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Britehouse successfully completes major SAP consolidation in the South African steel industry

August 24th, 2011 | admin

In a first for South African SAP environments and for the steel industry globally, Britehouse, Dimension Data’s specialist SAP practice, has completed the consolidation of five different SAP systems into a single master system at ArcelorMittal South Africa, Africa’s largest steel producer.
In a project that took 11 months and involved taking millions of records from the previous 10 years of the standalone systems, the consolidated system went live in April 2011 – with subsequent month-ends running as normal.

Britehouse public sector project: City of Tshwane upgrade

June 20th, 2011 | admin

In a large and complex project that included moving one of the country’s largest MS SQL Database (housing 7.5 terabytes of data) to a Data Centre – and new hardware – as well as upgrading a highly customised SAP 4.7 version to ECCC6, Convergence Partners’ investee company, Britehouse successfully brought this important public sector project, the City of Tshwane, in on time and budget with no disruption to users.

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Britehouse, one of the country’s largest SAP solution providers, has acquired a majority stake in Swicon 360 (Pty) Ltd and BasisOne (Pty) Ltd

November 30th, 2010 | admin

Britehouse, a Convergence Partners investee, has further strengthened its position in the SAP market by acquiring a majority stake in Swicon 360 (Pty) Ltd. (‘Swicon 360”) and BasisOne (Pty) Ltd. (“BasisOne”).
Swicon 360 is an established human capital management business process outsourcing solution provider and BasisOne is Africa’s first and only SA-accredited hosting provider.
These acquisitions are aimed to providing Britehouse with additional SAP capabilities in both the BPO and cloud computing environments.

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Britehouse subsidiaries, 3Fifteen and Britehouse Specialist SAP Division, included in the top ten in the Deloitte ‘Best Company to Work for Survey’

November 24th, 2009 | admin

Britehouse subsidiary 3Fifteen, has, for a second year running, achieved sixth place in the Small Company Category (50 – 300 employees) in the annual Deloitte ‘Best Company to Work For Survey’. Britehouse Specialist SAP Division, a leading South Africa SAP consultancy firm employing close to 300 people improved its ranking significantly from the previous year [...]