In a boost for South African business presence abroad, the India arm of leading tech company Jendamark Automation has announced a landmark agreement with Indian technology giant Tech Mahindra.
Jendamark, which also has a presence in Germany and the US, signed a memorandum of understanding with the company at the India-South Africa Business Conclave in New Delhi in December.
The agreement will see Tech Mahindra become a global partner for Jendamark’s Odin Manufacturing technologies — a range of digital solutions designed to improve productivity and operational efficiencies for small to large businesses.
The two companies will explore mutually productive commercial opportunities and look to collaborate on developing, implementing and supporting enterprise class solutions for identified customers across the globe.
Jendamark’s director of innovations in SA, Yanesh Naidoo, said the company was proud that a successful global organisation such as Tech Mahindra had chosen to partner with their Odin suite of products.
“It’s a massive opportunity for Jendamark and Odin to gain access to a global market that is in need of human-centric productivity solutions in factories around the world,” Naidoo said.
Jendamark India chief executive Himanshu Jadhav said the partnership would take Jendamark’s digital technologies to the next level.
“We are proud to have created our Odin software solutions in the developing economies of India and SA.
“And now we are very happy to partner with Tech Mahindra which, with its vast network, will take it to the developed economies and the rest of the world.
“Its expertise in leveraging business and enterprise solutions gives us the opportunity to expand beyond our horizons and to grow in different business sectors, bringing many benefits to both companies and our customers.”
Tech Mahindra’s global head of automotive consulting and solutions, Sachin Kulkarni, said the partnership with Jendamark was a strategic one.
“At Tech Mahindra, we are focused very heavily on the factory of the future as a capability across the manufacturing sector.
“We are going to scale at speed using Jendamark’s Odin Manufacturing suite.”
For Jendamark, this year marked 10 years of doing business in India.
Also represented at the conclave session on opportunities within the digital economy was Jendamark’s Odin Education division, which has developed a full-stack ed-tech solution to bridge the digital divide for underprivileged schools in both countries.
Odin Education head Ajit Gopalakrishnan said tech-enabled learning and skills development were critical to the future of both, especially in building a knowledge-based economy.
“We have two shared challenges as countries.
“First, there is no shortage of talent in underprivileged schools but it is squandered because of lack of access to resources, networks and support,” he said.
“Second, we have a relevance problem. Our education systems are disconnected from the evolving needs of industry, so we need to rethink these systems.
“And in these shared challenges lies the opportunity to collaborate and innovate.”
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