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| Michael Dell with Austin Okere of CWG during his visit to Nigeria. |
THE founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dell Incorporate,
Mr. Michael Dell reiterated the commitment of his firm to the Nigerian market.
Mr. Dell who was in Nigeria last month aside impressing the
recent visit was in fulfillment of a promise made to the chief executive
officer of the Computer Warehouse Group (CWG), Mr. Austin Okere, to visit
Nigeria, two years after, also used the opportunity to meet with local business
partners.
DigitalSENSE News gathered that the visit which took place
on Friday, June 15, 2012, may not be unconnected with Mr. Dell’s promise made
in September 2010 when Computer Warehouse Group visited the Dell Executive
Briefing Center (EBC) in Texas with some customers from Nigeria, including
Ecobank International.
He also noted that the appointment of a Nigerian, Mr. Nnamdi
Orakwue as the Executive Director, Strategy and Operations by Dell was a good
boost in actualizing the trip to the most populous nation on the continent of
Africa.
To the Dell community in Nigeria, he pointed out that the
visit was to demonstrate the commitment of his company to the market than the
fulfillment of his promise.
He equally gave an insightful presentation about the current
strategic focus of Dell, and the acquisitions that have been made to support
the strategy, including acquiring Equalogic, Compellent, Wyse and Perot
Systems.
The aforementioned companies are the technology platforms
upon which Dell intends to launch into the Enterprise and Cloud spaces.
Mr. Dell later had a closed-door session with selected
partners at local Dell office at Mulliner Towers, Ikoyi-Lagos, including Austin
Okere, Founder and CEO of the Computer Warehouse Group, the acclaimed largest
Systems Integration company in West Africa; his counterpart at Dataflex, Mr.
Andy Nwani; the chief executive officer, Equipment Hall, Mr. Gbolahan Olayomi,
and Mr. Emeka Maduibuike, Managing Director of Systemtech Group.
Mr. Dell was quoted
as saying that a major plank of the Dell Partners’ strategy has been the
‘Try & Buy’ concept which has worked very well.
This was preceded by a welcome address by the Country
Manager, West Africa, Dell, Mr. Chuks Ulu-Udensi.
Speaking, Mr. Okere of Computer Warehouse Group (CWG)
explained his company has taken advantage of the opportunities of these
platforms to provide virtualization solutions to major customers in Finance and
Oil & Gas sectors such as First Bank of Nigeria, UBA, TotalElf, and Ecobank
International for their global operations coving Accra, Lagos London, Paris,
Lome and over 30 other countries.
As a result, he emphasised CWG is now considered one of the
most dominant players in the space.
Remmy Nweke
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