Press release - 08 September 2011 (Centurion - South Africa)

ScanTrack has announced today that ScanTrack Cape (Pty) Ltd has been launched. They will be operating from Cape Town, South Africa and will serve the Cape region. The management consist of Mark Shepherd (Managing Director) and ScanTrack SAM Services Manager, Hanno Vermeulen,

The Technical and Implementation division will be managed by Tertius Smit, whilst Tracey Cloete will be responsible for existing and new Accounts.

They can be contacted at +27 21 460 4497 for any Software Asset Management, SYNC Pro Product Suite or MOCCA enquiries or support.

ScanTrack SA wins 2011 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year for South Africa

ScanTrack SA (Pty) LTD Recognized as 2011 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year for South Africa

Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa — June 23, 2011 — Today, ScanTrack SA (Pty) LTD proudly announced it has won the 2011 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award for South Africa. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.

“ScanTrack is extremely proud to accept this award” said Pat Smyth, CEO of ScanTrack. “There is no doubt that this success can be attributed to a collaborative team effort between the ScanTrack SAM team, led by Nathan Snyman, Barry Smyth and Tanja Lakic, and the Microsoft SAM team in SA. Together we believe we have taken great strides in improving business and public sector knowledge of their IT asset bases and empowered them to make more informed IT decisions going forward. “

“This award builds on us being named as the Microsoft SAM Partner of 2010 in South Africa and to our journey of becoming The SAM Partner of Choice in multiple countries around the globe.”

“We do believe however that this journey has only begun and we look forward to expanding this winning formula through partners locally and internationally. “

ScanTrack’s Focused SAM Solution Profile is ideally positioned to meet these immediate challenges and needs and is based on the following key components.

A Complete and Sustainable IT Knowledgebase - the cornerstone of an effective SAM plan - ScanTrack’s primary objective is to build and maintain a complete and accurate knowledgebase of the IT assets being utilised by customers to enable the customer, Microsoft and their partners to make informed decisions to drive effective spend, productivity improvement and ultimately customer satisfaction.

A Fully Scalable and Collaborative Approach – The challenges posed during the discovery phase require the use of multiple tools that our toolset, SYNC Pro  Product Suite, solution and services team have been utilised on environments from 50 to 20,000 seat environments and have been used in a collaborative and supportive manner with System Centre Configuration Manager, Altiris, MAP and other deployed tools.

Independent SAM Solution Provider – Regulatory changes and IT Corporate Governance processes has led to an increasing level of transparency and Independent assurance being sort by business leaders over their IT assets. ScanTrack is the first truly independent SAM solution provider to operate in South Africa and we believe our operation in New Zealand, is also the first independent SAM solution provider to operate in Australasia.

SAM Baseline Specialists - The SAM maturity level of the potential customer base has tended towards the “Basic” end of the scale with the successful deployment and sustainability of automated tools being poor or nonexistent. This has meant that ScanTrack has focused a large portion of our effort on performing “SAM Baseline Assessments” to the extent that we have become specialists and have honed our processes and tools to ensure that we can deliver accurate results very quickly. 

ScanTrack’s focus areas – SPEED…COMPLETENESS....ACCURACY…SUSTAINABILITY.

Awards were presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set of more than 3,000 entrants worldwide. ScanTrack SA (Pty) LTD was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services, as well as demonstrating excellent subsidiary engagement in South Africa. The Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award honors partners at the country level who have demonstrated business excellence in delivering Microsoft solutions to mutual customers over the past year. This award recognizes ScanTrack SA (Pty) LTD as succeeding in effective engagement with their local Microsoft office while showcasing innovation, business impact, driving customer satisfaction, and winning new customers.

“We are pleased to recognize ScanTrack SA (Pty) LTD of South Africa as Microsoft’s Country Partner of the Year,” said Jon Roskill, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “ScanTrack SA (Pty) LTD demonstrates a commitment to serving its customers, and our strong partnership is core to us winning together.”

The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year.

ScanTrack’s growing award trophy Cabinet - A Journey towards SAM Excellence:

ScanTrack is an Independent SAM Solution and Services Provider with its main operations being located in South Africa and with SAM representation in New Zealand.

The ScanTrack team of SAM specialists has developed a methodology based on the ISO standard for Software Asset Management for delivering highly beneficial SAM solutions to organisations. This approach of using a proprietary developed methodology and solution-specific tools, in conjunction with consulting services and result driven project management services, has demonstrated substantial benefit to the industry.

ScanTrack has performed over 500 IT Infrastructure and SAM reviews over a period of 5 years. These were conducted in a wide range of organisations both public and private. The company has completed reviews in 40% of the top forty companies in South Africa and performed reviews in the majority of the public sector organizational entities in both South Africa and New Zealand.

During this time many hours of research by our team of licensing specialists have been directed at compiling a comprehensive knowledge base of software titles - SYNC Pro Software Identification Database (SID) which allows us to offer a comprehensive Software Classification and categorisation service.

For additional information:
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Contact: Nerina Norval
Email: nerinan@scantracksa.com
Tel: +27 12 6632064
Web: www.scantracksa.com

Recent articles in the news

Business faces IT licensing risk

" The magnitude and reality of under-licensed software has come as a great surprise to top executives. Many of these executives have only recently spent a great deal of effort and resources introducing corporate governance policies and processes. This is according to Alexander Forbes Risk Services' unit head, Peter Cook, who says the extent of this unrecognised liability could be much higher if software providers were to become more aggressive in imposing penalty clauses.

IT asset management firm Scantrack says it recently completed software compliance reviews of over 300 organisations in SA. Findings from these reviews confirm existing Gartner statistics that 35% of software utilised within organisations is under-licensed. "

Read the full article here

Every South African Business faces serious IT licensing risk.

.“Organisations need to wake up to the business risks that they face as a result of their IT infrastructure” says, Peter Cook, Specialist Solutions, Alexander Forbes Risk Services.

 With hundreds of employees downloading, or sharing applications, spreadsheets, charts and images that require specific applications to download “the scope for the illegal dissemination and unauthorised use of proprietary and licensed technology is endless” says Cook.

 The parlous legal status of IT licensing and usage in most of South Africa’s larger companies has lead Alexander Forbes and ScanTrack, an independent IT asset management business, to establish a joint IT assessment and management consultancy.

Read the full article here

Every South African Business faces serious IT licensing risk

14 October 2010 - Peter Cook, Loss Solutions, Alexander Forbes Risk Services

"SCANTRACK has recently completed software compliance reviews for over 300 organisations in South Africa. Findings from these reviews confirms existing Gartner statistics that 35% of software utilised within organisations are under licensed. This costs the general economy R1.5 billion each year and the software industry R3.1 billion in lost income. The size and materiality of this under licensed position has come as a great surprise to top executives, many of whom have only recently spent a great deal of effort and money introducing corporate governance policies and processes. And the extent of this unrecognised liability could be much higher if the providers of the software were to become more aggressive in imposing penalty clauses. Penalties in the contracts can run to a R5 000 fine for each illegal copy used and / or a five year maximum prison sentence. A second criminal finding sees the fine rise to R10 000 per copy and a five year maximum sentence. "

Read the full article here

What is news at ScanTrack SA?

ScanTrack SA (Pty) LTD has been awarded the Microsoft Software Asset Management (SAM) Partner of the year 2010 award!

From Microsoft: " The Software Asset Management Partner of the year award recognises the partner that consistently seeks to innovate with its software asset management (SAM) solutions and services, and deliver superior experiences and value for their customers. The winning partner has implemented sustainable SAM solutions and has provided guidance to ensure its customers receive measurable benefits and savings at each stage of the SAM optimization"

The awards ceremony was held at a Gala Dinner at Sun City on 2 September 2010.

In this photo from left: Charl Everton (BSA Chairman and Microsoft SA Anti Piracy Manager), Gerry Barron (Managing Director: ScanTrack SA), Mteto Nyati (Managing Director Microsoft South Africa)

ScanTrack Services

ScanTrack offers various Software Asset Management (SAM) Services and Solutions. The process should start at the Discovery Phase and then followed through to the Ongoing SAM or Management Phase.

ScanTrack has performed Software Compliance Reviews and Software Asset Management (SAM) related services at over 300 distinct customers in South Africa. We have a proven track record and in September 2010 were awarded the Microsoft SAM Partner of the Year award for South Africa for our project work at customers where we analysed their Microsoft Licence Positions.

We are positioned to offer services on top of any incumbent tools at the client and have the added advantage of being able to utilize internally developed tools if the situation demands.

Partners

ScanTrack SA (Pty) Ltd has two major branches of operation: product development and service provisioning.

We are constantly on the lookout for partnership opportunities where there can be a symbiotic, value added approach to satisfying a customer’s requirements.

SYNC Pro Product Suite

ScanTrack aims to develop easy to use, practical and high quality products. We aim to sell products globally and are looking for partners to assist in broadening our international reach.

Our flagship product, SYNC Pro Inventory Manager is ideally suited to gathering hardware and software inventory within the organization with minimal deployment effort and within short time frames.

Hospitality Software Management Solution:

MOCCA is a fully integrated, networkable Canteen Point of Sale Management System designed to simplify and enhance canteen management. This card-based system, utilizing existing employee access cards that are linked to valid employee accounts, offers a reliable method of payment while the resulting cashless environment ensures increased security.

This cashless environment eliminates the necessity of physical cash reconciliation and dramatically enhances the transaction process at the Point-of-Sale. The system is PC based, thus the control and administration of employees and system functions is resident at a central point, namely the Administration workstation.