{"id":5153,"date":"2012-02-01T15:09:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=5153"},"modified":"2012-02-02T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T09:44:09","slug":"softline-pastel-launches-bee-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/5153\/softline-pastel-launches-bee-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"Softline Pastel launches BEE portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Softline Pastel\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/306505-Softline\">Softline Pastel<\/a> has unveiled its Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) portal, BEE 123, to help businesses understand and implement their BEE requirements.<\/p>\n<p>BEE123 includes Scorecard Software, which calculates empowerment scores. Users would enter the business\u2019s data for each of the seven BEE elements without having to understand complex codes and formulae. Scenario planning is also possible in the software and its embedded help functionality explains BEE in simple English, the group said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBEE compliance is a real factor in winning and retaining business, and is actually far simpler to implement than most people think,\u201d said <a title=\"Saul Symanowitz\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/351012-Saul-Symanowitz\">Saul Symanowitz<\/a>, BEE 123 divisional director.<\/p>\n<p>Proposed amendments to the BBBEE Act and the new PPPFA regulations which came into effect in December have elevated the necessity for BEE compliance, making it an essential for securing business. \u201cA BEE certified company is able to access and generate new business because its clients will earn points by using them as a supplier,\u201d Symanowitz said.<\/p>\n<p>The directories within BEE 123 make it easy for users to find BEE certified businesses. The Socio Economic Development Directory lists all pre-vetted and qualifying charities and socio economic development support associations that will earn points on the BEE scorecard. An Enterprise Development Directory also lists registered development service providers and support organisations.<\/p>\n<p>To provide a valid BEE certificate, Pastel has established a Verification Partner Network in conjunction with South Africa\u2019s leading SANAS accredited verification agencies. This network will assist all businesses in obtaining their certificates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softline Pastel has unveiled its Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) portal, BEE 123, to help businesses understand and implement their BEE requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,1232,1233,1249,1231,10327],"class_list":["post-5153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-bee","tag-bee-123","tag-saul-symanowitz","tag-softline-pastel","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5157,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions\/5157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}