BY EMEKA AGINAM

An innovative global ICT solutions provider, WaveTek Nigeria Limited, has formally announced its entry into the Nigerian ICT market promising a new oscillation in the way ICT solutions are delivered to businesses in the country.

The official launch follows the unveiling of the company’s logo and introduction of the management team in a press conference held last week in Lagos.

Speaking to IT Journalists during the event, the Managing Director and Chief Executive of the company, Ken Spann, noted that . WaveTek was inspired by the need to fill a gap in the market.

Spann, who had worked in Microsoft contributing to the roll-out of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Program and worked on the Windows Server Product Development Team with a successful roll-out of Windows Server 2008 said that through a partnership venture with Microsoft, WaveTek Nigeria Limited is ready to add value to core areas of Application Integration and IT Infrastructure; Cloud and Hosting Services; Education and Bandwidth and Last Mile Connectivity.

He said that the use of new multimedia technologies and the Internet in learning were seen as a means to improve accessibility, efficiency and quality of learning by facilitating access to resources and services as well as remote exchanges and collaboration.

He said that WaveTek has opened discussion with some state governments to bring the infrastructure to local schools.

Spann who is bringing his wealth of experience to bear on ICT application in said, “WaveTek was established out of the need to fill a gap in the market.

“I am confident there is room in the marketplace for WaveTek to operate owing to our differentiating strategy which includes international scale, product knowledge, pricing strategy, intelligent insight, market research, knack for success, among others. “WaveTek has rich content to bring to Education, Government at all levels, and the Business segments of Nigeria”. Spann added

Explaining further on the company’s many offerings, Mr. Dapo Onawole, who doubles as the chief information officer and chief software architect said, “With our carefully selected product/ service delivery structure, WaveTek is poised to provide high performance, secure and managed SQL Database and Business Intelligence Solutions; Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software; Lync and Unified Communications Solutions; SharePoint Server and Collaboration Solutions.

“Others are Virtualizatin Solutions; Hosting Solutions; Cloud Services; Microsoft IT Academy, E-content, And E-administration.” Nigeria’s IT market as a way to bring reduce burdens of excessive charges customers currently witness.

“WaveTek’s value proposition is to provide completely bundled solutions designed to our customer’s requirements. We seamlessly deliver content by creating hosted as well as resolving many of the “Last Mile Challenges by “bringing the last mile closer”.

Over the coming months WaveTek will be a leader in providing World Class Solutions, whether in the Cloud like Office 365 or on high speed “Virtual Fiber Networks, “ noted Nehita.