Highbury Launches IBM FileNet Business in South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa, July 09, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Highbury Solutions (Pty) Ltd have expanded their Information Management Solutions portfolio to include IBM FileNet Enterprise Content and Business Process Management capabilities. Announcing the new initiative, Highbury’s Sales Director, Gordon Barnes, said “We are delighted to have been able to recruit some of the most talented and experienced people in the country. The FileNet solution suite has been a target area for us since IBM’s acquisition in 2008 and now we can confidently claim to be IBM’s leading ECM & BPM partner in South Africa. Highbury is already recognised as the ‘first choice’ provider of IBM Content Management Suite solutions to major clients in the Telco and Financial Services markets, and the addition of the FileNet team, together with IBM’s product integration strategy, gives us unrivalled capabilities in the fast-growing ECM & BPM sectors”.

Highbury focuses on delivering ‘best-of-breed’ Information Management and Information OnDemand solutions with technologies from IBM (ECM, BPM, Data Warehousing, Cognos Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, Data Integration & Quality Management), Kofax (Document Capture), SPSS (Predictive Analytics) and Mimecast (Unified Email Management). Barnes added, “Whilst everyone recognises we are in a global economic downturn, the issue of managing exponential growth of information volumes for South African companies shows no sign of receding. Our clients are benefitting from Highbury’s expertise as we help them to extract business value from their information assets, automate business processes and in turn, reduce costs, meet compliance and regulatory obligations and realise increased staff productivity. The execution of our Information OnDemand solutions strategy is delivering results” said Barnes. “We’ve been in this market for over 15 years and our experience shows. The FileNet team is also hugely experienced and in joining Highbury, they’re helping us to achieve our goal of being the first choice provider of Information Management solutions here in South Africa, and, in time, the broader African continent.

About Highbury;
Highbury is a privately owned company which was launched to the South African market in 1995. The company has grown from being a specialist software reseller in the AS400 server market to where we are today - offering unrivalled capabilities in ‘Information OnDemand’ Solutions.

Today, Highbury has a complement of highly skilled IT professionals focused on helping customers to drive additional sales and reduce costs. Highbury is widely recognised as South Africa’s Premier Information OnDemand Solutions provider with 15 years of added-value service to a broad base of high profile customers across multiple business sectors. Our primary objective is to identify and deliver the full value of our customers’ information assets to help their businesses grow and gain competitive advantage. Return-on-investment is part of our ethos. Through strong partnerships with world-class product vendors such as IBM, Cognos, SPSS & Kofax and Service Provision with MIMECAST, we are able to deliver ‘best-of-breed’ solutions to solve customer business pains on time, and, within budget.

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We are a respected, empowered IT organisation and our ethics are reflected in our company’s’ approach to B-BBEE. We are proud of our LEVEL 2 CONTRIBUTOR status. We are focused on organic growth and re-invest company profits into staff development. We believe that it is our people that differentiate our company and through our HR development strategy we have built a dedicated loyal workforce.

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