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Carma has assembled an outstanding management team with extensive experience in the software industry.

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         President &
         Chief Technology Officer
Piers Hayes  » click
         Vice President
         Sales & Marketing

 
Success Stories
Curriculum Management & Assessment
 
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Manufacturing, Marketing & Distribution  
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IT Outsourcing Services  
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Meat Packing  
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Production Control  
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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

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 -
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
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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