Bytes Technology Group, the wholly-owned subsidiary of JSE-listed Altron Group, has won an Absa ICT contract worth R400 million, to provide services across Africa.<\/p>\n
The contract includes the provision of desktop EUC services and support for over 63,000 users throughout Africa.<\/p>\n
South Africa represents the highest volume, with 46,000 users across 1,351 local branches and various campus sites, Bytes said.<\/p>\n
Following on from phase one in South Africa, the service transition plan will expand to include 16 countries on the continent including: Botswana, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n
“We want to make information technology accessible to our customers in their use of smartphones and social networks,” said Absa chief information officer for Africa technology,\u00a0Alpesh Patel.<\/p>\n
“The new applications have fundamentally changed the way that we do business. We want to empower our users and at the same time maintain the security of the infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n
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