Founded in 1983 and headquartered in South Africa, Dimension Data, a specialist IT services and solution provider, helps clients plan, build, support and manage their IT infrastructures. Dimension Data applies its expertise in networking, security, operating environments, storage and contact centre technologies and its unique skills in consulting, integration and managed services to create customised client solutions.We are particularly proud of our clients and our partners and the outstanding achievements we have reached working together. Dimension Data is a Microsoft Services Ready and Gold Partner on five continents, emphasising the value we place on strong collaborative relationships with the world leaders in our industry.

Who is GijimaAst?
GijimaAst is proud to be a leading South African Information and Communications Technology (ICT) company that is listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE). It has gained recognition as a preferred, integrated ICT partner to a considerable client base of large information technology users in both the private and public sectors. Its intellectual capacity, business model and encompassing geographic footprint is unrivalled in the South African market and provides clients with sophisticated and diverse service delivery options in the business solutions, systems integration, infrastructure and communications services.

To succeed in business on a smarter planet, where the world is more instrumented, intelligent, interconnected, and the demands on your infrastructure are constantly growing, a smarter kind of infrastructure is needed. One that can help improve service, reduce cost and manage risk, while accelerating growth in your business. A dynamic infrastructure - one that is designed for a smarter planet.

A dynamic infrastructure aligns business and IT assets to support the overall goals of the business while taking a smarter, new and more streamlined approach that:

• Is highly optimized to do more with less.
• Addresses the information challenge.
• Manages and mitigates risks.
• Integrates visibility, control, and automation across all business and IT assets.

Through our offerings skills, partners and experience, IBM can provide the roadmap, tools and support to accelerate an organization's evolution toward implementing a dynamic infrastructure. IBM offerings for a dynamic infrastructure include System x & BladeCenter Servers and IBM System Storage.

www.ibm.com/systems/za/dynamicinfrastructure

Blue Turtle Technologies provides solutions for optimising, enhancing and leveraging existing IT investment, and supporting the cost effective delivery of new technology initiatives. With experience from mainframe to desktop, Blue Turtle delivers solutions for the effective management of IT infrastructures employing innovative software products, backed by 'best-practice' implementation services. Blue Turtle's strategy leverages 'best-in-class' software products brought together from leading international and South African software providers to deliver compelling and cost effective technology management solutions to customers.

Rectron is a leading ICT distributor, with head offices based in Midrand. Established in 1995, Rectron has 5 branches in South Africa and 2 in Australia. Rectron’s turnover is R 1.5 Billion. The reason for Rectron’s success can be pointed to its culture with focus being placed on its customers and its employees.

K2 gives you the tools to build workflows and process-driven applications that improve business efficiency. K2 applications are flexible and scalable and can span employees, departments, organizations and line-of-business systems. And when business needs shift, modifying those applications is simple.

K2 software is built on .NET and leverages existing investments in Microsoft software infrastructure — Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, InfoPath, Visio, Visual Studio, Office, Exchange, BizTalk and Office Communications Server.

Mecer was introduced by Mustek Limited in South Africa in 1987, and has been one of the best-selling PC brands in South Africa for the past sixteen years. Mustek is a certified Intel® and Microsoft® OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer).

Mecer maintains its competitive edge by identifying and satisfying customers' needs through the incorporation of the latest international hardware components and software in its products. The product is supported by an expert national service network throughout South Africa.

Mecer PCs offer superior quality custom-designed computing solutions for all sectors of the South African market, and all desktops and notebooks incorporate the required local and international IT standards of Microsoft® WHQL testing, SABS Approval, ISO 9001 Operating Standards, and Microsoft® “Designed for Windows” Certification.

Mustek was the first South African OEM to launch Windows 7, in the Mecer range of PCs, in 2009.

Q-KON was established 21 years ago, and Q-KON South Africa in 2005. The core competency is solution providers to the telecommunication industry, and also distributors of niche telecommunication products, such as the leading VX & UX product series, manufactured by NET, an intelligent VoIP gateway required in Unified Communications.

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand service. Founded in 1989, Citrix combines virtualization, networking, and cloud computing technologies into a full portfolio of products that enable virtual workstyles for users and virtual datacenters for IT. More than 230,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT environments. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2009 was $1.61 billion.

As a leading telecommunications provider operating one of Africa's most technically innovative, reliable and secure Virtual Private Networks (VPN), MTN Business is able to offer world-class mobile telecommunications, Internet solutions and next generation communication services.

We are aware that businesses and government constantly require a 360 degree communications service and therefore, have ensured that we are perfectly positioned to meet our customer's needs to reduce costs, improve connectivity and security and ultimately partner with a reliable and knowledgeable converged communications partner.