Tensing of the Netherlands and USA, and IST Data, of Pretoria, South Africa, announced today that they have formed a partnership to bring Tensing’s Mobile and Geo Solutions to Africa. Under the new partnership, IST will market, sell and deploy the Tensing Solutions across Africa. The new arrangement enhances Tensing’s growing presence in Africa, while giving IST Data the ability to offer its customers a full suite of intelligent and flexible ICT solutions.

Under the new partnership, IST Data will serve as a Value Added Reseller for the Tensing product suite and will also provide installation and implementation services as well as local training and ongoing after-sales support in the region.

"Tensing is pleased to be joining forces with IST, a company with an impressive track record of delivering best in class enterprise information technology products and services to Africa’s facility, utility and telecommunications sectors," said Dirk Verbeek, Director Marketing & Sales at Tensing. "We believe that under this partnership is a unique opportunity for the market to take advantage of mobile and geo technologies in preparation for worldwide events such as the World Cup in 2010."

Danie van Vuuren, Business Development Manager for IST Data said: “At IST Data we understand the unique challenges of the African continent and together with Tensing we will continue to build on our track record to deliver world-class services and solutions.

Tensing Solutions are implemented in a wide range of industries, to serve in a wide range of corporate processes. Listed below are some examples offered only for reference purposes.

• Utilities: mobile GIS applications, service & maintenance solutions, Web GIS applications, independent GIS consultancy;
• Field service: mobile applications for the processing of work orders, planning- and scheduling solutions for remote workers;
• Transport & logistics: mobile applications for fleet management, tracking and tracing of vehicles, route accounting.
  

About IST Data

IST Data is a leading black empowered Engineering Information company, that has been supplying competitive, innovative engineering information solutions to customers throughout Africa and the Middle East for the past 16 years. Being the leader in Strategic Asset and Service Management to industries and organiziations, its expertise includes fixed and mobile telecommunications networks and mobile workforce management solutions. For more information, please visit www.istltd.com