{"id":33022,"date":"2013-03-06T12:21:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T10:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=33022"},"modified":"2013-03-06T14:44:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T12:44:41","slug":"dvt-banks-r250-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/33022\/dvt-banks-r250-million\/","title":{"rendered":"DVT banks R250 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African software company DVT is set to exceed R250 million in revenue for its current financial year.<\/p>\n<p>DVT is a level 4 BBBEE custom-packaged software solutions provider, which offers software development, data, management and analysis services for enterprise and business in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The core software development platforms at the company are .Net, Java and Mendix.<\/p>\n<p>DVT founder and CEO, Chris Wilkins attributes the company&#8217;s revenue boost to &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; growth over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkins added that the company\u2019s success is largely a result of sticking to its core business of software development and related services since inception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur focus on an ownership-based business model coupled with hiring the right staff has been instrumental in this success,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Although the company&#8217;s margins have been under pressure in the industry as a whole, DVT has slowly improved the circumstances within which it operates, thereby negating some of the negative effects of the external market forces, Wilkins said.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the company\u2019s long-term drive to grow ICT skills in the country, Wilkins said, DVT also has a well established internship programme through which interns are managed, mentored and exposed to the right variety of projects.<\/p>\n<p>The programme currently provides internships to more than 60 graduates and entry-level professionals, and will continue to increase this number each year, Wilkins said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Software and SA<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Cisco to boost South African business funding\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/32851\/bcx-wins-big-in-public-sector\/\"><strong>Cisco to boost South African business funding<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Business Connexion completes Intergr8 IT buy\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/30993\/business-connexion-completes-intergr8-it-buy\/\"><strong>Business Connexion completes Intergr8 IT buy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/21046\/oracle-fixes-java-security-flaw\/\"><strong>Oracle fixes Java security flaw<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Disable Java, security experts warn\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/29629\/disable-java-security-experts-warn\/\"><strong>Disable Java, security experts warn<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African software company DVT is set to exceed R250 million in revenue for its current financial year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,5302,5303,1055],"class_list":["post-33022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-chris-wilkins","tag-dvt","tag-revenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33022","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=33022"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33061,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33022\/revisions\/33061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}