SITA 2003/2004 Annual Report Results Presentation

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SITA 2003/2004 Annual Report Results
Presentation CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
REPORT Thursday, 30th September 2004
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Agenda
Introduction
Business Highlights
Operations
Regional performance
IFMS
Human Capital
Acknowledgements
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Introduction

• First Report as SITA CEO
• Significant degree of progress made
• Built on solid institutional foundation
• Founding Legislation (SITA Act No 88 of 1998,
  as amended in 2002)
• Continuous stakeholder consultations.
• Broad SITA Mandate
• Efficient and cost effective management of
  procurement services
• Certification of the quality of goods and
  services provided.
• Management of government transversal systems.
• Provide Professional services such as ICT
  training, Advisory Services.
• Research and Development, etc.
• Implemented a range of approved programmes in
  spite of a major
• restructuring initiative.
• Developed a three-year Strategic Plan, approved
  by the Board.

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Business Highlights

• Financial Performance
• Revenue up from R 1,9 billion to R 2,3 billion.
• Posted Profit before tax of R 51,7 million
• The 2004-2007 Strategic Plan and Turnaround
  Strategy
• Strategic Plan approved by the SITA Board
• Underpinned by the Turnaround Strategys six
  Strategic Imperatives
• Restructuring of ITAC
• Team of external professionals and officers
  from National Treasury set up to develop an
  appropriate ITAC Model to remedy ITAC
  shortcomings
• New Executive for Procurement subsequently
  appointed

• Master Systems Plan
• New product offering termed MSP in a box was
  developed by the Research and Development Unit.
• Aims to achieve a Government-wide
  standardisation of the IT architecture
  framework.

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Operations

• Hosting Services
• Increased Mainframe infrastructure to more than
  7 500 MIPS, OF WHICH 1 746 MIPS is available for
  Disaster Recovery.
• Foundation Software also upgraded to afford
  Government the latest functionality to exploit
  capabilities on offer.
• Printing capacity of the Bloemfontein Data
  Centre was increased from 900 to 3 300 images
  per minute.
• Availability figures of up to 99 are
  guaranteed on Transversal Systems.
• SITA consistently exceeded this norm and
  achieved 100 month-on-month availability. Thus,
  for instance
• More than 1,2 million public servants are paid on
  time every month.
• More than three million South Africans receive
  social grants monthly
• Service Providers to the State receive payments
  on time.

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Operations

• Networks
• Government Common Core Network went live on 20
  December 2002.
• Core infrastructure provides carrier grade
  technology used by the telecommunications
  industry.
• Supports multimedia traffic, integrating voice,
  video and data transmission capabilities within
  a single unified system.
• Batho Pele e-Government Gateway Project
• In conjunction with a number of stakeholders,
  critical tasks were completed to prepare the
  Gateway Project for the launch.
• Projects was subsequently successfully launched
  in early August 2004

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Regional Performance

• Increased Bandwidth
• Rural connectivity was improved through
  increases in bandwidth of a number of data
  lines.
• Management Information System rollout
• The phase 1 rollout of the Management
  Information System for social workers and
  social security applications was successfully
  launched.
• Development of MSPs
• Confirmed MSPs for Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and
  Gauteng Provincial Governments.
• CIPAL / SITA Partnerships
• In conjunction with CIPAL, SITA has implemented
  a Financial Application System for the Thabo
  Mofutsanyane District Municipality in July 2003.

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Research and Development

• MSP in a box
• Flowing from the development of the
  MSP-in-a-box toolkit, six pilot sites.
• Integrated Data Analysis
• A pilot was launched at the Department of
  Social Development, which revealed that an
  enormous amount of money has been lost through
  fraud and error.
• Tele-medicine
• Pilot done in collaboration with the Medical
  Research Council and the National Department of
  Health.
• Seeks to exploit cost-effective means of
  deploying tele- medicine country-wide.
• Open Source Software
• Project being done in collaboration with CSIR,
  CPSI and GITOC.
• Pilot sites in government departments being
  identified.

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The Integrated Financial Management system

• Phase 1 of the project started in February
  2003. Some of the key
• deliverables were
• The development of a detailed User
  Specification Requirement (URS). Completed.
• Finalisation of a Master Systems Plan to
  propose a technical solution. Completed.
• Development of a Project Prospectus.

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Human Capital

• Training and Development
• R 26,7 million was spent on staff development
  and training.
• In addition, the Leadership Development
  Programme (LDP) and the Management Development
  Programme (MDP) were launched in partnership
  with the Gordon Institute of Business,
• Employment Equity
• 63 of SITA employees are black whilst 38 of
  them are female. The target for females is 45
• Youth Internship Programme
• 300 youth interns were training in various ICT
  programmes.
• Over 100 of them have already been placed into
  positions in various government departments and
  SITA.
• Employee Well-being
• An HIV/AIDs Programme was launched on 1
  December 2003.

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Acknowledgements

• Minister of Public Service and Administration,
  Mrs Geraldine
• Fraser-Moleketi
• For her political support and guidance during
  such a testing time. Our thanks also go to Mr
  Alvin Rapea, former acting DG at DPSA, whose
  support we could always count on.
• Chairperson of the SITA Board of Directors
• For giving unwavering support to SITA
  management, whilst demanding high-level service
  delivery.
• We also acknowledge with thanks the
  constructively critical and supportive guidance
  from the Board and its committees
• Staff and Management
• My special tribute goes to staff and
  management. What success we have achieved to
  date would have been unthinkable without the
  support they gave and confidence in leadership

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