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With Industry expertise, skilled Oracle consultants and a number of reference-able implementations of Oracle technologies, few other solution providers can claim to be more experts at all things Oracle than New Dawn Prophesy Business Solutions.
BIG AMBITIONS
New Dawn Prophesy Business Solutions (Prophesy) is a specialist services company within the New Dawn Holdings (NDH) group, providing full turnkey delivery of the Oracle Technology product set and related services, including sales, configuration, implementation and support.
Prophesy’s managing director Deon Ferreira makes no bones about the company’s ambition of becoming a listed, multi-national Oracle one-stop shop, through the provision of collaborative solutions in selected southern African markets. “Our business approach is to provide high-quality service delivery over the shortest possible time period, leveraging our experience and knowledge of the various industries and Oracle’s tools and methodologies, and utilising project standards and templates.”
POWER PLAY
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EXTENSIVE SOLUTIONS
New Dawn Holdings, of which New Dawn Prophesy Business Solutions is a part, provides expertise and experience to a full range of clients, spanning all tiers of government as well as all industry sectors. New Dawn is able to provide an overall well integrated business solution integrating business strategies, business processes and IT solutions: • Rapid Application Development (RAD ) processes Intellectual Property (IP ) processes New Dawn Prophesy Business Solutions in turn offers the following Oracle and Oracle-related products and services: • Oracle applications |
Mahlangu says the core philosophies of the group’s BBE strategy include a desire to eliminate unfair discrimination and to uphold a “structured measure of organisational and attitudinal transformation”.
ORACLE SOLUTION CENTRE
Prophesy MD Ferreira leads a highly skilled team of engineers from the front, himself possessing almost a decade of experience in Oracle technologies.
More than 30 specialist Oracle consultants, including developers, database administrators, project managers and solution and technical architects, combine their experience, industry knowledge and technology expertise to enable Prophesy to effectively deliver knowledge based solutions to customers.
Ferreira says that more than four years’ experience is required of each Oracle specialist, gained on local and international Oracle projects. The sectoral knowledge shared by his gurus covers a wide range of industries and businesses in both the public and private sectors, including telecommunications, financial services, local and national government.
MEETING DEMANDS
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PILLARS OF A FAIR SOCIETY
New Dawn supports the following BBBEE objectives, embodied in the dti’s Codes of Good Conduct: • Internships and learnerships: NDH believes in the genuine transfer of skills and provides classroom-based sales training - in-house and on-site, with mentorship. • Social responsibility: Activities in this pillar of BBBEE cover three main areas, namely ‘commerce, community and classroom’, and includes participation in community projects, fundraising, donations, and sponsorships – all aimed at the upliftment and support of the broader community. • Affirmative procurement and SME development: Within the ambit of the Constitution and the regulatory framework, this pillar focuses on the need to use procurement as an instrument to develop broad-based empowerment. Mahlangu reflects that the Black Empowerment of South Africa Programme (BESAP ) has been developed to create a framework for partnering with black-owned businesses of all sizes, including procurement and sub-contracting from BEE companies. • NDPBS’ strategic vision and operational processes have further been encoded with strong programmes that adhere to the Codes’ guidelines on employment equity, ownership and management control. |
Prophesy also targets long-term contracts from which it can derive annuity revenue and collaborative engagements with other NDH companies.
Ferreira points out that the group’s client base runs a variety of old and new product versions, in this way opening up product upgrade opportunities. “Various recent acquisitions by the group create migration opportunities to Oracle”, he adds.
SOLUTIONS FOR BUSINESS
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ABOUT NEW DAWN New Dawn Prophesy Business Solutions (Pty) Ltd (Prophesy) is a specialist company focusing on the sale, configuration, implementation and support of the Oracle Technology product set and related services. Prophesy is a partner of choice for the provision and support of business and information management solutions and is an Oracle Partner in the three categories of eBusiness Suite, Application Server and Database. As such, we have the expertise to efficiently implement and support the full range of Oracle technologies and to customise products to meet individual requirements. Prophesy offers clients a fully integrated solution that appeals to clients’ business strategies while satisfying unique business requirements. Skills transfer, training and 24 hour product and technical support contribute to optimum utilisation of the product, resulting in the client showing gains through informed decision making and returns on investment. Prophesy is able to provide overall support of business applications solutions within Oracle system parameters focusing on: • Business Application Solutions • Sales, Implementation and Support of the full range of Oracle technologies • Information Management/ Business Intelligence • Systems and Database Administration • Custom Solutions. |
The Business Solution Centre (BSC) also incorporates application support and maintenance, based on standard practices. It allows for remote support, on-site support and hosting (ASP model), managed via service level agreements. Customers have an option of a fully outsourced service or taking components of application support services. Ferreira says Prophesy’s solution set ties in seamlessly with other New Dawn offerings, namely New Dawn Technologies and New Dawn Human Capital, ensuring the effective delivery of business solutions.
With a full house of Oracle competencies, New Dawn Prophesy’s collaboration and knowledge based approach centres around guiding customers to use the capabilities of IT for strategic success, concludes Ferreira. “Through the alignment of people, processes and technology our clients gain competitiveness within their markets.”
Contact details:
Deon Ferreira
Managing Director: Prophesy
Tel: 0861NEW DA WN
Fax: +27 11 729 2113
Email:
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URL: www.ndt.co.za