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After the official welcome, a beautiful, sustainable-themed fashion show ensued, followed by the official launch of the South African Research Management System (SARMS), which was introduced as the first single National Research Management System for South African Universities, National Research Institutions and the Private Sector, as well as the future of research management at DUT.
DUT Chief Information Officer, Dr Progress Mtshali, DUT Senior Procurement Officer, Nirupa Kemraj and Nokuthula Ndlovu, Managing Director of Projectized Management, formed part of the panel that facilitated the launch.
Projectized Management is an IT Consulting and Software Solutions company providing solutions to the private and public sector. The company also has a range of products developed in-house, together with its partners. One of these products is SARMS (South African Research Management System), a tool designed to elevate the status of research by making research and researchers in the country more visible by serving as a single national repository for all research related activities across all institutions engaged in research in South Africa.
Ms Ndlovu expressed her excitement to be launching the South African Research Management System (SARMS) for their first pioneers, DUT, which was aligned with ENVISION2030. She then explained that South African trained developers were used and in this way, they were also transferring skills to South Africa.“SARMS is completely paperless and fully electronic,” she stressed.
She thanked the leadership team at DUT and applauded the university for leading by example in supporting African women, black-owned, technology companies.
“I believe that KwaZulu-Natal can be the next Silicon Valley. Whenever there are problems, technology is an enabler.Technology
Pictured: DUT Chief Information Officer, Dr Progress Mtshali, Nokuthula Ndlovu, Managing Director of Projectized Management, and DUT Senior Procurement Officer, Nirupa Kemraj formed part of the panel that facilitated the launch.
can bring solutions. We’ve experienced COVID, we’ve experienced floods, we’ve experienced looting and one of the ways that we are going to resuscitate our economy in KZN, is through technology and people, they will be the enablers for us to achieve this.We partner with academia, we partner with business, we partner with the public sector and we partner with private sector,” said Ms Ndlovu.
DUT Chief Information Officer Dr Progress Mtshali added to the conversation, speaking on the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform at DUT, saying one of the perspectives of DUT’s ENVISION2030 is having green ecosystems to improve the efficiency of resource utilisation and decrease environmental risk. “What we have said is that at the hub of everything that we do at DUT is going to be the ERP system so that everything needs to be connected. And then we will have proper access control so that anybody anywhere can actually have access to whatever information that they actually have, SARMS is going to make a very big dent around reducing paper,” he said.
He also spoke on the fact that SARMS is cloud based and that DUT DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
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