Jasco has announced that it has acquired a 51% share in Reflex Solutions, a specialist in IT managed services, hosted IT infrastructure, cloud services and Fibre-to-the-X (FTTX) solutions.<\/p>\n
This move will bolster the Jasco Enterprise offering, enhancing its existing services and solutions and adding value through FTTX, as well as expanding Jasco\u2019s customer base within the retail, logistics, education, telecommunications and financial services sectors, the company said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur acquisition of Reflex will enhance the Jasco Enterprise offering within the blue-chip corporate market, enabling us to offer IT WAN (wide area network) and LAN (local area network), desktop and server managed services, hosted IT Infrastructure, cloud unified communications and unified communication solutions. Jasco will now also gain access to the lucrative growth market of FTTX solutions,” said\u00a0Mark van Vuuren COO at the Jasco Group.<\/p>\n
“Reflex’s customer base further expands our existing customer base within the retail, logistics, education, telecommunications and financial services sectors. The acquisition fulfils Jasco’s strategic intent of moving up the value chain towards a higher-margin professional service and annuity- based offering,\u201d<\/p>\n
Through this acquisition, Jasco Enterprise will gain additional managed services capability in the IT WAN\/LAN market, as well as the addition of a world-class Unified Communication-as-a-Service (UCaaS) to the group’s existing and new enterprise customers, complementing Jasco’s existing offerings.<\/p>\n
The acquisition also allows for further expansion of Jasco’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering through Reflex’s Virtual Machine (VM) server environment and gives Jasco access to the FTTH growth market, it said.<\/p>\n
In addition, Reflex operates its own Network Operation Centre (NOC) \/ Service Operations Centre (SOC), which will enable Jasco to offer proactive monitoring services to its existing customer base.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis mutually beneficial acquisition allows Reflex further opportunity to cross-sell to the Jasco customer base and Jasco to cross-sell the rest of the products and solutions portfolio to the Reflex customer base,” said\u00a0van Vuuren.<\/p>\n
“It also gives Jasco access to an experienced and capable management team within the information technologies solutions market.\u201d<\/p>\n