Metropolitan Health Group installs COSbatch

Issued by SPI Group
Johannesburg, 06 Mar 2006

SPI, the sole Sub-Saharan distributor for UK-based Open Systems Management (OSM), today announced that the Metropolitan Health Group (MHG) had installed the latter's COSbatch job scheduling and IT operations management software.

"We have implemented the job scheduling software across our full network of processors including a new HP Itanium box," commented Rod Russell, Infrastructure manager at MHG, "and the product has already given us more control over our job scheduling than our previous product particularly in the areas of delegation and issue management.

"In addition, the implementation we have experienced was extremely impressive; the software is fully supported locally, which to us is so vital, and the financial scenario was more attractive. Thus, we are delighted to have been able to extend our relationship with SPI in this way, as we already have several other products from Optio Software and Xi Software installed on our systems that are supplied and maintained by SPI."

"We are delighted in the above endorsement given to both COSbatch and ourselves," added Chris Anderson, CEO of SPI. "This is especially gratifying in that this was the first installation of the product on the African continent. COSbatch is just one example from our portfolio of 'utility-type' software that we believe is important for the effective and efficient operation of any IT installation."

MHG is one of South Africa's leading providers of medical scheme administration and managed care solutions to the employer groups and medical schemes of blue-chip and multinational corporations, public enterprises and government departments. Its solutions are customised to the client's needs and include fully outsourced administration, system licensing options and integrated or standalone health risk management solutions.

OSM, a privately-held company, was founded in 1988 and is based out of the UK, US and Australia. OSM develops and markets security management and systems management applications for users of Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows Systems. OSM is backed by 3i, Europe's largest venture capital investment company and boasts Dike Energy, Lloyds TSB Bank, Mitchell International, St Jude Medical and Northumbrian Water among its customer base.

For further information, please contact Chris Anderson at telephone +27 11 234 1560; fax +27 11 234 1387; e-mail chris@spi.co.za

SPI

SPI is a company that provides utility software products and services to the open systems segment of the IT industry. It is the sole sub-Saharan Africa distributor for US-based FacetCorp, USA-based Innovative Routines, UK-based-Open Systems Management, US-based Optio Software and UK-based Xi Software. SPI is also the sales agent for UK-based Metron and develops some of its own software utilities to complement the overseas products that it distributes.

SPI has a wide and varied customer base and includes organisations such as Aspen Pharmacare, Johannesburg Municipality, Johannesburg University, Metropolitan Health Group, Nampak, National Brands, Stellenbosch University, UCT and Unisa.

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