Offices and Facilities

				Offices and Facilities

	The Infomet Offices are equipped with a modern and state of the art infrastructure. Location Located in the heart of Sandton, close to all the major Financial Service Organizations and Information Technology Vendors such as: Nedcor Origin Rand Merchant Bank Investec Deutsche Bank Citibank Discovery Health IBM Reuters Meryll Lynch, etc. This ensures that Infomet provides a much better service to its clients. Across the street is Sandton Square, which means that we are close to top class hotels and the International Convention Centre. This is convenient for our clients and foreign guests visiting us for either consulting work sessions or training.

		Offices Our offices are fashionable and modern and it creates a productive and pleasant surrounding for our workers. The office layout has been engineered for a functional and productive work flow. Most of our furniture and equipment has been manufactured for our specific purposes. Reception Guests are welcomed at the reception where there is a comfortable lounge where they can wait. From there, guests will be guided to the appropriate Infomet Centre, where friendly consultants will host their visit at Infomet. Engagement Centre The Engagement Centre is our prime contact point and clients will be directed from here to the respected centres, depending on their needs and requirements. Typically, the Consulting Centre first.


			Consulting Centre The Consulting Centre consists of an area specially designated and equipped for consulting work sessions with our clients. We welcome our clients to a lounge where we can have informal and friendly discussions about business. Once more serious sessions start consultants will make use of adjacent consulting rooms. Here we have work tables designed especially for small JAD work sessions. The facilitator is able to use the desktops to model the specifications, after which the designs are copied, stored and relayed to the development centre where they are turned into formal documented models. Each room is equipped with a telephone for teleconferencing, and Infomet manuals are available at all times. Consultants or clients having mobile computers can log on to the wireless network in order to access the intranet, the internet, e-mail, printers or whatever facilities they require. There is a break away area where customers can have coffee or tea with some snacks while watching a news channel or a broadcast from our own Infomet TV channel off our Intraweb site.

		Training Centre A separate entrance is used to the Training Centre so that the normal office work flow is not interrupted. Students are welcomed by the Training Administrator, and they can register on cube computers at the touchdown area. Students on the way to the Training Room, pass the Server Room which is a show case with impressive technology visible through glass panes. A very good ambience exists in our Training Rooms. They are modern and comfortable and the desks are custom made. There are no untidy wires. High Tech notebooks connect via a wireless network. Overhead projectors with collaboration facilities are provided to maximize the experience of real interactive onsite training. It not only puts our lecturers in touch with each student but also allows them to monitor and facilitate maximum learning. The Training Centre also features a large pleasant pause area where our students and clients can have refreshments and interact with one another during their breaks. Apart from light lunches being served, there are hygienic water, coffee and tea machines, as well as vending machines available for sweets and cool drinks. Our Training Centre also has a well equipped printer room, with several high speed printers, as well as pigeon holes for preparing and keeping training material in stock. Logistically we are well equipped to run courses.



The three training rooms are named after previous Infomet directors: *Cedric Tyler, who was Infomet’s first Business Development and Marketing Director. Hannes Van Rensburg, Consulting Director and later founder of Fundamo. John De Carvalho, IBM designated director on the Infomet Board The Development Centre* The Development Centre is purposefully located on the second floor, away from the other centres, where developers have their own self-contained environment with well equipped offices and a workshop where technical issues can be addressed. Whether it is performance benchmarking or the assembly of computer configurations for customers, the workshop enables Infomet to maintain and develop highly competent technical skills together with its developers. This also ensures that our applications run at great speeds on the platform, and this ensures that we are able to deploy projects much faster than any of our competitors. The Development Centre is equipped with it’s our boardroom for having interactive work sessions. It is equipped with overhead projectors and screens, as well as copy boards to make these sessions productive. This room is named after *Marius Rochon, who was Infomet’s first Development Centre Director, and designed our first set of case tools (Infomet/DC). In the Ante area, developers can relax after a hard days work while mingling with colleagues and thereafter brave the traffic back home. With a well equipped kitchen and vending machines on hand, the Development Centre provides for the developers’ needs when they often have to work after hours to meet deadlines. The Office Centre* The Office Centre is where executive management and administration staff works. The offices are pleasant and well equipped, relying on the technological infrastructure to make everything work. The boardroom is our pride, a real show case. This room is named after *Rob Katz, who was Executive Director of the first Infomet. Subsequently, he became the Managing Director of the first Microsoft office in South Africa. Technology Platform* Our Business Centre consists of a suite of e-services and e-applications which run on a powerful sophisticated parallel Itanium EPIC Computer , 24 gigabytes of RAM and 500 gigabytes of disk space. With Diginet and satellite we have a telecommunications bandwidth enabling us to connect our e-business portal to the world. Our Offering Centres each has a separate network with file servers. These servers are behind separate firewalls to ensure that our systems are intruder and tamper proof. The network and the PABX System are fully integrated, and voice management software allows us to have sophisticated collaboration mechanisms. Our office software for mail and messaging, document and work flow management, VOIP and collaboration, gives us the capability to operate in a well structured and organized manner whilst being able to interact in manners never done before with our clients. The network is secure. The routers run sophisticated firewalls; keeps the system spam free; protects our data from unwanted intrusions; and are linked to our physical access control system to monitor and prevent intrusion. All our desktops are physically secured inside the desks in our own a patented casing to prevent loss through theft. Our physical network is CAT-6 compliant which ensures we can handle high speed data transfers internally and encrypted fibre optical cabling between floors ensures that our network is inaccessible to outsiders. Infomet can be contacted on (011) 523-9400.