{"id":19204,"date":"2012-08-01T10:15:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T08:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=19204"},"modified":"2012-08-01T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T08:19:29","slug":"bytes-training-subsidiary-lifts-revenue-by-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/19204\/bytes-training-subsidiary-lifts-revenue-by-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Bytes training subsidiary lifts revenue by 15%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bytes People Solutions, a division of Bytes Technology Group, says that focusing on a core strategy to improve profitable revenue growth is paying off as it lifted revenue by 15%.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it performed above expectations during the past financial year with revenue and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) increasing 20%.<\/p>\n<p>Bytes People Solutions provides internationally accredited education, training, skills development, content development, online learning technologies and people consulting services.<\/p>\n<p>Bytes Technology Group is wholly owned by JSE-listed Altron Group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a good start and proved to us that our drive to implement a culture of high performance which incorporates service excellence coupled with a dynamic and flexible offering to our customers is the right strategy for our company,\u201d said MD, Dr Madelise Grobler.<\/p>\n<p>The company head believes that the success of Bytes People Solutions in skills development and training is based on its approach to provide customers with a technology road map based on a thorough business analysis which is then supported by specific training interventions.<\/p>\n<p>Grobler notes that she\u00a0and her team selected a few key areas on which they concentrated to improve profitable revenue growth such as the installation of Sales Tracker a sales tracking system to afford them real time visibility of sales activity. &#8220;We also relooked all processes within the business. Together, these new initiatives have increased the company sales exponentially over a very short period of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company lead said the company has also introduced a number of innovative offerings to further improve revenue streams. \u201cThe launch of our Classroom in a box is, for instance, a cost and effort savings solution consisting of computers, cables and data projector that are used to provide the training at the customer\u2019s premises. This offering is proving to be a great success because it is aimed at easing the input required from the client,\u201d \u00a0Grobler said.<\/p>\n<p>She says that the challenge lies in continually improving and extending service offerings. In this regard the hi-tech, real-time training facility with live teacher instruction installed at Bytes People Solutions headquarters in Midrand as well as in the Western Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal is aimed at addressing the high expenditure of companies on training, particularly in terms of travel and accommodation costs.<\/p>\n<p>It also provides regional customers access to offering previously only available in Gauteng. \u201cThis state-of-the-art technology enables seamless integration between the whiteboard and video-conferencing endpoints and increases learner participation and interaction,\u201d Grobler said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited about the year ahead and the implementation of our extensive strategy for growth. We are now looking at partnering with service providers to take the Classroom in a box offering into Africa; searching for acquisitions to complement our existing offerings; and focusing on extending the content development division and hosting of content through online leading portals which will provide an even stronger foundation from which to grow,\u201d Grobler concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Bytes acquires Alliance Business Solutions\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/18730\/bytes-acquires-alliance-business-solutions\/\">Bytes acquires Alliance Business Solutions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/1555\/altrons-bytes-to-acquire-unisys-africa\/\">Altron\u2019s Bytes to acquire Unisys Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Bytes takes aim at public sector\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/12704\/bytes-takes-aim-at-public-sector\/\">Bytes takes aim at public sector<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bytes People Solutions, a division of Bytes Technology Group, says that focusing on a core strategy to improve profitable revenue growth is paying off as it lifted revenue by 15%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,1380,3750,2842,945,3751],"class_list":["post-19204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-altron-group","tag-bytes-people-solutions","tag-bytes-technology-group","tag-it","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19206,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19204\/revisions\/19206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}