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Title: SITA 2003/2004 Annual Report Results Presentation


1
SITA 2003/2004 Annual Report Results
Presentation CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
REPORT Thursday, 30th September 2004
2
Agenda
Introduction
Business Highlights
Operations
Regional performance
IFMS
Human Capital
Acknowledgements
3
Introduction
  • First Report as SITA CEO
  • Significant degree of progress made
  • Built on solid institutional foundation
  • Founding Legislation (SITA Act No 88 of 1998,
    as amended in 2002)
  • Continuous stakeholder consultations.
  • Broad SITA Mandate
  • Efficient and cost effective management of
    procurement services
  • Certification of the quality of goods and
    services provided.
  • Management of government transversal systems.
  • Provide Professional services such as ICT
    training, Advisory Services.
  • Research and Development, etc.
  • Implemented a range of approved programmes in
    spite of a major
  • restructuring initiative.
  • Developed a three-year Strategic Plan, approved
    by the Board.

4
Business Highlights
  • Financial Performance
  • Revenue up from R 1,9 billion to R 2,3 billion.
  • Posted Profit before tax of R 51,7 million
  • The 2004-2007 Strategic Plan and Turnaround
    Strategy
  • Strategic Plan approved by the SITA Board
  • Underpinned by the Turnaround Strategys six
    Strategic Imperatives
  • Restructuring of ITAC
  • Team of external professionals and officers
    from National Treasury set up to develop an
    appropriate ITAC Model to remedy ITAC
    shortcomings
  • New Executive for Procurement subsequently
    appointed
  • Master Systems Plan
  • New product offering termed MSP in a box was
    developed by the Research and Development Unit.
  • Aims to achieve a Government-wide
    standardisation of the IT architecture
    framework.

5
Operations
  • Hosting Services
  • Increased Mainframe infrastructure to more than
    7 500 MIPS, OF WHICH 1 746 MIPS is available for
    Disaster Recovery.
  • Foundation Software also upgraded to afford
    Government the latest functionality to exploit
    capabilities on offer.
  • Printing capacity of the Bloemfontein Data
    Centre was increased from 900 to 3 300 images
    per minute.
  • Availability figures of up to 99 are
    guaranteed on Transversal Systems.
  • SITA consistently exceeded this norm and
    achieved 100 month-on-month availability. Thus,
    for instance
  • More than 1,2 million public servants are paid on
    time every month.
  • More than three million South Africans receive
    social grants monthly
  • Service Providers to the State receive payments
    on time.

6
Operations
  • Networks
  • Government Common Core Network went live on 20
    December 2002.
  • Core infrastructure provides carrier grade
    technology used by the telecommunications
    industry.
  • Supports multimedia traffic, integrating voice,
    video and data transmission capabilities within
    a single unified system.
  • Batho Pele e-Government Gateway Project
  • In conjunction with a number of stakeholders,
    critical tasks were completed to prepare the
    Gateway Project for the launch.
  • Projects was subsequently successfully launched
    in early August 2004

7
Regional Performance
  • Increased Bandwidth
  • Rural connectivity was improved through
    increases in bandwidth of a number of data
    lines.
  • Management Information System rollout
  • The phase 1 rollout of the Management
    Information System for social workers and
    social security applications was successfully
    launched.
  • Development of MSPs
  • Confirmed MSPs for Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and
    Gauteng Provincial Governments.
  • CIPAL / SITA Partnerships
  • In conjunction with CIPAL, SITA has implemented
    a Financial Application System for the Thabo
    Mofutsanyane District Municipality in July 2003.

8
Research and Development
  • MSP in a box
  • Flowing from the development of the
    MSP-in-a-box toolkit, six pilot sites.
  • Integrated Data Analysis
  • A pilot was launched at the Department of
    Social Development, which revealed that an
    enormous amount of money has been lost through
    fraud and error.
  • Tele-medicine
  • Pilot done in collaboration with the Medical
    Research Council and the National Department of
    Health.
  • Seeks to exploit cost-effective means of
    deploying tele- medicine country-wide.
  • Open Source Software
  • Project being done in collaboration with CSIR,
    CPSI and GITOC.
  • Pilot sites in government departments being
    identified.

9
The Integrated Financial Management system
  • Phase 1 of the project started in February
    2003. Some of the key
  • deliverables were
  • The development of a detailed User
    Specification Requirement (URS). Completed.
  • Finalisation of a Master Systems Plan to
    propose a technical solution. Completed.
  • Development of a Project Prospectus.

10
Human Capital
  • Training and Development
  • R 26,7 million was spent on staff development
    and training.
  • In addition, the Leadership Development
    Programme (LDP) and the Management Development
    Programme (MDP) were launched in partnership
    with the Gordon Institute of Business,
  • Employment Equity
  • 63 of SITA employees are black whilst 38 of
    them are female. The target for females is 45
  • Youth Internship Programme
  • 300 youth interns were training in various ICT
    programmes.
  • Over 100 of them have already been placed into
    positions in various government departments and
    SITA.
  • Employee Well-being
  • An HIV/AIDs Programme was launched on 1
    December 2003.

11
Acknowledgements
  • Minister of Public Service and Administration,
    Mrs Geraldine
  • Fraser-Moleketi
  • For her political support and guidance during
    such a testing time. Our thanks also go to Mr
    Alvin Rapea, former acting DG at DPSA, whose
    support we could always count on.
  • Chairperson of the SITA Board of Directors
  • For giving unwavering support to SITA
    management, whilst demanding high-level service
    delivery.
  • We also acknowledge with thanks the
    constructively critical and supportive guidance
    from the Board and its committees
  • Staff and Management
  • My special tribute goes to staff and
    management. What success we have achieved to
    date would have been unthinkable without the
    support they gave and confidence in leadership

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