Seven Seas Signs ERP Joint Venture with a Leading Zimbabwean Provider

Local Information Technology solutions provider, Seven Seas Technologies, yesterday unveiled a joint investment partnership with Zimbabwe’s Twenty Third Century Systems in Kenya to spearhead the rollout of premium Enterprise applications. The full-fledged IT solutions outfit trading under the brand name: Twenty Third Century Systems Kenya, with a business mandate to provide SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions.

The joint venture between SST and TTCS is more geared towards at facilitating SAP’s aggressive market expansion drive in the continent. There are also strong hints that SAP is in the process of launching a SAP Talent Academy here in Nairobi.

Twenty Third Century Systems Kenya will also work to support  the entire clients’ ICT spectrum spanning hardware, software, connectivity and implementation services. Seven Seas Technologies is strongly considering setting up shop in Harare, Zimbabwe by jointly investing with TTCS.

“The launch of Twenty Third Century Systems Kenya as a joint venture between Seven Seas Technologies and Twenty Third Century Systems is a major milestone geared at complementing our mutual service delivery capacities to further drive shareholder value and deepen business solutions capacity,” Macharia said.

And Added: “Twenty Third Century Systems Kenya will act as a specialized business solutions provider with specialist SAP Enterprise Resource Planning solutions delivery capacity.”

Also present at the event was Andrew Waititu, the SAP General Manager for East Africa. He hailed the joint venture noting that it would help extend the reach and benefits of SAP ERP to newer markets in the region.

“The two founding companies are formidable in their respective fields”, he said. “SAP is proud of the depth of skill and experience that each of the firms wields, and which will no doubt be of benefit to our end user customers”.

Twenty Third Century Systems is the largest  SAP business solutions provider in Sub Sahara Africa and it looks to continue building its relationship with SAP to deploy varied total solutions in small, medium to large scale business enterprises across the public and private sector investments locally.

TTCS Zimbabwe CEO Mr. Ellman Chanakira said the investment between TTCS and SST has been designed to transform the East Africa regional IT industry by offering and deploying world class technology solutions.

”Our mandate is to help organizations re-establish global competitiveness and thereby accelerate development initiatives in and outside Africa through interventions with both private and public entities. From the knowledge and experience we have gained from different assignments on the African continent, we have developed a keen awareness of how to successfully accomplish the business aims of our customers,” Chanakira said.

And added: “This venture between us and Seven Seas Technologies is a culmination of a long but fruitful journey to seek a suitable partner in the East Africa market who shares our passion for world class service delivery.”

As SAP’s largest resource partner in Africa, Twenty Third Century Systems features more than 100 full time consultants and has  completed key projects in over 10 countries. The company currently has resource capacity to deploying SAP ‘All-in-One’ (A1) applications in companies with turnover of between US$ 2.5 – 50m.

For large enterprises with a turnover of more than US$50m, TTCS works closely with SAP in deploying solutions to large enterprises such as governments, oil and gas companies, utilities and related companies.