Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 09 | Page 10

NEWS CaseWare Africa launches CloudTax: powerful solution for tax practitioners CaseWare Africa, a division of Adapt IT, has launched CloudTax, a powerful new product aimed at small, medium and large tax practices. It facilitates tracking the status of every return for every client at the right CloudTax provides tax practitioners with a central place to manage their entire practice which integrates seamlessly with SARS eFiling, says Katharine Janisch, Head of Sales and Marketing at CaseWare Africa. “Initially, we have focused on provisional tax returns, but corporate and individual return capabilities are being developed in time for clients with December year ends and the opening of the 2018 individual tax season in July 2018,” says Janisch. “This powerful product enables companies to gain complete control through full visibility of their tax practice. Katharine Janisch, Head of Sales and Marketing, CaseWare Africa time and from one central dashboard.” She highlights CloudTax’s delivery of improved productivity and profitability yields. “CloudTax seamlessly integrates with the financial reporting solution, CaseWare Working Papers, meaning that practitioners will never again have to recapture financial data to populate a return, nor will they have to search for information relating to any client, it is right at their fingertips. “One of the most exciting prospects for practitioners using CloudTax is that they will never again worry about missing a deadline – now that is a major benefit for this business sector. Even more exciting is that this solution is affordably priced for even the smallest tax practice, while providing the scalability and depth required by some of the largest tax practices in the industry,” concludes Janisch. GE signs partner agreement with HPE for digital solutions across MEA In the first year of the partnership, GE Digital’s cybersecurity solutions will be distributed through the HPE Channel Partner Network across the MEA and Turkey region, with a focus on the Gulf, Levant, northern Africa, South Africa, and Turkey. By using this existing partner network with more than 1,500 partners in the region today, HPE and GED together will bring critical digital and cybersecurity solutions to industrial controls and infrastructure networks. Johannes Koch, Managing Director, Middle East and Africa, HPE with Ali Saleh, Senior VP and Chief Commercial Officer, GE Digital, MEA and Turkey GE has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise that will bring GE Digital’s breakthrough digital industrial solutions at scale to the Middle East, Africa and Turkey. The three-year agreement with HPE is the first collaboration of this scale and scope in the region, and will focus primarily on cybersecurity solutions in operational technology, with the potential to move into other digital solutions in the future. 10 INTELLIGENTCIO Ali Saleh, Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, GE Digital MEA said, “This partnership will enable our most important customers and partners in the region to begin the journey of digital transformation in a secure environment.” Johannes Koch, Managing Director, Middle East and Africa for HPE said, “This agreement for Middle East, Africa and Turkey builds on our global partnership with GE to help our customers and partners take advantage of the industrial Internet of Things and drive digital transformation across their business. The requirement for security in both information technology and operational technology environments, and the need to protect critical infrastructures, makes this an ideal opportunity for our partners.” www.intelligentcio.com