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07 May 2008

Some reports may indicate that South Africa will find it increasingly hard to compete on the international outsourcing map against powerhouses like South-East Asia, China and India, but local software development factory, UCS Software Manufacturing (UCSSM) believes that the country has “pockets of excellence to offer” where other countries will battle to compete.

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21 January 2008

Specialised outsource software developer, UCS Software Manufacturing (UCSSM), has announced that ARgility's Microsoft-based ActiveRetail software has officially been rolled out at 33 branches within the UK-based homeware retailer, The Pier. With its head office based in Abingdon, near Oxford, The Pier boasts a total of 36 stores situated throughout the UK.

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18 January 2008

Software production capabilities are growing in every African nation, with an increasing number of formal industries developing. One of the major reasons for its potential is the fact that software production is the best entry point for South Africa - and Africa - into the global IT marketplace, both on the African continent and worldwide.

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15 January 2008

There has been talk of the emergence of software factories for some time now, but it has only been the last few years that they have come to the fore on a commercial level. Certainly, if we are to keep pace with the demand for software development over the next decade, the software factory approach is going to have to be more universally adopted – and will need to be the de facto standard of handling software development, said Eric van Heerden, business development manager at UCS Software Manufacturing (UCSSM), the retail-focused software factory in the JSE securities exchange listed UCS Group Ltd.

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12 October 2007

The global shared services (SSO) is showing a vibrant increase as is the overall business process outsourcing (BPO) sector, which is expected to reach an estimated value of $146 billion by 2008. As these markets grow it is clear that China and India are the giants in this domain – and, indeed, across a spectrum of economic activities.

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2 October 2007

India, the world’s leading software outsourcing destination, makes almost four-fifths of its annual R288 billion revenue from software and back-office transactions from exports, with the US accounting for at least half of the sales of the top firms, like Satyam and Wipro, said Neels van Tonder, CEO of UCS Software Manufacturing (UCSSM), the specialised software outsourcer in the JSE Securities Exchange listed UCS Group Ltd stable.

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27 September 2007

The outsourcing market, including software outsourcing, is Increasingly gathering momentum, with continued signs that Indian outsourcing companies are still taking the lead, said Neels van Tonder, CEO of UCS Software Manufacturing (UCSSM),the software outsourcing company within the JSE Securities Exchange listed UCS Group Ltd.

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02 March 2007

ActiveRetail, the award winning Microsoft-based software product suite developed by UCS Software Manufacturing (UCSSM) – the outsourced retail product development arm of JSE Securities Exchange listed UCS Group Ltd - has landed their first UK-based contract since going the outsourcing route.

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01 December 2006

SOFTWARE developer UCS has clinched a deal to supply its products to India’s Satyam Computer Services, a technology services and consulting company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

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20 April 2006

UCS Software Manufacturing (UCSSM), the outsourced retail product development arm of UCS Group has announced that a new version of UCS Software’s leading point of sale product, ActiveRetail 4 UltiSales, will be launched in April.

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