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High Capacity Undersea Cable to Connect Haiti to the World Two Years after Quake

By David Gitonga, TMCnet Contributing Writer

Two years after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, leaving most of the country with little to no communication networks to the outside world, the country is to receive a large boost through an undersea cable. Access to Internet broadband connectivity has been vital to the economy of the country and this undersea 200KM cable costing US $16M by Digicel Group will be pivotal in the country’s business, public and social sectors. Digicel Group has partnered with Alcatel-Lucent (News

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Softline Pastel Expands Project Management Capacity with Post Vision's PPO Solution

By Sujata GarudTMCnet Contributor

Softline Pastel has selected Post Vision Technology's Project Portfolio Office (PPO) project management solution to support Softline Pastel in realizing a more mature project management culture. 

PM.Ideas, PPO partner and project management consultant, completed the PPO deployment at Softline Pastel. The group will also establish a project life cycle development and a project management office mandate to make sure projects are executed efficiently and effectively by all Softline Pastel staff.

The project management application consists of an inherent methodology that clearly defines the required process. It also allows for reporting to explain which projects are aligned to the methodology and which are not. Hence, Guy Jelley, CEO at Post Vision Technology, holds that PPO offers Softline Pastel the functionalities to better manage its projects.

“Through the management and monitoring of this, a client is able to mature employees to use the application and the process,” said Jelley. “Intertwining an organization’s people with PPO is thus a significant factor in achieving Softline Pastel's objectives. As a project management solution, it is crucial that all users, and not just project managers, use the tool.”

Softline Pastel is one division within Softline Group, specialist accounting and business management software provider. PPO will deploy with targeted training, helping Softline Pastel grow its project management capacity through people and processes.

“Softline Pastel identified the need to develop its project staff and to implement an effective project management collaborative project toolset,” said Blessing Mate, consulting manager at Softline Pastel. “In line with its business growth strategy, Softline Pastel has to expand its deployment capacity from a people perspective. This needs to take place in alignment with an improvement in both the understanding and the execution of project management across all employees involved in deploying solutions to customers, thus enabling Softline Pastel to effectively and efficiently utilise staff involved in projects.”

Softline Pastel was recently in the news when it launched one-stop Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) portal, BEE 123. The BEE portal offers a range of tools, software, directories, news and BEE network partners to assist businesses of all sizes to understand and implement their BEE requirements.

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