News & Press

Posted on 9/14/2011 4:49:26 PM
Blue Tree appointed as an Advanced IBM Business Partner in Mozambique

IBM has approved Blue Tree as an advanced business partner in Mozambique.

This is exciting news for Blue Tree as it is in line with the strategic growth initiative in Africa and provides a formal footprint reaching into other parts of the continent.

Mike Backeberg - CEO

Posted on 8/17/2011 3:49:17 PM
Blue Tree Mozambique

Blue Tree has completed various projects in Africa in the last few years including Mauritius, Nigeria and Botswana.  As the opportunity has emerged, we have established a permanent foothold outside of South Africa and have opened an office in Mozambique.  The offices are based in Maputo.

This provides Blue Tree with an opportunity to take world-class technology, skills and governance to a new emerging market.

- Mike Backeberg

Posted on 7/28/2010 12:13:27 PM
Tivoli License Metric Tool

Blue Tree initiated research and development into the management, deployment and configuration of the IBM Tivoli License Metric Tool.  This process involved running laboratories internal to the company and working in the IBM AIC with IBM specialists.

The objective is to establish core competence in the use of this tool. 

This project has successfully been completed and we are currently underway with our first live client installation with the tool.

"I am happy that this process is finally underway.  After a large investment in this skill and our understanding that we are currently the only business partner in South Africa to hold this key knowledge, it has definitely provided us with an additional channel for the company.  This product and the full Tivoli license and asset management tool will become a full supported product set for Blue Tree before the end of 2010.  This coupled with our recent appointment as a WebSphere Advanced Business Partner, now means that Blue Tree is well placed to become the market leader in IBM software technologies in the future."

- Mike Backeberg - CEO

Posted on 7/28/2010 12:07:22 PM
Blue Tree wiki launched Blue Tree has extended our web site to include a wiki page.  This allows for the distribution of information, technical, product and consulting related items to our client base and to provide more detail about specific research areas in which Blue Tree is currently active. - Mike Backeberg - CEO

Posted on 7/14/2010 2:44:50 PM
Blue Tree appointed As WebSphere Vendor.

With the new criteria that IBM has put in place for distribution of software, achieving business partner recognition in new software groups now reflects core technical competence of a business partner.  Blue Tree has attained this and is now an authorized Lotus and WebSphere business partner.

"We are proud to have achieved this status and will continue to make investments in the development of our WebSphere capability and capacity going forward."  - Mike Backeberg - Chief Executive

Posted on 11/10/2009 10:25:21 AM
New web site

Blue Tree is pleased to have successfully complete the first phase of the Blue Tree web site revamp.

"This web site is key to our future promotion of our business.  The first phase is complete which focuses on our rebranding.  In the future we will have more interactive content for our clients and staff. " - Mike Backeberg - Chief Executive

Posted on 8/6/2009 1:33:54 PM
SPCA Annual Charity Staff Drive

Blue Tree staff and friends have completed the annual SPCA charity drive.  200 Kgs of dog food (enough for 1 month), 52 Kgs of cat food (enough for 3 months) and various other items (food bowls, blankets, etc.) were delivered to the Roodepoort SPCA.

This initiative was started by staff a few years ago and we are going to expand this in the future.

"It is great to see staff and clients contributing to the scheme." - Chris Jacobs - Operations Manager

Posted on 9/8/2008 1:36:57 PM
Call Centre Launched

Blue Tree has launched the first version of the Blue Tree call centre technology.

Key to the technology is open source and open standards that have been applied. The application allows outbound call centres to manage key internal processes. The work on version 2 has already begun and we are focusing on better integration into the Linux platform, plus the development of our own dialler and the integration for our clients third party needs.

"We expect version 2 to be available in the middle of 2009." - Ellen van der Kuil - Lead Developer and Technology Owner