Local technology solutions and people resources integrator, Intuate Group, has announced the merger-acquisition of Contact Solutions, a contact centre solutions provider that has been operating in the small-to-medium enterprise (SME) market.

Ronnie Oeschger has taken up the reins at NOR Paper, marking the completion of the company’s integration into Bytes Document Solutions.

SAP Africa has appointed Andrew Waititu to the position of General Manager for East Africa, strengthening the software vendor’s presence in this growing market.

Velocity Group has acquired a majority stake on iLinx Simple Office Solutions for an undisclosed sum.

F5 Networks, a leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), has been named one of the world’s fastest-growing companies, according to Fortune.

Aegis, a global outsourcing services company and part of the Essar Group, has been ranked fourth amongst top business process outsourcing (BPO) players in the country, in a recent survey by Dataquest.

Paradigm HR Solutions, a construction and engineering industry labour broker, has been absorbed into the Cosira Group, a company within Silva Group Holdings, which Paradigm also belonged to.

MIP, one of South Africa’s leading software development houses, has appointed long-serving Patrick O’Reilly as its CIO. In this regard he will be responsible for setting architectural standards, ensuring conformity to these standards for all applications in all industry sectors and the development, implementation and management of an integrated enterprise content management platform.

Symantechas completed its acquisition of VeriSign’s identity and authentication business, which includes the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Code Signing Certificate Services, the Managed Public Key Infrastructure (MPKI) Services, the VeriSign Trust Seal, the VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service and the VIP Fraud Detection Service (FDS).

Internet Solutions (IS) and First National Bank (FNB) have given their backing to Tech4Africa, the Internet and emerging technology conference, in their role as Foundation Partners and have committed to supporting the long-term development of home-grown technology solutions on the continent.