Teledata to open South Africa branch

NEW DELHI: Teledata Informatics Ltd is set to start its commercial operations at Durban in South Africa. With the new office at Durban, the company can install and support the Ship Manager software products in this region apart from marketing the other marine products.

According to the company, it is very confident that WebEIM, the Education ERP solution, will have better market in South Africa as its product School Manager (earlier version) is still used in some of the schools here in Durban and Johannesburg.

The company has been selling its client server software 'School Manager' through the agency network in 1994 and 95. It has also sold its software product suite Cold Storage Manager, specific to warehouses and cold storage units of South Africa.

The company has made an intensive survey of the demand for their products in South Africa and found that a vast potential exists for ERP solutions at an affordable cost. The ERP solutions will be in three segments, where the company has a large installed base have a market size of over 600 million Rands ($100 million). The company is confident of getting 12 million Rands ($ two million) in the first year.

The company will be initially posting two implementation engineers and a project manager from India and will recruit six local marketing persons.