Pan African Information
and Communication Technology multinational, the Computer Warehouse Group (CWG) plc, recently launched a Tier-3 ultra-modern data
center in Lagos, just as the company unveiled its future direction, classified
as CWG2.0, reports DigitalSENSE
Business News.
The Group Chief
Executive Officer, CWG plc, Mr. Austin Okere, told DigitalSENSE Business
News
at the event which saw to the unveiling of CWG 2.0 direction, revealed that the
state of the art data center, located at Lekki phase 1, was specifically built for
CWG’s cloud computing business, which has excess capacity to enterprises,
especially banks for use as a disaster recovery data centre on a co-location
basis, alongside growing online companies such as Jumia and Konga to avail
themselves of the facility.
According to him, CWG ’s data center has been equipped with what he described
as N+1 power and environmental management infrastructure, with generate
capacity of 0.7MVA. Stressing that this would ensure incoming main power is
conditioned and available at all times, in addition to redundant and modular
250KVA Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS ).
Even as the UPS functions as
bull-mark against power surges and blowout.
Okere speaking specially on
CWG 2.0 noted that having majorly completed the pillars for Information
Technology as a Service (ITaaS) strategy, by creating a platform for rapid Pan
African growth and repositioning service model to cater to the new cloud
computing mind-set, CWG is on target to achieve the objectives of being the the number 1 IT utility enabler on the continent.
By launching three cloud services in Nigeria, namely the MTN SaaS for
Microfinance banks in conjunction with MTN Nigeria, the Diamond Yello Account
bringing Financial inclusion to the 55 million MTN Mobile subscribers in
partnership with MTN and Diamond Bank, and the CWG SMERP, which is a vertically
modular Enterprise Resource Planning application for Micro, Small and Medium
scale enterprises (MSME); which could be used on a subscription basis by
hotels, hospitals, spare-parts dealers, and farmers among others.
“We consider the refocusing of our business into a subscription based
model as a dual advantage play. In addition to being a more sustaining
strategy, it maximizes our social impact investing on the economy of Africa,
and helps to create jobs by empowering entrepreneurs. This in essence defines
the new CWG plc, which we have christened CWG 2.0” he declared.
Okere also explained that MSMEs are regarded as the engine of economic
growth, which statistically shows that there are 17m+ MSMEs in Nigeria.
“This compares overwhelmingly with the 260 listed companies on the stock
exchange. Without accurate business records, they are unable to generate the
accounting reports that banks and financial organizations can depend on to
provide financing. Without credit, they are unable to grow their businesses
aggressively,” he said, pointing out that CWG SMERP could provide
these organizations with a strong foundation for growth and sustainability and
also provide these firms the opportunity to exploit the internet to access a
bigger market.
“The substantial cost of utilizing ICT is a big barrier for these firms to
take advantage of ICT to grow their businesses,” Okere said.
On the explosive impact of MSME on the economy, Mr. Okere asserted, “… Do you that by just employing only one additional
staff each, the 17m MSME would have created 17million jobs?’
He to DigitalSENSE
Business News that
present setup by CWG requires payment only on a subscription basis which
completely removes the CAPEX requirements of ICT usage, adding that for
effective nationwide coverage, CWG will use a franchise model to enable smaller
IT firms and consultancies to assist the MSMEs as business support
organizations, and by so doing spur a secondary growth in IT MSMEs which will
create thousands of additional jobs.
Remmy Nweke
ITREALMS Online ... delivering news for ICT4DPix; Ndukwe cutting take of the data center (2) Ndukwe, Okere and Lanre Ajayi at the event.
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