MERIT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION (PTY) LTD
Information Services in Midrand

MERIT TS specialises in providing IT Products and Services to Financial Institutions and Large Corporations. Experience and innovation has resulted in MERIT TS being acknowledged as a leader in providing Open-Systems-Architecture-Design, Implementation and Support Services to Banks and more specifically in the fields of storage, backup, high availability and disaster recovery technologies. Architecture Designs Services at MERIT TS take aspects like reliability, redundancy, scalability, performance, flexibility, interdependency and cost of systems into consideration. Implementation services include product comparison, benchmarking and pilot testing of proposed solutions. The collective knowledge of the employees and experience gained, from many years workplace implementation and ongoing support services have resulted in MERIT TS' own tried and tested system deployment methodology. This unique project approach has enabled MERIT TS to assist various Banks to build technology solutions with which they are able to consistently achieve their business- and compliancy objectives. At MERIT TS the emphasis is on value added services, together with a product agnostic approach, we design and implement best fit solutions as determined by the customer's specific requirements. MERIT TS has built a reputation for problem solving and project delivery and has established itself amongst the top ICT services companies for the Financial sector in South Africa. MERIT TS was founded in 2000 and is a privately owned Proprietary Limited Company with offices in Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa. We attribute our successes to the partnerships that we could build with customers. The emphasis at MERIT TS is on solving business critical problems as collective efforts. The MERIT TS management team has a professional association of more than ten years both in a business and in technical capacity. CEO Lex Pienaar is CEO of MERIT TS and has 30 years experience in the IT industry. Operational Directors DJ van den Berg is a senior architecture designer at a major Corporate and Investment Bank where MERIT TS is the design and implementation partner on a recently completed On Line High Availability Solution (OHAS). He has been involved with Real-time Market Data and Treasury systems for 12 years. DJ was amongst others the team leader responsible for dealing room IT Outsource Services at one of the largest banks in South Africa from 1996 to DJ is proficient with various operating systems (Unix and Intel), treasury systems (Front, Middle and Back Office), digital delivery systems, storage solutions, backup solutions and general office systems. Cliff Girodo has been involved with Information Technology for more than 25 years. His areas of expertise include High Availability Systems, Storage solutions including NAS and SAN. He has worked as a Technical Project Manager on projects which included the procurement and commissioning of Electronic Document Management Systems and the deployment of Financial Trading systems in large banks. Cliff is currently a Technical Project Manager at a major Corporate and Investment Bank where MERIT TS is the design and implementation partner to implement an On Line High Availability Solution (OHAS). After Telkom Adriaan was employed by TTD where he was involved in providing Dealing Room IT Outsource Services to a major Bank. He was later promoted to IT support manager and was seconded to another leading bank where he was responsible for maintaining the entire IT requirement on behalf of them. Adriaan is currently a Technical Project Manager at a major Corporate and Investment Bank where MERIT TS is the design and implementation partner to implement an On Line High Availability Solution (OHAS) with his specific responsibilities being centered on Intel NAS and VERITAS clustering solutions.