Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Matrixview invests in South Africa
Hello good morning and welcome to Cybersurf – your weekly dose of what is happening in cyberspace. I am Steven Lang – this week talking about an interesting new investment in South African information technology.
A multi-national company based in Singapore – Matrixview – intends to set up research centres in this country with the aim of adapting Indian technology to suit the requirements of South Africans.
The company uses Adaptive Binary Optimization – a patented technology that goes by the acronym of ABO to provide architectural solutions to enterprises. It uses its own compression technology to store and manage data.
So why do they intend to set up operations in South Africa:
Ravindran Govindan, Managing Director of Matrixview, is on the line from Singapore:
IN: We intend to set up . . . .
OUT: . . . . infrastructure products.
The products would include security applications, network enhancements as well as products relating to health care.
Matixview intends to employ local development skills and researchers in order to build products specifically for this region, because the company sees South Africa as an information technology leader in Southern Africa.
IN: The core technology, the basic . . .
OUT: . . . or Austrialia.
The company is working with the State Information Technology Agency or SITA to set up Centres of Excellence to develop local applications and as a focal point for skills transfer.
The project is very ambitious – but where will it start?
IN: The first project is most . . . .
OUT: . . . . hitherto not possible.
That was Ravindran Govindan on the line from Singapore telling us all about his company’s plans to use new technology to develop local applications in South African.
And with that we come to the end of this week’s edition of Cybersurf. Please join me again next week, same time same place.
A multi-national company based in Singapore – Matrixview – intends to set up research centres in this country with the aim of adapting Indian technology to suit the requirements of South Africans.
The company uses Adaptive Binary Optimization – a patented technology that goes by the acronym of ABO to provide architectural solutions to enterprises. It uses its own compression technology to store and manage data.
So why do they intend to set up operations in South Africa:
Ravindran Govindan, Managing Director of Matrixview, is on the line from Singapore:
IN: We intend to set up . . . .
OUT: . . . . infrastructure products.
The products would include security applications, network enhancements as well as products relating to health care.
Matixview intends to employ local development skills and researchers in order to build products specifically for this region, because the company sees South Africa as an information technology leader in Southern Africa.
IN: The core technology, the basic . . .
OUT: . . . or Austrialia.
The company is working with the State Information Technology Agency or SITA to set up Centres of Excellence to develop local applications and as a focal point for skills transfer.
The project is very ambitious – but where will it start?
IN: The first project is most . . . .
OUT: . . . . hitherto not possible.
That was Ravindran Govindan on the line from Singapore telling us all about his company’s plans to use new technology to develop local applications in South African.
And with that we come to the end of this week’s edition of Cybersurf. Please join me again next week, same time same place.
