Software Track Record


Momentum is one of South Africa’s leading providers of insurance and asset management services to the South African market. Momentum Multiply with over, which has over 70,000 members, is Momentum’s wellness and customer loyalty program which offers members awards and discounts for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

The Momentum Multiply team were not happy with their current solution and approached Entelect Software to provide a full analysis of their current IT environment, a redesign of the Multiply portal and suggestions to improve their IT systems architecture. We took ownership of the analysis and specification phase, project management, software and solution architecture, system development, deployment and post production support.

Based on the initial analysis, the following key arrears were considered when implementing the new system:
  • The system was designed to provide a fluid user experience thus encouraging member interaction and usage
  • The SDLC process was improved and further documentation and processes were employed to improve rapid development and knowledge sharing across the team
  • Latest frameworks and technologies were selected to maximise the development times by using pre-built generic frameworks and tools
  • The system was designed to be more scalable, adaptable and maintainable by using proven best practices and methodologies.
The new web based portal allows members to log in to the system to view a personalised Multiply profile of themselves with interactive reporting. In addition the users have access to a wide range of tools, assessments, advice and incentives for clients to adapt their behaviour to improve their overall wellbeing.

The application was written in Java 1.6, using the Spring framework with a IBM DB2 database and IBM Websphere Portal 7.0 server amongst other technologies.

The web portal has been successfully deployed and a second phase of the project was commissioned. The new website was received favourably by the business owners, call centre agents and customers.
Zurich is the 3rd largest underwriter and insurance broker in the world, with presence in the in South African market. Zurich in South Africa (ZICSA), based in Johannesburg with subsidiaries in Zimbabwe and Botswana, provides short-term insurance products and services to individuals, commercial and corporate customers.

Entelect was tasked to take ownership of all delivery aspects of the project and develop a functional and interactive web portal to provide brokers with critical information and the ability to capture application data.

The first deployment of the Broker Portal, known as Broker Zone, was delivered in September 2012 and formed a key element of a wider business transformation program. The solution addressed the following:
  • Improved broker experience by improving self-service options and access to data
  • Improved processing efficiency, delivering a faster response and better service to the broker community
  • Increased quality consistency of data received from brokers
  • Reduced business operational costs for end-to-end processes.
The Entelect team took an agile approach for the implementation methodology, using a combination of scrum and continuous integration. This thinking played a large part in the design and selection of technologies that enabled integration with other systems in a true service oriented architecture. It also resulted in this solution being elected as the flagship IT project for Zurich South Africa showcasing continuous agile delivery, and was one of five international projects selected by the Zurich Global Project Management Forum to trial the Scrum Agile software development process within Zurich. In October 2012 this solution was awarded the “best project” runner up to Germany.

Next possible steps in the project include integration of quoting and new business, policy endorsements and cancellations, publishing of policy schedules.

The technology stack was based on a JEE platform, composed of the Spring Framework suite of products (Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring LDAP, JMS, ORM, Spring Integration, Spring Batch , Spring Web Services, Spring Security), Hibernate, IBATIS, Site Mash, ehCache, EJB and JQuery.
 
Aquilon delivers business benefit to the Oil & Gas and Consumer Products industry through the implementation of the specific industry solutions and enhancement packs on SAP, the world's leading software application for managing industries’ core business operations. Aquilon’s Business Software Implementation capability lies at the heart of the service offering. The project teams carry out complex implementation projects within the Oil & Gas and Consumer Products space, complemented by integration experience across core SAP ECC modules.

Entelect has recently completed work on an Aquilon product offering.
Advent Sport Entertainment and Media (ASEM), founded in 2009 by ex World Cup winning Springbok Captain, François Pienaar, connects brands and audiences in the sport and entertainment industries by driving solid partnership strategies and pioneering event engagement solutions.

ASEM approached Entelect to develop a web based event and logistics management system in a relatively short space of time. We stepped up to the challenge and delivered a cloud based solution that enables ASEM to manage projects, tasks, users and budgets for their events. A key feature is a comprehensive set of reports allowing users to view real time reports on the statuses of all events managed through the system. The application made its initial debut on the Johannesburg Art Fair which went off without any glitches!

This solution was developed in C#, using asp.net MVC3, MS Sql 2008 R2 and is one of many applications hosted by Entelect on the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform.
 
The Paarl School Logistics Management System is an online application that allows Paarl Media and the Department of Education to manage the delivery of textbooks to public schools throughout South Africa.

The School Manager project is a secure, role based system that allows the centralised capturing of school details for book delivery. The system is accessible by Paarl Media call centre staff, Department of Education staff, schools and couriers.

The system includes an SMS module that allows users to update delivery details, and the number of learners per grade and language of learning for a specific school, via SMS.

The School Management system also allows the tracking of book shortages at all schools registered on the system. It also gives the Department of Education the ability to communicate, via SMS, with all these schools.
 
The Hollard Financial Services (HFS) Underwriting System is a flexible back-end system for compiling, executing, and reporting on underwriting questionnaires.

HFS uses their underwriting system to assess and accept, or deny, applications for products that require underwriting. The existing underwriting system was limited in usability and reporting functions and did not meet the needs of the growing business.

The new version of the HFS Underwriting System has upgraded and streamlined the questionnaire design tool, allowing for easily configurable questionnaires that can be customised per product or reinsurer.

Extensive versioning, auditing and reporting functionality has been built into the system to improve data analysis and security.

The system allows both the underwriting control officer at HFS to review referrals and the underwriting officers at the reinsurers to manage the referrals in a predefined workflow process.
 
The Hollard Financial Services (HFS) Evolve.Net system is a call centre management system for sales and retention agents within HFS.

Evolve.Net maintains details about clients and their respective quotes and policies. It provides underwriting capabilities through the HFS Underwriting solution that was also developed by Entelect.

Evolve.Net allows inbound and outbound sales agents, and retention agents to create quotes for new life insurance, income protection and funeral insurance products. It also allows agents to perform underwriting against non-guaranteed products. Retention agents are able to open, track and report on retention cases.

The system integrates with HFS back-end policy administration systems.

The system was built using Microsoft .Net 3.5, Windows Forms, entity framework WCF, SQL Server 2008 R2, and PostSharp.
The Warehouse Management System manages the packing and logistical administration of Direkshinz’s products within their warehouse.

Barcode scanners are used to manage the packages entering and exiting the warehouse, as well as the placement of packages within the warehouse. It does location optimisation based on the size of the package and the space available in the warehouse.

The Warehouse Management System also tracks which clients each package belongs to and manages the correct delivery of products to clients.

The system was built using .NET3.5, SQL 2008 R2 and barcode and scanner technologies, amongst others.
Trackshinz is a web-based application that controls and monitors the progress of customer’s orders from the time the order is placed to the time that it is delivered.

Trackshinz allows Direkshinz staff to generate the necessary documents at each step in the ordering process, capture pertinent information at each phase, send relevant notifications to all parties involved and facilitate the uploading of documents into the system. The system also allows users to capture and amend orders placed by clients.

Entelect was involved in the entire life cycle of the project, from requirements elicitation to delivery of the completed system.
Entelect Inspectaware The Batis Bird Calculator is an online application which helps avid bird watchers to track their bird sightings across the globe. Users are presented with an interactive world map that provides detailed bird information for various regions across the globe. The system was designed to replace the current procedure of marking off birds on paper checklists when they have been sighted.

The system allows users to:
  • Track bird sightings across the globe,
  • Create trip reports,
  • Upload bird images,
  • Print custom checklists,
  • Browse bird information.
Entelect has been involved in the project from the initial design to the launch. Phase 1 of the project is currently live (www.batisbirdcalculator.com). Development of an additional phase will begin in Q4 2011.
Entelect Inspectaware Tourvest Travel Services required a program that allows them to produce travel itineraries in a powerlink file format. American Express can then use these files to collate its client's travel expenses into one invoice.

Tourvest eBTA is a simple, portable windows application that connects to a database, draws the required travel data, and processes it into the required file format for submission to American Express.

Entelect was involved in requirements analysis, specification, development and release of this project.
Entelect performed a thorough technical systems audit for LAW Holdings and two of its subsidiaries; LAW Active and LAW Property. The purpose of the audit was to provide relevant information regarding the systems environment at LAW Active from which strategic decisions can be made. The audit balanced business, technical and process concerns over the short and long term.

A final Audit Report was issued to LAW Holdings containing the following sub-sections:
  1. A technology and architecture report
  2. An infrastructure report
  3. A development process report
Entelect Inspectaware Liberty Health commissioned Entelect to deliver a turnkey loyalty management solution. burnjOules awards points for healthy, activity-based living which translate into cash discounts with partner stores. The project involved system specification and design, code deployment, testing and delivery.

The burnjOules enterprise software system comprises the following:
  • A member portal where products can be purchased with cash or points
  • A partner portal where partners can manage their information and retail products
  • A broker portal to facilitate client management and
  • A system administration portal
Entelect Inspectaware Symplexity is a flexible human resources and payroll calculation and management system for large and complex environments.Entelect was required to modernise the existing Symplexity system to effectively harness modern hardware. The goals of the modernisation process were to improve system-wide performance, extensibility and maintainability through a complete rewrite of the existing Symplexity system.The Symplexity solution provides a way to use the resources of multiple machines in a cluster to perform large-scale payroll calculations in mere hours that would otherwise take days to complete.
Entelect Inspectaware Nu Metro required a bespoke enterprise application for their Home Entertainment division. The application would be required to track and manage their nation-wide DVD distribution business and processes across all business units. Entelect was commissioned to design, implement, manage and deliver the complete enterprise system. The system was built to incorporate the historical and transactional data from the SAP Inventory and other systems into an operational data store. Functions were built around business divisions and each function includes a huge set of input screens, maintenance areas and reporting. A data warehouse component also exists for long term sales reporting.
Entelect Inspectaware Maptsoft required an asset tracking, inspection and maintenance system connected worldwide in real-time. The system was designed to inspect industrial equipment in any industry and assist with crucial information for decision making around safety, compliance, maintenance and procurement issues.The solution is an end-to-end architecture from PDA and RFID scanners in the mines, through the synchronisation processes to the centralised web site providing reporting and administration functions.

Entelect was fully responsible for the architecture and design, development, implementation, testing and deployment of this complex, occasionally-connected system. The project was managed using a SCRUM methodology.
Entelect Inspectaware Discovery Vitality outsourced the development of the new Vitality website to Entelect Software's Java team. This new website facilitates collaboration between internal business, marketing, graphic design and development teams. The Entelect team was tasked with bringing together Discovery's requirements and deliverables within a short time frame.

The final delivered product was unveiled at a press conference hosted at Gallagher Estate (in Midrand, South Africa) at the end of September 2009. The project can be viewed on Discovery's website , under the Vitality section.

Entelect continues to build a strong working relationship with Discovery Vitality with more exciting projects in the pipe-line.
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Entelect Inspectaware Standard Bank Online Share Trading (OST) is one of the foremost discount online brokerages on offer in South Africa. OST offers the ability to trade a number of products (equities, futures and currencies) via an easy-to-use and intuitive interface. Our consulting team came on board to provide senior development skills to new projects and to assist OST in successfully migrating their legacy applications and websites to ASP. Net. The team is not deployed as a separate entity but operates with and alongside the Standard Bank IT teams.
Entelect Inspectaware Entelect took full ownership of all software design, development and support initiatives at the Bond Exchange of South Africa. We transformed all legacy applications to newer, more efficient technology, and incorporated it into a continuous integration environment. Our solution involved more regular code releases and the quality of the code increased dramatically. We were also heavily involved in the design and architecture of all new development initiatives at BESA. A major achievement for Entelect was the design and development of a web-based derivative trading engine, with a Financial Information eXchange (FIX) engine communicating to NASDAQ OMX in Sweden to handle settlement of all trades captured. We successfully completed the development and integration testing with Nasdaq OMX under severe deadlines without compromising the quality of the solution.
Entelect Inspectaware Entelect created a Java module for Saab Systems that is responsible for reading information from various sources and rendering an Order of Battle (ORBAT) chart. The ORBAT chart is fully interactive, allowing users to click on certain members, zoom in and out, expand and collapse sub-trees and request further information. Using sophisticated routing algorithms to plot hierarchically and orthogonally, layouts are rendered in a rich client and can be saved or loaded. The vector-based icons used subscribe to the MIL2525 symbol standard.
Entelect Inspectaware Entelect recently completed a handover project at BESA, which brought the development and support of core trading platforms in-house from another development house. This project involved the Entelect resources completing training on the platforms, documenting them, developing and managing the project to ensure it was completed timeously. Now that the handover is completed, we are responsible for supporting the platforms and completing development on all future releases of the products.
Entelect Inspectaware Entelect has been involved in a collaborative partnership to provide Discovery Invest with an online distribution channel to service the investment community. This strategic initiative empowers Discovery Invests clients and brokers by giving them the capability to manage their portfolios and evaluate product information online. The Java platform provides a highly available, secure and scalable environment to handle high transaction volumes.
Entelect has provided the benchmark standard for managing people, processes and technology to ensure that all aspects of the software development life cycle lower the total cost of ownership and ensure service delivery. This initiative provides a unique blend of traditional management consultancy and an outsourced arrangement to provide skilled development specialists to service specific client requirements.
Entelect Inspectaware QuickPrice is a robust pricing and trade solution for small to large organizations. The system was developed using the Microsoft technology stack. It integrates a large array of pricing functionality with various front end portals and back end services. QuickPrice provides front office pricing, management and booking of a wide variety of derivatives and structures in several offices around the world, and provides automatic distribution and synchronisation with these different locales.

Features of the QuickPrice Trade Pricing System:
•     Distributed Computational Engine that provides a flexible computational core.
•    Customer and Counterparty Information Management and communication
•     API and Excel Integration
•     Multi model, multi instrument environment
•     Credit Risk and Portfolio pricing
•     Workflow enabled back office automation
•     Dynamic reporting across all system objects
Entelect Inspectaware Standard Bank's retail equity desk has started to market its structured products to smaller investors. The retail operational platform system, developed by Entelect, can be defined as a platform to allow for a future increase in volumes of trade for these capital protected products. The web-based system involves the conception of workflow to link the various roles and responsibilities of front-office and operations.

The system comprises several solutions and products developed by Entelect, including workflow administration, document management and business rules engines. The platform offers other functionality, including the formalisation of capturing client, broker and trade application workflow, the ability to perform events on trades, trade valuations, generation and storage of certain documents used within these workflows, and the handling of other business-related tasks such as quote maintenance, client/broker management and a full reporting suite.
 
Entelect Inspectaware The CIB Broker Portal is a web-based system where brokers can log in via the internet and manage their trades and clients in a structured products space. They can pull reports on brokerage earned, client listings, trade details and index performance. They can also take accreditation tests when CIB releases new products and view the latest product pricing. There is also workflow capability where brokers can request the latest valuations on their trades, request early terminations and apply for new trades/sales. The self-service portal has been successful in minimising the amount of administration the structured products team members have to do on behalf of their brokers.
 
Entelect Inspectaware A content aggregation and translation system (CATS) was developed for Digital Satellite TV (DSTV) Mobile. DSTV aggregates digital content from specified sources and provides this content to the major cellular providers. CATS will manage this content for DSTV, allowing it to easily configure feeds from its sources, convert and supply this content to the cellular providers in a format designated by them. The system provides a flexible framework in which DSTV Mobile can add new sources and methods of conversion, as well as control distribution mechanisms for the content.
Entelect Inspectaware Pandora is an ERP system designed and developed for Nu Metro Film Distribution to manage its royalty and distribution processes. The system is responsible for booking and distributing print and marketing materials to all Southern African theatres, the capturing and importing of box office information from these sites, as well as interfacing with the SAGE project-accounting module. Modules developed include access control, customer and supplier contact management, contract maintenance, sales, inventory management, revenue and billing, and MIS reporting. The system is built on the .Net platform, the system comprises an ASP .Net web interface, a C# web service logic layer and an MS SQL data layer.
Entelect Inspectaware Several actuarial tools have been developed for Alexander Forbes, in conjunction with Alexander Forbes' actuarial staff. These tools provide consultants with powerful instruments to assist clients with financial decision-making.
African Defence Systems (ADS) provides electronic products and systems to the South African defence industry. We aided in the development of mobile solutions using C++ and .Net Compact Framework and are doing numerous projects for ADS, most of the details of which are confidential in nature.One such project was the creation of a one-of-a-kind mobile defence system. The system is a complete artillery, targeting and engagement system running on a handheld device that controls the actions of various battlefield operatives and automates many of the complex tasks that take place during an engagement scenario. It is completely integrated within, and communicates with, a variety of other military systems - both hardware and software - thereby allowing the battlefield controllers greater range of execution and greater safety than was previously possible. The system features a custom-made Geographic Information System (GIS) integrated with live GPS data. The system is based on Microsoft's .Net Compact Framework and complex, powerful mapping and geospatial calculation libraries.
 
Entelect Inspectaware International Ferro Metals (IFM) SA (Pty) Ltd. is a provider of Ferrochrome to industries around the world with primary focus on the Stainless Steel industry. The IFM information system environment consists of a variety of commercial software packages that have evolved over time to provide the systems infrastructure necessary to support their business. In order to determine a way forward with regards to their IT strategy, to improve efficiency and ROI, IFM required a technical audit to obtain a high level view of their IT environment. The audit was performed, taking an in depth view of the positives, negatives and future requirements of each individual system and application within the IFM environment. Following from that analysis was a process of identifying problem areas and potential solutions to those problems. These solutions were then presented to certain IFM board members and a plan was implemented in order to carry out the suggestions in a cost effective and feasible manner.
Entelect Inspectaware AMT Placements supplies personnel for major shutdowns, maintenance and building projects. The Cycad RMS Viewer tool was developed for AMT to manage its candidate listings. Master data is imported via an integration component to Softline VIP. From that point, Cycad is the main tool used by recruitment researches and consultants when searching for candidates and adding information to existing candidates. The application supports adding comments, CVs and photos to the candidate profiles as well as full searching and reporting capabilities. The recruitment consultants are also able to send SMSs to potential candidates via the interface. The system makes use of a rich client (Win32), which connects to a central SQL Server database via a single Windows Communication Foundation service.
A system was designed and developed to handle client and job order management for CasColor's manufacturing plant that anodises and powder coats aluminium. The web-based solution offers functionality to capture client and delivery details as well as workflow management around the production process from the moment materials appear in the plant through to delivery planning for finished articles. Invoice generation, document management and integration to Softline Pastel are also key features of the system. In addition, there is an internet-facing portion where clients can log in and place new orders or track existing orders.
Entelect Inspectaware The Standard Bank Warrants and Share Installments website , which provides information on the warrants and share installments issued by Standard Bank, together with general information relating to warrants and market information, was upgraded to improve the usability and overall appearance of the site. Key goals in this project were to simplify the navigation and appearance of the site in order to enhance the user's experience. In order to do this, the entire front end was re-written and re-implemented. The site was also restructured to allow the Standard Bank Equity Derivatives department to dynamically change various items on the site themselves - these items include the latest market news, brochures and trading training material..
 
Entelect Inspectaware Ster-Kinekor is a full audio visual entertainment provider covering a range of film, video and game distribution and presentation areas. The Ster-Kinekor information system environment consists of a large SAP implementation and a collection of custom developed solutions mainly on the Microsoft .Net platform. To prepare a valid strategy for system rationalisation and stabilisation, Ster-Kinekor required a system audit to identify problem areas and obtain a view of their IT systems environment. The audit balanced business, technical and process concerns over the short and long term, and was split into the following four sections: a high level overview of the various systems comprising the operational architecture, problem areas identified by the business, IT staff and Entelect auditors, recommendations containing possible resolutions for the current problem areas and finally next steps to provide a roadmap showing how to proceed.
This project involved the development of a generic framework to easily facilitate the creation of new online gambling portals. The system consists of a back-office component to manage the portal and services with client facing front-ends that can easily be plugged into. The back-office component allows for the management of games, prizes, subscribers, prize redemptions, etc. The system provides a full audit trail of all prize redemptions and credit flows, and is developed in a manner which can easily provide portals in multiple languages.

An instance of the game portal framework (called Mobibuzzgames) successfully went live in April 2008..
Entelect Inspectaware Entelect designed and implemented a data warehouse and management reporting suite for Nashua Mobile executives. The project included the extraction of data from various sources, data manipulation, the development of complex management dashboards, drag-and-drop reports, trend analysis reporting, and the delivery of comprehensive functional and technical documentation. The system is secure, scalable, has low maintenance requirements and supports sophisticated error handling.
Entelect Inspectaware The online division of Standard Bank Corporate Marketing identified the need for deal, media and accolade information to be updated on the new CIB global website through live feeds. Thus, the scope of the deals, accolades and media releases (DAM) system comprises two separate web-based applications.The first is an intranet-based application, which allows members of the marketing division to capture deals, accolades and media releases into a central database, as well as modify them at a later date. Each entry can be assigned to various categories such as business sectors, regions, countries etc.
Entelect Inspectaware This system supports customer management, workflow and maintenance functions for the Client Data Group (CDG) that manages the CIB Customer Information File. This Java intranet-based application allows the CDG to capture client information in accordance with their processes and regulations. The system also provides maintenance functionality to manage, amend or delete client records via further maintenance workflows. Various reporting and authorisation services are also supported by the application.
Entelect Inspectaware This work includes extracting data from various sources, developing dashboards, drag-and-drop reports, and trend and analysis reports.
Entelect Inspectaware Entelect, in partnership with Spectrum Visual Networks, developed a game show solution for Urban Brew/E-TV/SABC 2. The solution consisted of hardware and software to enable audience participation in game shows. Our deliverables included:
  • Audience input pads (hardware).
  • Networking hardware.
  • Master control units.
  • Software for communications, unit control, questions and reporting.
The solution was first used on the National Lottery show "Live and Lucky" and later used as part of a live show called "Test the Nation". Because of the nature of live television, the solution had to perform timeously and flawlessly.
Entelect Inspectaware These systems generate sophisticated MIS reports from hundreds of millions of transactions each month.
  • The Business Bank Management Information System (BBMIS) for Absa is a sophisticated data warehousing and cubing solution that allows for a variety of financial reports to be generated from a production system for all companies that bank with Absa. The reports are generated on a monthly basis from approximately 150 million transactions per month.
  • The Value Added Performance Management (VAPM) system for Absa is similar to the BBMIS solution, however instead of pulling financial reports it generates performance management reports.
  • The Target Capture System for Absa is a production system that allows managers to evaluate and allocate targets to their bankers.
  • A sophisticated data warehouse for Virgin Money (South Africa), which provides managers and directors with the necessary information to effectively monitor and direct their business.
Entelect Inspectaware Entelect's Recruitment Management System (RMS) was customised for Standard Bank CIB to assist with its annual graduate recruitment program. The result was an appropriately branded online application that provided a solid candidate facing web-presence, and the capacity to monitor daily registrations until the last minute cut-off date. The associated management modules allowed the client to immediately discard almost half of the 11 500 applicants due to incomplete application details or weak application criteria. The application further provided for the separation of applicants into relevant groupings for allocation to HR staff and the ability to monitor the status of their appraisals. At all times during the recruitment program, applicants were kept informed of any changes via both SMS and e-mail. The net result of using the RMS was that administration overheads were significantly reduced, response times to applicants were faster and the quality of new recruits was better than in previous years.
Entelect Inspectaware A real-time, high-volume, rule-based fraud detection engine (called Detect II) was developed for Experian Bureau Limited. The system offers online credit application scoring to help detect fraudulent operations from applicants and/or operators, and is operational in a number of sites in South Africa. This system can handle hundreds of thousands of credit applications per day from multiple clients such as banks and retail outlets.
Entelect Inspectaware Nedbank's Card Division was experiencing problems with a backlog of un-cleared entries in its suspense accounts. Suspense accounts are used to facilitate the monitoring, management, and control of card-related transactions, while also being used as a buffer for error handling. A team of 13 Entelect consultants manually cleared critical accounts, established the causes of the backlog of un-cleared entries, modeled the processes involved and, in parallel to this, developed a comprehensive software package that automates the back-end clearing processes of a number of key accounts. The result has been a significant financial saving for the bank.
Entelect Inspectaware The work done for Bucks.Net constituted the design and development of a distributed credit card verification and transaction system to support the chip and PIN credit card infrastructure in the UK. The scope of the work ranged from the development of a DLL used to interface a pin entry device (PED) to its point-of-sale software (which was also developed), right through to Bucks.Net's software interface to the electronic funds transfer (EFT) network used by UK banks and authorisers.
Entelect Inspectaware Entelect assisted Nedcor's Securities and Custodial Services division (SCS) in balancing the physical scrip of client's ordinary shares to electronic based accounts. This was a requirement for dematerialisation to electronic scrip under the new STRATE system implemented on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The balancing process involved:
  • Forensic auditing and unravelling of problem accounts with the aid of a vault-balancing model. The objective of the unravelling process was to verify whether the physical share certificates held in their vault match their client's positions as stated on their computerised trading system.
  • The optimisation in terms of execution speed, upgrading and the maintenance of the vault-balancing model. The upgrading aspect involved re-factoring the source code, interfacing to existing systems, and changing the model to handle transactions which are now traded electronically on the STRATE system.
Entelect Inspectaware This project involved the specification, coding and the implementation of a fixed-variable budgeting model for Nedcor's Technology and Operations division; consisting of nearly 1000 branches, several thousand personnel and an annual budget of several billion Rand. The model can generate a budget within 15 minutes - a more than 95% improvement in turnaround time over the previous system, allowing strategic decisions to be made faster, based on more accurate data.
Closed Loop Automated Manufacture (CLAM) is a process in which objects are cast and scanned using the latest 3D imaging technologies. The scans are then compared to their "as designed" AutoCAD models and an error volume is extracted. This data is used to correct the cast object using a laser ablator. Entelect was responsible for integrating the various CLAM sub-processes as well as setting up the entire image processing part of the CLAM process. This project aimed to revolutionise the tool making industry (worth $150 billion a year) in terms of shortening prototype development lead-time and allowing reverse engineering. At the time of the project, the CLAM consortium consisted of a number of local companies and international partners such as 3D Systems, DMG (largest toolmaker in the world), Sensable Technology, Breuckmann and Deskartes.
Entelect Inspectaware Entelect developed a number of Digital Signal Processor (DSP) based embedded solutions in the power system metering and monitoring arena for Strike Technologies (part of the Altron group). Most of the products of the system are operational worldwide, particularly in Africa and Europe. The scope of the work included signal-processing algorithm, firmware and hardware design.
Entelect Inspectaware Entelect was responsible for the design and business specifications of Nashua Mobile's new billing system (CACTUS.NET) in partnership with another development house. This included re-engineering, designing and automating various processes using workflow engines.
Entelect Inspectaware Entelect resources have applied ProConsulting (proper usage of source control and testing methodologies) and well established development techniques to improve many of the online publications at Avusa Media House. These most notably include The Times , The Weekender and a fully re-engineered Business Day . Microsoft technologies such as ASP, .NET and SQL Server were used in the process of optimising, stabilising and improving these websites.
Entelect Inspectaware This solution was implemented at Nashua Mobile to adhere to the new ICASA ruling on cell phone number portability. Entelect designed and wrote the business specifications for the automated Number Portability process on the internal billing system and managed the testing and implementation. In addition, they took ownership of external interactions with all the networks and service providers.
Entelect Inspectaware The Investec Securities Online system offers local and international clients a platform to execute real time trades, manage their portfolios online and make informed investment decisions. Entelect has been working on enhancements and maintenance of this system. In addition to this, Entelect has assisted on development tasks for Market Services Online, Investec's internal online trading system. Investec strongly supports the Microsoft technology stack and Securities Online makes use of a number of Microsoft's latest offerings including .NET 3.5, LINQ, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Integration Services and Team Foundation Server.
Entelect Inspectaware At Barclays we were responsible for the design of interfaces between systems in Johannesburg and Poole in the UK. This involved a range of projects including Asset Based and Trade finance. We took responsibility for the analysis of the Barclays Africa middleware infrastructure using SOA principles. The middleware infrastructure included the payments gateway (SWIFT and other inter system payments formats) and client synchronization.
Entelect Inspectaware The nature of the consulting was to perform a quality assessment and update of Standard Bank's internal Business Requirements Definition and Application Specification prior to it being offered out for tender. The documents were issued to leading international E-Recruitment system suppliers. Our efforts were sought in line with our experience with e-recruitment practices and systems development.
Entelect Inspectaware The nature of the project was to produce a detailed list of needs in order to compare against various products and services to select and standardise on one Point of Sale system across all stores. It involved input from all levels of the organisation and collation and discovery of current and future business drivers. It involved cross-selling of business drivers within the organisation in order obtain mutual agreement on priorities and expectations of practical outcomes.
Entelect Inspectaware This work involved the design and documentation of all internal and external processes within Nashua Mobile. We were also responsible for publishing these processes on the company's intranet using an interactive application.
 

 
 
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February 20, 2013
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Entelect, through its Foundation programme, is mentoring and financially supporting 45 underprivileged school children this year. Beneficiaries' names were put forward by staff members who know them, thus forming part of the company's extended community. Entelect's commitment is to pay for school fees, books, uniforms and other related education activities until they graduate, taking on new recipients each year as the company grows. Coupled with this a team of 25 Entelect volunteers (and friends) are assisting the children and their parents or guardians on weekends with mentorship support....
Graduate bootcamp raises the bar at Entelect
February 20, 2013
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Entelect has used its extensive university networks to hire fifteen of the top Computer Science and Engineering graduates in the country. The range of graduates came from UJ, Wits, UKZN, Rhodes and NMMU, and all were in the top 10% of their respective classes. Over December and January, they were all put through a series of training sessions affectionately known as our Development Bootcamp. The Bootcamp comprised of a series of lectures and practical projects designed to teach the graduates not only the basics of software engineering but also the issues facing software engineers in the enterprise development environment. ...
Entelect announces 60% growth at year-end bash
December 7, 2012
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Entelect’s annual year-end party took place at Riverstone Lodge on Friday 23 November in Muldersdrift. A variety of team-based “Entelect Survivor Games” activities took place in the afternoon, followed by drinks and prize-giving on the terrace and a superb dinner buffet of South African foods. Dancing and festivities progressed at full vigour with the last bus departing in the early hours of the morning!...
Jaco Cronje banks R100k courtesy of the Entelect R100K Challenge!
October 16, 2012
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Last weekend saw the Entelect R100K Challenge finalists battle it out for R100 000.00 in prize money at Africa’s biggest gaming expo, rAge....

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