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Biographies
Carma has assembled an outstanding management team with extensive
experience in the software industry.
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President &
Chief
Technology Officer
Piers Hayes
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Vice President
Sales &
Marketing
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Curriculum Management
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Manufacturing,
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IT Outsourcing
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About
CARMA
A bit more CARMA history
Carma Software Incorporated,
trading as CARMASOFT, is a dynamic, young software company with an exciting
new product.
For 20 years, it operated in Cape Town, South Africa as Diamond
Systems, a local supplier of customized software products. Diamond’s
key area of product expertise is software and hardware security
and integration. The Carmasoft security product evolved over
several
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years
from numerous security consulting projects for the Southern
African businesses.
Carmasoft was formed in 2003 to introduce Carma into the North American
market. The head office is now located in Vancouver on Canada’s
beautiful west coast.
Carmasoft targets mid-range companies and government agencies and
departments. Typically, these potential clients have annual
sales of $50 M to $2 B, and/or 50 |
to 2,000 employees. Larger companies will be targeted once Carmasoft
has the resources in place to undertake large-scale deployments
of Carma. While Carma can benefit virtually any company operating
multiple servers and applications, its primary market consists
of established companies such as utilities, financial institutions
and government departments operating legacy systems. |
Future
Direction
Carma is currently
available for all types of Unix and Linux operating platforms. This
includes most legacy systems, which typically have a Unix base.
By 2004, it will be expanded to include all versions of Windows
operating systems. Another planned addition to Carma is e-commerce
functionality, which will allow e-commerce portals and linked back-end
databases to be fully integrated under the Carma umbrella. This
will increase the level of security for customers, and make it easier
for network administrators to monitor the functioning of e-commerce
sites.
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Rudolf
(Rudi) Rieger
President &
Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Rieger manages product development at Carmasoft. As owner of Diamond
Computer Systems PTY Ltd., he has developed Carma over the past 20
years, and is a specialist in computer security for Unix systems.
Mr. Rieger has over 30 years of experience in developing and implementing
computer systems in Europe and Africa. Earlier in his career, he managed
major software design and integration projects for Swissair and Swiss
Credit Bank in Zurich. In 1976 he moved to South Africa to take up
a post at NCR as the Regional Manager of IT Development, where he
headed up both domestic and international projects, reporting directly
to NCR HQ in Ohio. He has consulted on numerous corporate security
projects in Africa, including a recently completed project for the
Namibian Ministry of Basic Education. |
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Piers Hayes
Vice President
Sales & Marketing

Mr. Hayes leads the sales department at Carmasoft. He has over 30 years of
experience in the marketing and sales of Information Technology Systems.
As director of Productivity Software, South Africa, he brought to
market the ADR (Applied Data Research) range of system & security
software products for IBM mainframes, and secured a 100% market penetration
in a little over two years. Following an invitation to join the board
of Advance Promotions, a national distributor of leading brand-name
IT products, he was instrumental in taking the company through an
IPO on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and increasing revenues 15
fold through a three-year period to US$53 M. In Canada, Mr. Hayes
managed large accounts for GE Capital Technology Services, a major
software and hardware distributor, and was a founding partner of Spider
Cache, an internet services firm. Mr. Hayes has a marketing degree
from IMM, Johannesburg, South Africa. |
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Curriculum
Management & Assessment
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High-level security systems introduced for examination certificates |
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Manufacturing,
Marketing & Distribution
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I&J, South Africa’s leading
frozen food company is involved in the manufacture, marketing and
distribution of products.
Benefits:
| overall
application and task control |
application,
utility, script, command, etc. |
| improved
login security |
user
permission check between UNIX login and CARMA user entry (login
name) |
| Improving
and uniting of UNIX scripts |
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| help
desk support |
caller
date/time logging |
| inter
computer communications |
audit
and time recording |
| print-out
allocation and handling |
spooling
& overwrite options |
| legacy
system operations |
drastically
reduced operator training in time and cost, online documentation,
processing streamlined and simplified, on-line like operation,
action journal, total application control (progress-, operator-,
user-, date- & time- recording), cost center allocation |
| user
permission reporting |
who can
do what, which task can be accessed by whom |
| user
password |
to double
up platform and/or task access by introducing a additional
password, where applicable |
| user
working environments |
numerous
reporting facilities on user
- department
- cost
center
- workstation
definition
- tty’s
allocated
- always
updated user telephone list
- and
many more
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| exception
access reporting |
illegal
attempts, time-out, etc |
| user
lock, time-out |
discontinuation
of working session after “inactive” time-set/user elapsed |
| immediate
“Hot-Key” access |
direct
access from current CARMA position to any other platform or
to any task required |
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IT
Outsourcing Services
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As an Outsourcing Organization servicing medium sized companies for
their technology requirements, we cover applications including Credit
Collection, General Accounting (Accounts Receivable, Payable, Inventory
, Billing, General Ledger) and Medical Accounting / Administration.
Our Organization
caters for on-line, batch reporting and “ad hoc” enquiry
across a broad customer base, and as such security is a critical
success factor to both our customers and PNL’s operation.
The host system
for the above mentioned applications is an Intel UNIX server under
VT100 and other emulation.
After careful
market evaluation we made the decision to install Computer Access
Reporting, Management & Administration (CARMA), and retain the
consulting and support services as offered by Diamond Computer Software
Systems (Pty)Ltd. This has had the effect of not only securing each
of our customers by creating a “water tight” partition
in which they can function knowing that each and every transaction
is tracked and date/time stamped, but also to create a precisely
controlled bureau environment.
Not only do
our clients enjoy a more secure environment than they would with
an in- house installation, our Bureau operates with a security that
has hither to been unavailable.
Unexpected benefits
from the CARMA installation have been the automated billing and
costing reconciliation facilities, so that our Customer billing
and internal charge back functions have been largely automated.
Further, because
of the automation of our system procedures, we have made substantial
reductions to our training costs, and therefore reduced the need
for expensive UNIX staff. Our bureau administration and data handing
department operates successfully with little training of the operating
system and/or applications.
In conclusion,
we would highly recommend CARMA to any environment that has concerns
for security, or needs to reduce it’s operating costs.
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Meat
Packing
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A wholesale butchery, manufacturers and distributors of continental
meat products. |
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Production
Control
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Diesel Injection and Turbocharger Services. |
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