Companies are steadily moving into providing software as a service (SaaS) solutions for various business processes. A glance at the market place shows a lot of new solution providers who are coming up with technology solutions that simplify how companies operate. Well, who ever thinks about the hardware infrastructure that consolidates all your business processes?
Prologix, a Dubai-based distribution company is just but one of them.  It specialises in the networking and telecommunication domain infrastructure, security and storage systems. The company has been in existence for 12 years and is planning to open a regional office in Kenya for East Africa in October.

Speaking to CIO East Africa on the sidelines of the recently concluded East Africa ICT Summit, Sarwan Singh, the Business Development Director, says they are value added distributors, after serving in the Middle East market for some time; they discovered the need to venture into Africa in order to provide the continent’s   young market with technological knowhow and hardware infrastructure that will benefit the communication and software development platform. For instance one of their products “BridgeWave” a gigabit point – to – point wireless link will be able to transmit data over highly secured frequencies 60 GHz and 80GHz at gigabit and Fast Ethernet speeds with add/drop data ports, and optional wire – speed AES encryption built- in.  This product can be equated to the fibre optic capabilities. The IQeye definition IP cameras and megapixel network cameras are part of the products offered in terms of security services.

According to Sarwan, the technology deployment surface suffers a high level of ignorance and a lot of training should be done by companies who handle ICT based infrastructure.  He further says that as a company, Prologix Distribution aligns itself in what giants are thinking, for example, Oracle chief Larry Ellison who runs software as a service in the open with no secrecy. In some way, this has enabled the company to advance through product analysis and reviews.

Sarwan sums up by advising CIOs to partner the right companies and provide necessary training needed to their employees for them to deploy the technology successfully.