The International Business Machine (IBM) president and chief executive officer (CEO), Ms Ginni Rometty’s recent working visit to Nigeria reiterated commitment to Nigeria, even as she had an exclusive chat with the founder and CEO of Computer Warehouse Group (CWG), Mr. Austin Okere.
Ms Rometty
disclosed to DigitalSENSE
Business News during the visit that IBM’s intentions for Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) development and support in Africa and Nigeria particularly
during a courtesy call on the minister of Communication Technology, Mrs Mobola
Johnson.
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gathered from public statement made available to correspondent, Ms Rometty noted
that IBM will establish an innovation centre in Nigeria in the first quarter of
2014 and fund major ICT research projects, complementing the efforts of the
Ministry of Communication Technology’s iDEA incubation centres and other ICT
entrepreneurs to make Nigeria an ICT hub for software innovation. The Minister
of Communication Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson, commended IBM for her renewed
focus and commitment to Nigeria after a long history of operations in Nigeria.
The founder
and CEO of Computer Warehouse Group Plc; Austin Okere who had a chat with the president
and CEO of IBM; Ms Rometty during the cocktail reception for preferred partners
and customers in Lagos, revealed the recent successes that his company made
with IBM, comprising deployment of the very successful high end IBM Enterprise
Servers to Skye Bank, Mainstreet Bank and Enterprise bank to support their core
banking applications.
Mr Okere also underlined that CWG, being a premier business partner of IBM in Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda has brought immense value to the partnership through customer focused seminars and education fora with the support of the respective country local offices of IBM.
He reiterated
his company’s continued commitment to the high standards and professionalism
for which she is well known in deploying IBM technologies to businesses in
Africa. It will be recalled that earlier in the year, CWG in conjunction with
IBM and Infosys showcased IT Transformation solutions for the financial
services sector in East Africa at the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
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recalls that CWG, is a foremost Pan African systems integration company with
annual revenues in excess of $120m and a staff complement of over 650.
Currently,
CWG has physical presence in Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and Cameroon, with virtual
operations in seventeen (17) African countries. The company has a proven track
record of deploying business solutions that boost the performance of large corporate
organisations in Africa, thereby enabling these organizations to compete
globally, and contribute to the economy of the continent.
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