Task Systems Bags NetApp Gold Award, to Improve Speed & Accuracy in Businesses

Stanley Okpalaeke, managing director, Task Systems Limited has said that the challenge of providing the right technology to businesses to improve their decision making processes, is source of pressure for ICT solutions providers, who automatically take the blame or credit for the failure or success of their customers’ businesses.

This is recognition of the fact that one of the most fundamental truths of the 21st Century, is that technology reduces the chances of failure in business by more than fifty percent.

According to Okpalaeke, expectations from businesses that have made huge investments in technology are not only high, they are sky high.

He stated this while receiving a Gold Partnership plaque from NetApp, world leaders in storage and management solutions.

The Task Systems boss said that the need for technology is so critical because the space of time within which decisions must be made by business leaders is shrinking by the day as global competition continues to get more aggressive; adding that entrepreneurs and business managers must decide in split seconds what options are best for their enterprises at any given time.

Commenting on the award, Okpalaeke, said that the Gold Partnership Award was in recognition of the deepening technical competence of Task Systems, in helping organizations store, manage, protect, and retain one of their most precious assets, their data.

This Gold Partnership means that companies can depend on the partnership between Task Systems and NetApp to enhance their competitiveness by improved access to information, for better decision making.

He said that the Gold Partnership also meant that the service oriented marketing strategies adopted by Task Systems’ management were bearing fruit in line with the vision of the founding fathers of the company, to deliver quality ICT solutions to organizations within Nigeria and the sub-saharan region. 

“We are investing more in our human capital and with this attainment of Gold partnership with NetApp, we are poised to offer even better pricing to our growing customer base” said Okpaleke.

Aware that technology is one of the main differentiating factors between businesses, Task Systems entered into a partnership with NetApp in 2010 to expand its solution offerings to its customers.

Before this partnership, Task had remained the foremost ICT solutions provider in the oil and gas sector; but with this partnership, Task is consolidating its position in this sector to the delight of its customers.

This consolidation has also seen Task Systems increasingly becoming a key player in the banking and finance, telecommunications and government sectors.

The partnership with Task was also in line with NetApp’s tradition of forming strategic partnerships with industry leading solution providers and resellers to deliver industry-leading solutions that are tailored to the unique requirements of each customer.

This NetApp culture allows creative, inventive, and dedicated people to work together as one team for creating products and services that exceed customer expectations. NetApp, in 1992, built the first networked storage appliance, making shared storage an affordable reality.

Over the years NetApp helped their customers to overcome the challenges of tape with solutions that make disk-based back up affordable and reliable.

The partnership with Task has helped customers to make revenue faster than ever as well as anticipate and adapt to market changes faster than their competitors.

Task Systems Limited registered in 1987 and has been at the forefront of ICT solutions in Nigeria, with major contracts in most of the first 20 multinationals in the oil, gas, banking, telecom and manufacturing sectors in the last 17 years. (including Total, Shell, Chevron, and the NLGN).

Task has a partnership with all the credible Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) including NetApp, HP, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, APC-Schneider, Dell, and Zinox. Task has won several local and international Awards for excellence in major ICT implementations and projects.