Professional bodies and Tertiary Institutions

University of Stellenbosch

University Meets Audit Compliance Standards with New Document Management Solution (11 October 2006)
Administrators at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa wanted to improve the management of institutional knowledge to ensure academic yearbooks were published on time. The university also had to meet compliance standards by collating approximately 1,700 documents for its annual audit. The university chose Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services because of its ease of use, ability to integrate with Microsoft Office, fast time to market, and low licence cost through a Microsoft Campus Agreement.

Jowell, Glyn & Marais

Law Firm deploys robust, powerful and cost-effective Knowledge Management Solution (26 April 2006)
To address stability problems in a legacy document-control solution, partners at the South African law firm of Jowell, Glyn & Marais (JGM) implemented a new solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 - after evaluating that technology against the leading dedicated document-management systems available in South Africa. With the help of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Intervate, the firm deployed a highly customised solution that is dramatically more stable than its predecessor. The new solution enables the firm to access current documents more easily and take advantage of the value of historical documents.

SASSETA

South African Job Skills Agency Registers Gains of 82 Percent More Employers with Online Solution (24 March 2006)
South Africa’s Policing, Security, Legal, Justice, and Correctional Services (SASSETA) was founded in 2000 to facilitate and promote workplace skills development across South Africa. It implemented a Web-based ERP system based on DataNet from Praxis Computing. The solution employs Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, now part of Microsoft Dynamics running on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003. With the new system, SASSETA has increased the number of newly-registered employers by 82 percent.