{"id":86616,"date":"2015-05-06T08:24:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T06:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=86616"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:24:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T06:24:46","slug":"datatec-snaps-up-uk-business-intelligence-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/86616\/datatec-snaps-up-uk-business-intelligence-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Datatec snaps up UK business intelligence group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JSE-listed ICT group Datatec Limited&#8217;s Logicalis subsidiary has acquired Trovus, a UK business intelligence consultancy, which provides business insight solutions, professional services and managed services to large enterprise clients.<\/p>\n<p>Trovus\u2019 analytics solutions offering is highly complementary to Logicalis\u2019 Business Analytics and Information Management unit, the group noted in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The combination will enable Logicalis to significantly increase the depth of its business intelligence engagement model while retaining its focus on licence and supporting infrastructure sales, it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis acquisition of Trovus supports our strategic goal of growing annuity revenue streams within the business. Trovus has highly specialised skills,&#8221; said Jens Montanana, Datatec CEO.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The acquisition will strengthen Logicalis\u2019 Business Analytics and Information Management offering to existing customers and open new doors in the information insights and big data markets.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Datatec<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Datatec buys German firm Inforsacom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/74922\/datatec-buys-german-firm-inforsacom\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Datatec buys German firm Inforsacom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Datatec in German software developer acquisition\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/67356\/datatec-in-german-software-developer-acquisition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Datatec in German software developer acquisition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Datatec revenue up 8%\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/57543\/datatec-revenue-up-8\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Datatec revenue up 8%<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Datatec forecasts dip in profits\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/55076\/datatec-forecasts-dip-in-profits\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Datatec forecasts dip in profits<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Datatec Limited&#8217;s Logicalis subsidiary has acquired Trovus, a UK business intelligence consultancy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,765],"class_list":["post-86616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-datatec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86616","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=86616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86618,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86616\/revisions\/86618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}