European and southern African software leader COSA has appointed Debbie Hill as MD of its South African operation. This follows the recent merger between local software house, Tilos Business Solutions, and German business process management (BPM) developer, COSA.
In a parallel appointment, Sybille McCloghrie has been appointed group business development director.
Hill has been charged with bringing the local company in line with COSA Europe`s BPM and enterprise content management (ECM) capabilities. She is also responsible for expanding the South African company`s smart enterprise suite skills and technology into the broader group company.
"In the next six to 12 months we will consolidate our product offering and package it effectively to get the message out to the South African market that we are now not only leaders in the smart enterprise suite space but in the business process management product arena as well," Hill says.
"COSA South Africa is continuing to focus on and strengthen its relationship with Microsoft, but the new organisation`s platform-agnostic capability means that other strategic partnerships can be pursued. In this regard, COSA SA has already become an Oracle ISV partner, which will give us the necessary leverage to brand, market and sell our Oracle/Java products into the South African market. The recent launch of our business activity monitoring product operating on Oracle is one such example."
Hill completed her Bachelor of Commerce (B Comm) degree at the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg in 1985, majoring in Economics, Commercial Law and Business Data Processing. She started out her career as a programmer at a large banking institution, and soon realised that the world of IT consulting was an area where she felt most at home. She joined Coopers & Lybrand and worked in SA, the UK and Europe for a number of years, implementing ERP solutions in various countries, as well as performing strategy and IT consulting. Once she returned to SA, Hill moved on to start her own business, which was merged into Iocore, where she became director of the ERP Business Solutions division for a number of years. Hill then joined Tilos Business Solutions as the service and delivery executive for local and international operations in 2003. With 19 years` experience in the solutions, services and implementation arenas of the IT industry, Hill is a shareholder of the COSA group and plays a strategic role in the group management executive team.
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European and South African based software company COSA is a pioneer in the area of intelligent workflow systems, occupying the smart enterprise suite (SES) niche, and the business process management (BPM) space. COSA has become one of Europe`s leading companies in these markets, and is the only European vendor with BPM and SES offerings on the two major mainstream technological platforms of Java/J2EE and .NET.
Products include a fully integrated portal, content management, collaboration, analytics, document and records management for the creation and implementation of enterprise solutions. The SES approach to solution development allows for the rapid creation of well architected, flexible and services-oriented applications for a wide variety of vertical markets, such as financial services, insurance, HR, mining and local government.
COSA`s software enhances the entire business process management cycle including analysis, model design, simulation and run-time operation. Apart from controlling, automating and optimising business processes, companies use COSA to significantly increase their competitiveness and return on investment, ensure legal compliance and to allow for agile, dynamic and real-time enterprise management.
COSA`s software has been rated by Gartner as being among the leading BPM products in the world, earning it a spot in the Challenger`s quadrant in the 2004 BPM Maqic Quadrant. The company has been in business for a decade and has its offices in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and SA, with more than 65 major clients throughout Europe and Africa.
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