{"id":16410,"date":"2012-06-25T16:03:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=16410"},"modified":"2012-06-26T10:47:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T08:47:36","slug":"jasco-appointed-verint-sa-reseller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/16410\/jasco-appointed-verint-sa-reseller\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasco appointed Verint SA reseller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Verint Systems\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/3512-Verint-Systems\">Verint Systems<\/a> has announced a new African reseller partner in <a title=\"Jasco Enterprise\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/3481-Jasco\">Jasco Enterprise<\/a> as part of its expansion into the continent.<\/p>\n<p>The group, which provides analytic software and hardware for the security, surveillance, and business intelligence markets, also announced appointments associated with its expansion plans.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Craig Butler\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/3513-Craig-Butler\">Craig Butler<\/a>, a 20-year veteran of the South African communications industry will head up operations. In his role, he will spearhead all sales and partner development programmes as Verint says it continues to drive its suite of enterprise workforce optimisation (WFO) and voice of the customer solutions across contact centre, branch and back-office operations.<\/p>\n<p>Butler previously served as country manager for Avaya Sub-Saharan Africa, where during his tenure, he successfully grew the Southern African coastal business; worked on the regional team that completed the Nortel acquisition and integration; and advanced the company\u2019s market share with a focus on the financial and insurance sector.<\/p>\n<p>He is joined by Charlene Pienaar, solutions architect, previously integration consultant at <a title=\"Business Connexion\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2141-Business-Connexion\">Business Connexion<\/a>, who brings expertise and experience consulting on Verint, <a title=\"Cisco\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2037-Cisco\">Cisco<\/a>, Avaya and <a title=\"Nortel Networks Corp\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1755-Nortel\">Nortel<\/a> product ranges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jasco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jasco Enterprise partners with technology companies to deliver customer interaction management solutions and services to support customers in financial services, government, retail, outsourcing, utilities and emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>According to Verint, adding its workforce optimisation and voice of the customer solutions will bring a robust, proven technology set, enhancing the company\u2019s overall offering, particularly in the contact centre space.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Butler, channel manager for Africa, Verint said: \u201cI am pleased to be joining Verint at such an exciting stage of its expansion into the African region. Today\u2019s organisations are charged with enhancing quality, heightening customer relationships and loyalty, and maximising the benefits of a growing virtual workforce and creating greater value from available resources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is an opportunity in Africa for Verint to position itself at the forefront of delivering tangible, actionable returns to business through workforce optimisation and voice of the customer analytics solutions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Paul Fick\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/3511-Paul-Fick\">Paul Fick<\/a>, divisional managing director, Jasco Enterprise, added: \u201cVerint\u2019s comprehensive offering in the workforce optimisation market place, strong international positioning and support for our core products make it the ideal partner. 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