"Expert Client" in South Africa
Bytes Technology Group
Share code : BTG
ISIN Code : ZAE000029526
Bytes Technology Group are in the stages of finalising the details towards
signature of a PAN-EMEA Large Account Reseller agreement with Microsoft.
This will enable BTG to consolidate their UK, European and South African LAR
contracts into a single agreement and will be a first for South Africa.
Rob Griggs, executive director of BTG explained:
"BTG have the single largest dedicated licensing team in the United Kingdom
who license and administer hundreds of client's contracts. All Microsoft
license agreements sold in South Africa are processed in Dublin, Ireland in
any event. Through the new PAN-EMEA agreement, BTG will be able to offer
clients in Europe and South Africa the same advanced WEB-based facilities
for ordering and subsequently tracking their license assets, as are
currently enjoyed by our UK clients, through our purelicensing WEB site and
help desk staff.
Turn-around times from placing the order through to delivery of the license
document will be greatly reduced for local SA customers as documents will be
processed directly with Microsoft in Dublin.
Microsoft themselves are promoting the PAN-EMEA agreement to their largest
LAR partners as it presents a single point of contact and simplifies and
expedites their own internal processes. Similarly, we will be able to
reduce our administrative overhead locally, whilst offering significant
efficiencies and more advanced facilities. This saving will allow increased
investment in licensing consultants, which is our true value-add."
Migration to the new administration systems has already commenced and should
be completed by early November.
In a second major announcement, BTG are launching Xpert Client in South
Africa for which they are the sole and exclusive local distributors. The
software, originally developed by Xpert Client Systems in London, has been
enhanced in a joint venture with BTG to specifically address the complex
licensing issues around Microsoft products.
"Xpert Client is capable of building a knowledge base of all Microsoft
products that are loaded on network-connected desktop devices, it can then
compare this to actual historic usage of that software and the licenses
purchased. Using the tabulated information, our consultants, having
understood the client's future business needs, can make an informed decision
as to the most cost effective manner in which to legally license and use
the software. Under the present climate of change around Microsoft's
software agreements, Xpert Client is an invaluable tool that can immediately
pay for itself. Beyond the modeling facility described, Xpert Client is
also an advanced asset tracking and management tool that provides superior
facilities to SMS at a substantially lower cost."
For further information please call Neville Wallace
@083 661 1498 (Neville.Wallace@btgroup.co.za) or Dana Jedrisko @ 082 602
1231 (dana.jedrisko@btgroup.co.za) or at (011) 800 9300.
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