Daily Independent Online.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004.
Firm focuses on software development
By Emma Okonji
IT. Telecom Reporter, Lagos
Committed to the nation’s technological
advancement through content development in local software, Signal Alliance, a
network management company, has extended its frontiers to local software
development, just as it unveiled a business logo for its software arm, Sasware
Limited.
The software arm of Signal Alliance that has been on
stream for some time now, has launched a new logo aimed at restructuring the
corporate image and adding value to its products. Sarsware, in addition to unveiling its new logo, announced
its partnership with two enterprise solution companies, Microsoft and Computer
Associates Limited.
Speaking on the new partnership at a press conference
in Lagos, Sarsware Managing Director,
Mrs. Adanma Onuegbu, said it is the vision of the firm to become the
leading provider in the enterprise and business management solutions, using
Microsoft and Computer Associates’ integrated solutions in providing high
profile enterprise Information Technology (IT) solutions with well qualified
staff to carter for the rising needs of customers.
Sasware, according to Onuegbu, would provide
solutions for enterprise security and management, Microsoft infrastructure
solutions, Microsoft business solutions as well as storage solutions.
She added that the solutions meet international
standards and would take care all companies that use IT to drive their
businesses, such as telecom companies, financial services companies,
manufacturing companies and service companies. Currently, the company is
providing solutions for the Nigerian Breweries, Nigerian National Petroleum
Company (NNPC), Fortune Bank, African Alliance, Computer Warehouse Limited and the Stallion Properties, the
managing director said, adding that the future of Sasware is to develop people,
solutions and partnerships.
Microsoft’s Partnership Manager, Mr. Lanre
Onosanya, while fielding questions
from newsmen, said the company believes strongly in the partnership and that
Sasware stands to gain both technical and sales support among others from the
partnership.
Managing Director of Signal Alliance, the parent body
of Sasware, Mr. Collins Onuegbu, said there are challenges and unique
opportunities, facing companies like Signal Alliance but that the company must
restructure to adapt to the ever- changing local and international ICT
environment. Our business, he said, “must be able to provide for the need
of the customer, who as he becomes more knowledgeable, becomes more demanding.
There is no longer a local standard for service quality. We must strive to be
international in service delivery, while still being constrained by the
inefficiencies in our system.”
