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Dimension Data Targets Two More Acquisitions In South Africa

Dimension Data Targets Two More Acquisitions In South Africa

From BDlive

Dimension Data is in discussions to buy one of two companies operating in the software-applications market as part of its growth strategy.

Dimension Data Middle East and Africa CEO Derek Wilcocks said clients continued to demand that service providers manage all their information and technology functions, including hardware and software applications such as SAP and Oracle.

The group has already made acquisitions in this market, most recently Agile Business Solutions and Xpedia Fusion. Both companies provide a variety of Oracle software products and services and the acquisitions have given Dimension Data new clients in the education, telecommunications and financial services markets.

“In the next few months we will announce some more acquisitions. (These) will make us a significant player in the South African market in the application space, with original equipment manufacturers like Oracle, SAP and Microsoft,” Mr Wilcocks said.

“Besides the fact that there are significant opportunities in those markets, it is closely aligned with global offerings like cloud computing, enterprise services and outsourcing. Increasingly, we see clients not distinguishing between infrastructure application but ask to migrate applications to a cloud platform, so we will be positioned to cater for that with the skills we are bringing in.”

Cloud computing refers to sharing of computing resources including hardware and software provide services such as storage and back up.

The companies to which Dimension Data is talking operate in Southern Africa. Its brands in the Middle East and Africa region grew by 7% in the past two years to $770m.

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