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Traditional practice places Kenyans on long queues to manage transactions.

Booking and scheduling of meetings, placement of transactions on the most part are a rudimentary practice, with a back and forth that goes back more than forth.

In this regard, Mobile money and electronic transactions have provided our economies an opportunity to quicken transactions and validate business processes.

Interestingly, it is in the areas with the most risk where this new field has been explored. Old Mutual, on one hand, has hastened the creation of a mobile premium payment method.

Equity Bank, on the other, have their Ezzy24/7 solution, that has propelled their status in the banking industry by providing a platform for Agent banking.

The enterprise eco-system should quickly realise that the millions of dollars that Virtual City won on the global scale for the provision of integrated solutions for the mobile workforce was a pointer on the direction on opportunities and modes of conduct on a global scale.

Rivotek Kenya Limited went down this road in 2003, and is a thought leader in the enterprise content management via the mobile workforce.

Rich Mobile Client for Microsoft LCS 2003

In a nutshell, the Rivotek Rich Mobile Client (R2MC) is designed to address the needs of mobile information workers who require a comprehensive, intuitive mobile application that combines quick access to enterprise contacts (“buddies”) for instant messaging with quick access to enterprise applications and data.

R2MC is available as an optimized native application on Pocket PC, Palm OS, and BlackBerry devices.

Functionality and Benefits:

Combines access to enterprise contacts and back-office applications into one user interface

Client is extensible to support customization and development of third-party applications

Supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for security

Optimized for low-bandwidth environments

More on the solution HERE.

BENEFITS OF ONLINE TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT

• Information Integrity: Be it from the perpective of a student making an application to a university, or an enterprise worker performing a business action, the information entering a database tends to be much more accurate whence the person with the greatest interest in the data’s credibility makes the entry.
•  Shortened Process Tree: The steps taken to execute a process is greatly shortened by implementing a secure online transaction management system. Ask KRA! The obvious results are better tracking and accountability,greater cost savings, increased productivity, and time savings.

This is why Rivotek has focused the application of Online DMS in two areas it is most passionate about, healthcare and education, through OARS and PharmasoftOnline.

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Other exhibiters are Airwagon Cagon Movers Limited,  Zhejian Gongdong Medical Technology Limited, Beijing Concluso Tech Limited, Xexi Health, St John’s Ambulance, Aquarius Media, Kenya Medical womens Association, EmexAfrica among many others.

Join us.

We highlighted the following offerings:

Providing on premise or cloud hosted solutions for

* Online point of sale for retail stores

* Online student registration and academic info (OARS)

* Online B2B trading portal for goods and service

(Business Visions & Pharmasoft online)

And on some of our core products:

RegSys – School management information software

Pharmasoft/med – operation controls software designed for pharmaceuticals and health care facilities.

TechHR – Human Resource Management Software

Web and mobile localization – methodology & mechanization framework for translation & localization of content material from a source language to a target language for web and mobile applications hosted in the cloud server.

We hope organizations are now able to find the solutions they need that we provide.

Enabling people to understand what it takes to take on professional certification courses is an important element of informing one’s education clients properly.

This is the role Rivotek Kenya Limited came in to do for Makini Schools during their open day.

The college, having launched its IT Academy, and offering professional courses, stand apart from other colleges in its field by offering world class certification.

The Microsoft IT Academy Program enables colleges to offer official Microsoft Courseware and certification for students.

This makes the college globally credible and makes the students global resources.

However, most students do not understand the benefits of this kind of certification, and thus a precious few of Kenya‘s population invest in this kind of education. Even worse, an even smaller number of organisations offering tertiary learning invest in affiliation with global education and certification providers.

Rivotek aids  both the educators and learners by providing the business consultancy and training necessary to move organisations to the next level, and to inform individuals of the opportunities they stand to gain.

This event, held on the 14th of April, showcased benefits from disparate professional bodies like KASNEB, ACCA, ABE and Microsoft Learning.

Both educators and students got to interact in an off-centre and interactive environment and got informed!

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The team from Rivotek were in Gauteng, Midrand, Johanesburg, from the 22nd to the 25th of March 2011 for the Microsoft Live @Edu and Learning Gateway conference at Bytes People Solutions.

There, we had key interactions with the Edu community in IT from all over Africa. 

The goal was for partners to understand Microsoft’s role and and direction in Education, and understanding the pertinent programs offered from both a technical and a business perspective.

Education portals and integrated information systems under unified communications was stressed, and the teams trained extensively on Live@Edu, Sharepoint as an LMS, Moodle integration with Live@Edu and Windows Multipoint Server.

We also got a sneek peek into the concepts and offerings in Office 365 for Education.

Its amazing what an education institution can do with a little investment in ICT. 

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Rivotek Kenya Limited is now a Microsoft Authorised Education Reseller.

This skillset recognises the organisation’s capacity to offer professional services to the education community for Microsoft.

Apart from being a Microsoft Partner, a specialised skillset on education reselling enables the organisation to pass down added benefits and value addition to the education community at large, from the Kindergartens and nursery schools to University and Tertiary education institutions.

In addition, Rivotek is promoting great education offers from  Microsoft,McaFee, ICDL, Vmware,IBM SPSS,CISCO and Intel on the  delivery of quality ICT education partnership between these entities and Technical Training Colleges and Universities so that valid certification delivery,licensing and training for students and staff is offered in Kenya.

We look foward to bringing greater value to the education fraternity in East Africa and beyond.

Microsoft Online Services consist of :

Microsoft Exchange Online

Microsoft Office Live Meeting

Microsoft Office SharePoint Online

Microsoft Office Communications Online

These solutions are web hosted applications that are an integral part of the global shift to cloud.

We are in a central position in this migration, currently deploying Outlook Live for the Teachers Service Commission in Kenya.

We provide planning services, migration, and training and integrating adoption and usage of Business Productivity Online Suites.

BPOS is a rich set of communication, e-mail, and collaboration applications via a subscription-based service hosted by Microsoft.

If you are a noob and you use your computer as is, you definately should be reading this.

For the last year or so the toolbar has been the medium of choice for targeted marketing.

Most software companies have utilised toolbars as part of their initial set up configuration, thus automatically linking your web experience to them.

The result is you install software and realise you have a shrunken visual space as you open your browser. but lo and behold; you have a quick link to your email, a radio player,a goole or bing search are a nes ticker!

A tool bar is that thingy on top of your web page that sits there with a yahoo button, facebook button, rss button, home page button…you get the drift.

the concept behind this is targeted marketing, whereby the software solution provide gives a consumer a direct link to his portal ( generating hits , mindshare , and usage).

They have been put to several uses, and the more creative ones have made the concept viral, allowing end users to recreate and distribute their own toolbars for themselves, their businesses, networks or organisation.

A good example of this is Conduit.com

http://www.conduit.com

Yahoo, google, Microsoft among others are all companies that prepackage toolbars in their software unwrappers.

ENTER FIREFOX.

Firefox are at the forefront of tweaking and enhancing a free browsing experience.
the utilities and tools they offer are numerous but i beg to focus on one; the firefox persona.

http://www.getpersonas.com

Personas are easy to use web browser themes that let you select the look, feel and features of your firefox browsing experience.

As is the popular structure in development right now, where by the software company releases a technology and then develops a software development kit ( SDK ) to developpers who then go crazy with it and interpret it to their varied markets. But I digress and I will speak more on this in my post on Emerging Models in Emerging Markets.

The persona gives individuals,companies,organisations and networks the opportunity to create base level look, feel and content for the persona, which is then popularised through usage by communities.
A relatively fresh concept that comes with a firefox update, content and usage is still being developped.

I am thinking companies promoting toolbar usage should not ignore this, as it only serves to further heighten the toolbar experience.

This simple concept is bound to catch on and i am looking forward to where it will go… or will it just be overtaken by new technology? hmmm….

The Ministry of Education in patnership with Kenya ICT Trust Fund, Microsoft, UNESCO and ICWE Africa welcome all to the Regional Education Conference on e-Learning scheduled from 29th to 31st March at Kenya Instute of Edcucation (KIE), Nairobi ,Kenya.

Regional Education Conference on e-Learning “Transforming Education Through e-Learning” will be a forum to explore, identify and synergize innovative approaches for harnessing the potential of ICT to address issues of equity, access and education for all. Sub-thematic areas will include:

• Digital content
• Capacity Building
• Infrastructure
• Connectivity
• ICT Intergration in Education

Find details on Registration at http://www.icwe.co.ke/elearn2010/