning, and the cloud.

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