type public company jse bcx industry information and communications technology founded 1979 headquarters johannesburg south africa area served south africa kenya mozambique namibia nigeria tanzania zambia united kingdom and middle east key people isaac mophatlane benjamin mophatlane revenue r5 .83 billion fy 2012 1 number of employees just over 7000 2013 2 website www.bcx.co.za business connexion group business connexion is a south african based information and communications technology ict company . 3 business connexion is also listed on the johannesburg stock exchange jse the ict group has a wide footprint with operations in africa europe and the middle east . in africa business connexion expands to kenya mozambique namibia nigeria zambia and tanzania . the group also has offices in the united kingdom as well as the middle east . business connexion has the largest data centre capacity in southern africa . 4 contents 1 history 2 acquisitions 3 partners 4 references history edit business connexion s history dates back to 1979 through the formation of persetel proprietary limited . this company merged with q data limited to form the persetel q data holdings group of companies in 1997 . it was then that persetel q data holdings made a number of european networking acquisitions and subsequently changed its name to comparex holdings in november 1998 . 5 in december 2003 comparex announced its intention to merge with business connection and in 2004 the largest information technology black economic empowerment deal occurred when comparex merged with business connection . 6 the new combined entity s annual revenue were in excess of r3 billion at the time . 5 founded in 1996 by present ceo benjamin mophatlane and his twin brother isaac business connection merged with seattle solutions in 2001 . 7 this merged entity was renamed business connexion proprietary limited the holdings company was renamed business connexion group limited and the company has traded since then under the current share code of bcx . business connexion was separately listed on 28 may 2004 . 5 acquisitions edit ucs solutions business connexion acquired the ucs group ucs group limited where it now has presence in the retails space . 8 ucs which is now a division of business connexion provides services in the retail value chain as well as traditional break fix end user device support to other market sectors . the acquisition has made business connexion a dominant player in the south african retail vertical holding 28 % of the retail it services market share . ucs technology services ucs technology services is a service provider to retailers across the south african region . the company provides solutions for both large multi store multi country retail environments as well as for small and medium sized retail operations . ceb maintenance initially founded in 1987 ceb maintenance africa proprietary limited offers information technology services . in may 2011 the company started operating as a subsidiary of business connexion group limited . accsys the accsys business currently forms part of business connexion s innovation division and is an award winning south african software company specialising in people management solutions . with more than 2000 companies on its solutions over 14 million payslips per year are initiated by accsys systems . the solutions are developed in south africa with particular emphasis on south african workplace conditions . this has also been broadened to encompass countries throughout africa . canoa group business connexions acquisition of canoa group intends to fulfil its vision to simplify the information and communications technology workspace for its clients . 9 the managed print solutions business unit joint venture was introduced in 2010 . the canoa group has exclusive distribution rights for canon copy print and imaging solutions in southern africa . intergr8 it business connexion through its subsidiary ucs solutions acquired integr8 it . 10 the acquisition was made formal on 5 november 2012 . the company provides annuity based infrastructure management and managed services to the mid market corporate in south africa and africa . intergr8 it also owns the only african based nerve centre a digital hub of people technology and process that regulates monitors and maintains the technology infrastructure for corporations . partners edit business connexion headed by isaac mophatlane the brother of the late benjamin mophatlane currently has the following business partners 11 citrix cisco emc frost & sullivan hp ibm mendix microsoft oracle project portfolio office vmware and virtualisation sap symantec parallels fortinet references edit business connexion s profit shoots up business connexion last quarterly update for 2012 sharedata business connexion annual report 2010 it news africa business connexion sets up shop in kenya a b c annual report 2010 pdf . business connexion . retrieved 2 november 2011 . financial mail it sector s first major empowerment deal under way 1 itweb benjamin mophatlane ceo business connexion business connexion buys up ucs units business connexion now has a controlling stake in canoa business connexion acquires integr8 it in r126 million deal 2 business connexion website our business partners page retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title business connexion group & oldid 733962732 categories companies based in johannesburgsouth african brandshidden categories engvarb from july 2016use dmy dates from july 2016pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersarticles created via the article wizard navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links 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