Interview with Grove Group’s Client – SAT
We interviewed Mr. Anir Bidesi from South African Tourism about his experience with moving the organizational processes to the cloud, how Google Apps affected their core functions and the role that Grove Group played in this deployment.
What role do you hold at South African Tourism and how demanding are your day to day tasks?
I am the Head of Business Information Systems at SAT and spend the majority of my day making sure that the proper process is adhered to, disaster recovery is implemented and that there is solid business continuity. Recently I have been focusing on virtualisation deployment planning.
In the past, we have had a number of servers deployed and the environment wasn’t taken care of by my predecessors, as
Grove Group Becomes A Google Apps Premier Enterprise Reseller
Huge excitement in our offices this week. Grove Group has been chosen as a Premier Enterprise Reseller of the Google Apps™ suite of communication and collaboration tools. This new designation from Google enables customers to more easily assess a reseller’s expertise advising on and deploying Google products. Grove Group has moved from an Authorized to a Premier Reseller based on their expertise and success in helping customers deploy and use Google Apps. So basically you cannot get better than our specialist team when it comes to deployment and support.
Our CEO, Philip Witheridge, stated that the Google Apps Reseller program has been a critical component of Grove Group’s business and that Grove is pleased to be recognized as a Premier Reseller,
Grove Group and Google Roadshow in Cape Town
You might remember our rather fabulous Grove & Google Executive Forum at the One&Only last year (think inspiring Google speakers, think Google Apps, think delicious snacks).
Well you can now relive the experience on the 14th March 2012. The Grove and Google Roadshow will be held once again at the One&Only from 9am untill 11.30am. This Roadshow is specifically aimed at South African Businesses in the Cape Town area.
The guests will be able to discover Google’s Vision fo enterprises in Africa with the 100% Web world as an ideal state for business IT, where applications are delivered from a shared infrastructure via the Internet and accessed on any browser enabled device.
The Agenda for the day is not be missed:
A brief introduction to
Interview with Grove Group’s Client – CIVCON
Welcome to the first blog post in our ”Grove Group’s Clients” series. Today we had the pleasure of chatting to Shane Symons, IT/IS manager at CIVCON.
What position do you hold at CIVCON, and what are some of the challenges you face?
I am the IT / IS manager at CIVCON. My responsibilities include ensuring that CIVCON strategically leverages its IT infrastructure to not simply maintain systems and processes, but actually gain operational advantage from it. In the fast-changing world of IT, we have seen some significant developments in technological applications and platforms over the last few years, and part of my role is to ensure that we do not simply meet current needs, but adopt technologies that are going to be
