PCI standard is a requirement to operate a fare system that uses EMV technology. This compliance adds significant value to our Transport Solutions offering. In line with legislation promulgated by national government, this certification will future-proof our world-first fare revenue collection, part of our public transport system framework.

The promulgation is technology agnostic, and only  refers to a bank issued fare medium that must be based on the Europay MasterCard Visa (EMV) standard that  should contain the Automated Fare Collection (AFC)  Data Structure.

This is a huge achievement! Thanks go to all who assisted in making this happen!

South African 100% Black-women owned and managed ICT company wins the Alternate Integrator platform award for the second time.

ICT- Works has once again won the Dube Tradeport Company’s iConnect Award, after doing so for the first time last year. This award is in acknowledgment of the assistance given in the creation of an alternative virtualisation platform, using Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM). Platform virtualization include the creation and use of software and hardware packagesdesigned to replicate the whole physical computer machine, often providing multiple virtual machines onto one physical platform. This type of system is important to Dube iConnect as it facilitates their overall Data Centre service offering.

Dube iConnect is a world-class telecommunications, voice and broadband ICT platform, digitally linking business enterprises with each other and the world. This includes precinct-based businesses and those surrounding the precinct. It is a fully licenced ICASA service provider and supports direct connection to high-speed international gateways through commercial partnerships with Tier 1 service providers with points of presence onsite.

Dube iConnect’s Data Centre – with infrastructure offering advanced virtualisation platforms – incorporates Cisco UCS blade architecture and EMC storage, providing resellers with an infrastructure service platform on which they are able to offer hosted solutions to the market.

The Data Centre also offers colocation (off-site data storage), comprising Modrac rackspace in a secure environment. Disaster Recovery solutions may also be offered through the reseller base.

Dube iConnect’s Local Cloud offering provides user with a local, secure and effortlessly accessible environment. With all client data locally stored at Dube TradePort, response times are swift, the risk of network connectivity problems are significantly reduced and client data is immediately available through Dube iConnect’s authorised resellers.

ICT-Works is very proud to be a partner in the provision of these world-class services that aim to accelerate availability of new-age services to South African businesses operating and excelling in a global market environment.

Congratulations to all who were part of this landmark undertaking and who made ICT-Works proud to show that we are a serious player in the provision of best-in-class Transport Solutions, both in South Africa as well as the rest of the continent!!

ICT-Works Contact Centre staff fulfilling their mandate in OCPO Contact Centre contributed immensely to the victory, as expressed by SCM ICT Chief Director, Mr. Schalk Human to Keith Rams and his team. “We won – thanks to you and your teams effort. This is primarily and firstly due to you and your staff taking a stand at the frontline – this prize is for all of us.”

Congratulations to the team holding down the fort over at National Treasury for making us all so proud!

Earlier this year, ICT-Works was proud to sponsor the Standard Bank Top Women Awards’ Top Gender Empowered ICT Company category. As a previous winner of this prestigious accolade, as well as another Top Women Award the year before, acknowledgment of other companies that are making great strides in this arena was a natural fit for the organization. During the interview Sindi also talked about some of the other initiatives that the company is involved in to increase opportunities for young people to enter the industry, which includes supporting of educational initiatives, work-readiness programmes for young students as well as our various Corporate Social Investment undertakings.

As you are aware, the City of Cape Town Tender was submitted in September 2009, after much deliberation and negotiation, the contract was finally awarded in February 2011, with the project commencing immediately thereafter. The Contract is split into two major phases, namely the project implementation phase, followed by the maintenance and support phase.

During the project implementation phase, from 2011 through to 2018, the contractual requirements changed substantially with multiple variation orders, the delivery of which ICT-Works had to accommodate, often under highly pressurised circumstances. Other challenges included a highly demanding client, ongoing changes in scope, the cancellation of the APTMS contract created further challenges in managing the overall implementation and operations, ongoing delays with station rollouts by the City of Cape Town’s third party contractors, resulted in staggered implementation and operations.  In this period there have been several changes of ICT-Works leadership, difficult partner challenges, allegations of corruption by a disgruntled former executive leading to a gruesome investigation that taught us how to better manage our documentation. Through all of these challenges the ICT-Works team persevered to maintain consistency in the delivery of this service,  and  came out stronger.

The Taking Over Certificate is a contractual milestone which is issued upon completion of the works (project implementation phase). This Certificate was finally awarded to ICT-Works on Thursday, 02 August 2018. At the same time as this Certificate was awarded, so too was the confirmation of the commencement of the seven year maintenance and support phase. This phase involves the maintenance and support of everything we have implemented to date being the end to end AFC solution. This ensures ICT-Works of seven years’ worth of annuity income,  allowing us the opportunity to continue to deliver and build on our quality service, as well as build on our relationship with the City of Cape Town. This further  gives us a strategic advantage over our competitors with respect to the forthcoming Phase 2  and other opportunities in the rest of South Africa and Africa.

This has been one of our most complex projects, making this an extremely significant milestone. Therefore please allow me, on behalf of our Board and our Exco, to congratulate this team.

It was the organisation’s immense pleasure to hand over a cheque to her for the total value of R 11 000. This is money raised from ICT-Works employees who committed themselves with their donations towards supporting this amazing woman and the very important work she does.

This is the magic that happens when the ICT-Works family comes together for something special!

Inspiring Fifty is an international institution that aims to celebrate women who not only work in, but excel in the technology sector. From a pool of nominations, it selects and profiles the 50 Top Industry Leaders in SA, Canada, Netherlands, The Nordics, Europe and France.

“The women who are listed in the Inspiring Fifty prove that technology is a field women can excel in. If she can see it, she can be it after all.” – www.inspiringfifty.com

Keep shining, Xoli!

The awards took place at Emperor’s Palace on the 17^thof August 2017 and this award was awarded to Dimension Data. ICT-Works would like to congratulate all winners and female business pioneers who are making a difference in changing the status quo. Maggy Sibiya, ICT-Works co-founder and Chief Operations Officers was among one of the judges for this year’s awards.