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Solutions

At Digiata, we combine leading-edge technology and extensive experience to design and implement business management solutions. Our solutions meet a multitude of business needs, but support a shared aim: to help drive our clients’ distinct business strategies.

We specialise in the Financial Services industry.

Some of the solutions we provide are:

• Integration and Automation

  TOOLS USED: Linx, Central Park

• Payments Processing

  • Collections
  • Payments
  • Status management
  • MIS reporting
  • Exception management
  • Notification management
  • Account verification

  TOOLS USED: CentralPark, GrandCentral and Downtown

• Business Process Management and Workflow Optimisation

  • Design and execute process flows
  • Automate manual processes
  • Integrate with internal and external systems
  • Optimise workflow

  TOOLS USED: Fairway, Stadium, Linx

• Report Management, Electronic Forms and Document Storage

  TOOLS USED: Formz, Greenpoint, ImageStore

• Migrations and Conversions

  • Specialists in system and data migrations
  • Asset system migration and conversion
  • Wealth system migration and conversion
  • Banking system migration and conversion
  • Data Cleansing

  TOOLS USED: Linx, Stadium

• Reconciliations

  • Unitised investment reconciliation
  • Bank reconciliation
  • GL integration

  TOOLS USED: BankRecon, Moorgate

Software Development Services

Digiata has an inhouse programming division, focused on the design and development of custom business software.

Our Value Proposition

• Robust QA (Quality Assurance) process ensures high quality software.
  1. Development environment unit testing
  2. Automated build QA
  3. Product owner acceptance testing
  4. On-site pre-QA
• Transparency in terms of costs.
• Financial services domain expertise.
• Dedicated single point of contact for project-related communication.
• We follow an agile development process

Previous Projects

Digiata has delivered bespoke software solutions for applications such as:

• Account verification - verify client account details for payments
• Deposit allocation - automatically identify and allocate account deposits
• Switch for investment industry data - Finswitch's platform is powered by Digiata.

Solution Partners

Digiata is a Twenty57 alliance partner and marketer of the following Twenty57 software products:

• BankRecon - Automate bank reconciliations in environments dealing with vast volumes of transactional data.
• Linx - Integrate systems using a simple toolset with a wide range of connectors to external systems.
• Moorgate - Streamline reconciliation of your unitised investments with asset managers.
• Stadium - Build web applications that connect to your favourite database with no coding.
• CentralPark - Automate payments and collections.
• Fairway - Do straightforward business process management.

Clients

Our clients include:

Careers

Every person working at Digiata has been chosen with the greatest of care. We value our employees highly and support them in the further development of their careers in every way that we can. We are constantly looking for driven individuals to join our team.

Current Vacancies

History

Digiata was established in 2001. We specialize in software development and business process automation services. We sell, implement and support a range of software products developed by Twenty57, our alliance partner.

Digiata operates mainly in the financial services industry in segments such as banking, asset management, retail investment, custody, employee benefits and insurance.

Digiata Group BEE Plan

Digiata’s commitment to Black Economic Empowerment remains an important strategic objective. We are classified as a Qualifying Small Enterprise (QSE). BEE Matrix was appointed our verification agent for the financial year ending 28 February 2011. Digiata qualified as a level 4 contributor which in turn will translate into a 100% procurement benefit to our clients.

Directors

Dawie de Klerk - CA(SA)

Managing Director

Dawie joined Digiata as managing director in 2004.

He is a qualified chartered accountant who started his career in the motor industry in 1993 when he was appointed as financial manager of Land Rover South Africa. He went on to become financial director of the company in 1997.

He then spent a year as group financial director of Manica Africa during 2000, which is a logistics service provider, before returning to the motor industry in 2001 when he was appointed as financial director of MG Rover and Bentley South Africa. He later became executive director of the company with the responsibility for the general management of all the different business units.

email: dawie.deklerk@digiata.com

Rob Scriven - CA(SA)

Director

Rob started Digiata together with Johan Kühn and Gawie Yssel in 2001 and is responsible for sales and implementation. As a chartered accountant, he has been involved in the design, implementation and support of many solutions – both locally and in Europe.

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Rob headed LIBAM IT for 6 years before joining Creation Software and developing solutions for the international services industry. These included: integration solutions used by organisations such as Old Mutual, Sanlam, Liberty, SCMB, TASC, Gensec and BOE; scrip lending solutions used by Old Mutual, BOE Securities, Deutsche, BJM and Investec; and reporting solutions used by SIM, Liberty Group and many other investment management companies.

email: rob.scriven@digiata.com

Lionel Naidoo - BCom

Director

Lionel is responsible for the management of Digiata's Johannesburg operations from a system implementation perspective. With more than 10 years' industry experience, Lionel has gained extensive knowledge of the financial services sector and his areas of expertise include: Unit Trusts and Mutual Funds, Payments Processing, Collection Processing, Short and Long Term Insurance, Banking, Employee Benefits and Life Operations. He has successfully completed numerous system implementation projects whilst at Digiata.

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Lionel joined Digiata in 2004 as a senior systems analyst, was soon promoted to the position of Implementation Manager and in June 2008, he was appointed Director of the company.

Prior to joining Digiata, he worked at Silica Unit Trust Fund Administration, JSE Securities Exchange South Africa and the Northern Cape Provincial Department of Health, Welfare and Environmental Affairs.

email: lionel.naidoo@digiata.com

Johan Kühn - BEng (Industrial)

Director

Johan is an Industrial Engineer and has managed and implemented many solutions around the multi-manager and outsourced management environments over the past 12 years.

email: johan.kuhn@digiata.com

Gawie Yssel - CA(SA)

Technical Director

Gawie started Digiata together with Johan Kühn and Rob Scriven in 2001 and serves as technical director of the company.

In 1997 he had started Creation Software together with Rob Scriven. The company was sold to Peregrine Systems, where he subsequently served as director until 2001. Gawie is a qualified chartered accountant. He started out at Price Waterhouse Coopers and then moved over to the hospitality industry, working as financial director of YHotels until 1997.

email: gawie.yssel@digiata.com