PR - PIC Solutions Wins Woolworths Key IT Partner Award

Woolworths, one of Africa’s largest clothing and food retailers has named PIC Solutions as the Woolworths IT Services Supplier of the Year.

Woolworths has traded for over 75 years and has more than 330 stores throughout Africa and the Middle East. Its holding company, Woolworths Limited, is one of the top 100 companies listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange.

All of the IT Services suppliers were carefully reviewed by Woolworths for this annual award across a wide range of measures, including consistently providing innovative solutions that supported and enhanced the Woolworths Business.

The award went to PIC Solutions in recognition of the excellence of the ICT professional services team dedicated to provide ongoing support and maintenance to Woolworths for their VisionPLUS, TRIAD and StrategyWare software systems. The winner of the award in 2006 was Microsoft.

Samuel Ngumeni, Head of Woolworths Financial Services, commented, “PIC Solutions has proven most valuable in assisting us with our objective to strategically change our business decisions and policies. It makes sound business sense for us to outsource our technical support and maintenance for our credit management systems as PIC Solutions has a large team of ICT personnel; this means that the support available to our critical systems in Financial Services is broader and thus more effective.”

Stephen J. Leonard, Managing Director of PIC Solutions added, “We have built and maintained an excellent partnership with Woolworths over a number of years and our ICT specialists have worked closely with the Woolworths team across a broad spectrum of initiatives in the financial services arena, in which we provide dedicated expertise in the most cost-effective and flexible manner. This is a great achievement considering the calibre of the competition and so congratulations go out to Craig Oliver and his team for achieving so much in this software outsourcing relationship.”