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Unified Communications - Increase Productivity - Presentation

emediaIT - Unified Communications - 2011.09.01

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emediaIT is Hiring! - Advanced Systems Engineers

We are looking for an Advanced Systems Engineer to join our fast-moving team. They will work alongside our sales team, technical team, partners, suppliers and will be involved in pre-sales, support (client facing), internal systems and research & development including project management. They will be able to work in a team or alone and have the drive for continuous improvement and on-going skills development including certifications (Microsoft, Cisco etc) in key areas.

We need someone who is intelligent, hardworking, highly presentable, well-spoken, hugely ambitious, committed and looking for a career rather than a step along the way. Our company is fast paced, leading edge and we only want the best. We reward performance and results.

The candidate will need to be flexible, have the ability to learn quickly and adapt to different environments and services, products and technologies. We need someone who is as passionate about our services and products as we are.

It is expected that within the first 3 months of the candidate being employed they will:

• Complete handover from person they will be replacing (Initial Month)
• Familiarise themselves with processes and products/services
• Take full ownership of specific responsibilities assigned to them
• Advise on areas where they feel there can be improvement
• Completed initial assessments and exams required by the company (Microsoft based)

Understanding of IT Products and Services. Familiarity/Experience (Minimum 2-3 years) with most/all of the following:

•  Software Development

• Networking
  • IP addressing, routers, ADSL, firewalls, DNS, DHCP, Dynamic DNS, port forwarding, shared/networked printers, drive mapping, VPNs, wireless
• Hosting
  • Web
  • Email
• Connectivity
  • ADSL
  • VPN
• Unified Communications
  • Asterisk
  • Microsoft OCS/Lync
• Hardware
  • Servers/Workstations
  • Dell preferably
• Microsoft Server Products
  • Windows Server 2003/2008
  • SQL Server 2005/2008
  • Exchange Server 2007/2010
  • etc
• Microsoft SharePoint 2007/2010
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0/2011
• Virtualisation (Hyper-V etc)
• Active Directory
• Certificates
• Cabling

Related and up to date Microsoft certifications will be a big advantage. Click here for more information.

Mobility Solutions - Work Anywhere, Anytime - Photos

Below are photos taken at our recent Mobility Solutions event held with Microsoft and K2.

       

Mobility Solutions - Work Anywhere, Anytime - Presentation

emediaIT - Mobility Solutions - 2011.03.01

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emediaIT wins Corporate 20 Overs Cricket League!

emediaIT played in the final of our Corporate 20 Overs Cricket league on Saturday 22nd January 2011 against ADR Distributors. It was the 4th time we had entered the league and had only managed as far as the Semi Finals in previous appearances.

With this curse lifted, we were all very excited at the prospect of finally getting a shot at the trophy. Unfortunately the weather had other plans and the game had a delayed start of 14:30 as opposed to the originally scheduled 09:00. We won the toss and chose to bowl first given the overcast conditions and rather grassy wicket. A few early chances presented themselves in the field, but we did not take these and ADR made a solid start of 53/1 after their first 10 overs. Run rate wise this was fine for us, but the next 10 overs went for over 100 runs despite an amazing 19th over during which we took 4 wickets, setting us 145 for victory.

Our chase started with us losing early wickets in both the 1st and 3rd overs, but we then stabilised to 64/2 after 10, slightly ahead of where the opposition were at the same point in their innings. Good running and some great hitting from the middle order allowed us to cruise through to a 7 wicket victory with 1.5 overs to spare.

Thanks to the entire squad who helped take us all the way as well as all of our supporters, friends and family who made it a great season all round. The next corporate and indoor seasons will be starting soon and emediaIT will there once again!

emediaIT is Hiring! - Sales & Marketing Executives

We are looking for Sales & Marketing Executives to join our fast-moving team. They will work alongside our technical team and partners and will be involved in sales, marketing and customer relationship management. They will be able to work in a team or alone.

We need someone who is intelligent, hard-working, highly presentable, well-spoken (as many languages as possible), hugely ambitious, committed and looking for a career rather than a step along the way. Our company is fast paced, leading edge and we only want the best. We reward performance and results.

It is expected that within the first few months of the candidate being employed they will:

• Familiarise themselves with processes and products/services
• Complete initial Sales and Technical training as required
• Take over and own existing Accounts they will be given
• Find and establish new relationships with Clients, Suppliers and Partners
• Increase the company’s market share in key industries and regions
• Meet predefined goals and targets as well as increase those targets as performance improves
• Fuel the overall growth of the company

Familiarity/Experience with most/all of the following is an advantage:

• Software Development
• Networking
• Hosting
• Connectivity
• Unified Communications
• Hardware
• Microsoft Server Products
• Microsoft SharePoint
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM

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emediaIT takes Indoor Cricket Gold

We played the final of our Indoor Cricket League yesterday against Smoking Barrels. We had met them a few times during the course of the season and although some of the games had been fairly close, we had managed to beat them on those occasions. All of that has to be forgotten when it comes down to a final though and it was a case of winner takes all.

We unfortunately lost the toss and were put into field first. Our first 4 bowlers kept the scoring rate down by taking wickets regularly and there opening pair were unable to get off to the type of start they wanted. The batsmen after that managed to pull things back a bit, but we again pegged back the last 2 pairs and we were left with a slightly lower than par 74 to chase.

Our opening pair got off to a good start putting on close to 30 before losing a few wickets. Our next 2 pairs put on fairly steady partnerships, leaving our last pair just 16 to get off 4 overs which they passed in the second last over.

All in all it was a great game and a really solid all round season. That makes it 3 out of 3 for our Indoor Cricket efforts and we have been pushed up a good few leagues now. We wont play Indoor again until the end of the outdoor cricket season, but we will be pushing for the double this year by hopefully winning the Corporate 20 Overs Cricket League.

Thanks again to everyone who was involved in this season’s win especially the members of our squad and the supporters we had. Looking forward to next year!

FIFA Fan Fest at St. George’s Park, Port Elizabeth - SA vs Mexico - 11/06/2010

We left work early on Friday to join in the festivities at the FIFA Fan Fest at St. George’s Park, Port Elizabeth. The capacity was said to be 25 000 people and with the amount of emails from suppliers etc received to say they were clocking off early as well, combined with the cars on the road, we were worried that we actually wouldn’t get in. Luckily we got there before the rush and got decent seats with a view of the stage and the big screen.

The atmosphere was awesome and everyone really got into the vibe for the World Cup as a whole and of course Bafana Bafana who were playing their first game against Mexico. Haven’t seen such unity since the World Cup Rugby was here. We were unlucky not to clinch a 2-1 winner, but overall the 1-1 draw was probably a fair reflection of the game and an incredible start to the tournament.

  

Photos from SharePoint 2010 & K2 Breakfast

Below are some photos from the recently held SharePoint 2010 & K2 Breakfast. All in all it was a great event and well timed with the RTM versions of both SharePoint 2010 and the Office suite being made available the evening before for MSDN/TechNet subscribers (We were able to demo on SharePoint Server 2010!).

Thanks once again to all of those who attended as well as the great support from K2 and Microsoft for the event.