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We engineer the infrastructure organisations run on, automate the decisions that move through it, and hold ourselves to a standard you can inspect — never one you must take on trust.

ISO 9001:2015Certified ISO/IEC 27001Aligned ISO 15489Aligned Available onMicrosoft Marketplace
Smart DMS live on the Microsoft commercial marketplace ISO 9001:2015 certified · externally audited ISO/IEC 27001 information security management, in live operation Eight provinces · one delivery standard Level 1 B-BBEE · 100% Black woman-owned Estates monitored around the clock, answerable to SLA ITIL 4 & COBIT 2019 · governance beneath every service KBS Academy · training that ends in a livelihood
2015
Incorporated — our founding client, a metropolitan municipality, remains one today
72yrs
Combined technical experience resident within the engineering team
8
Provinces in which we maintain an operational presence
Level 1
B-BBEE contributor — 100% Black woman-owned, 135% procurement recognition
Strategic intent

Organisations rarely procure transformation first.
They procure a network that performs.

Our positioning ladder charts the path we walk beside a client. Each rung earns the right to the next — and each stands as a complete engagement in its own right.

01

Backbone

Structured cabling, LAN and WAN, wireless, datacentre and voice.

02

Visibility

Monitoring, service desk, SLA dashboards and asset records.

03

Assurance

Cybersecurity, governance, continuity and compliance.

04

Transformation

Workflow automation, Smart DMS, analytics and digital services.

Where most clients commenceWhere the value compounds
What we do

Six capability domains. One governed delivery system.

One project management office. One externally certified quality system. One engineering pool. Procure a single domain or the entire stack — the governance around it never changes.

01

Network & IT infrastructure

Design, construct, certify and document the connectivity backbone — cabling, switching, wireless, datacentre and VoIP.

Cat6/6A & fibre · Core and access switching · Wireless design · VoIP
02

Workflow automation

Convert paper-bound organisational processes into governed digital workflows on the Microsoft Power Platform.

Smart DMS · Power Automate · Records digitisation · Analytics
03

ICT managed services

Keep the estate in health, in visibility and answerable to a service level agreement.

SolarWinds · ManageEngine · Service desk · Backup & recovery
04

Cybersecurity & governance

Protect the estate, and demonstrate that it is protected — with evidence an auditor accepts.

Firewall alignment · NAC · Patch posture · POPIA
05

Hardware & procurement

Source the correct equipment, under warranty, through accredited channel partners.

End-user computing · Servers & storage · Licensing · Lifecycle
06

Project management & PMO

Govern scope, risk, cost and acceptance from initiation through to formal close-out.

PRINCE2-aligned · Site assessment gates · Change control
Digital transformation

Momentum is engineered, not announced.

Transformation programmes falter where the foundation is unexamined. We establish the connectivity, instrument it, secure it, and only then automate upon it — so that each advance rests upon something demonstrably sound.

Connectivity
A backbone certified, documented and surrendered on acceptance.
Automation
Decisions routed on delegation, evidenced at every step.
Assurance
Posture, patch currency and access conformance reported.
Compounding value
Each engagement engineered to earn the next.
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Smart DMS

Enterprise approvals, governed end to end.

Smart DMS is our own product — already built, already published on the Microsoft commercial marketplace, already proven in service. Clients configure a live platform rather than fund a development experiment.

Available onMicrosoft Marketplace
No incremental vendor overhead
Built natively on the Power Platform inside your existing Microsoft 365 tenant — nothing standalone to license, host or administer.
Immutable audit trail
Every action time-stamped, attributed to a named user and retained. Records are superseded, never edited.
A platform that extends
The same instance governs procurement approvals, contract workflows, HR requests and policy sign-off.
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smart-dms · approval stream
Submission capturedSUB-2026-00412 · case number issued Received
Routed on delegation rulesDirectorate → Chief Director Verified
Reviewed and commentedAttributed to a named principal In review
Digital signature appliedWithin delegation threshold Pending
Archived with evidence packISO 15489-aligned retention Pending

e-Submission

Multi-level submission chains with authentication at each level, amendment control and executive routing.

e-Memo

Memorandum capture, rules-based routing, commentary, approval and digital signature.

e-Leave

Leave lifecycles with balance validation, supervisory and HR review, payroll-ready tracking.

Records

Central repository with classification, ISO 15489-aligned retention, search and audit history.

Invoice & payment tracking

Every invoice traced from capture to payment — attributed at each step, immutable after the fact.

e-Recruitment

Requisition to offer on delegation rules, with an audit trail that withstands a selection dispute.

Time & attendance

Capture, exceptions and sign-off feeding payroll-ready records on the same case model.

Bid & quote management

Tender and quotation lifecycles governed gate by gate — evidenced, thresholded, immutable once awarded.

Every module rides one governance spine — delegation routing, immutable audit, ISO 15489 retention — with service delivery aligned to ITIL 4 and COBIT 2019.

How we execute

Six stages. Nothing advances without proof.

Our six-stage methodology lives inside the ISO 9001:2015 quality system. Work advances only when the preceding stage is evidenced — never on assurance alone.

1

Assess

Survey, topology and risk. Countersigned before mobilisation.

2

Design

BoQ, IP and VLAN plan, wireless layout and schedule.

3

Build

Cable, configure, label and commission to standard.

4

Certify

Fluke certification, failover testing and user acceptance.

5

Hand over

As-builts, asset registers and a signed acceptance certificate.

6

Operate

Monitoring, support and monthly SLA reporting.

The evidence

Completed projects — delivered, certified, handed over.

Each entry below is a concluded engagement. Several commenced as a single-site brief and matured into multi-site provincial rollouts or continuing managed services.

National departmentMineral & petroleum resources
Network monitoring implementation with an infrastructure upgrade and core switch reconfiguration.
MonitoringSwitching
Provincial departmentSocial development
LAN installation and commissioning across seven sites.
LANMulti-site
Provincial departmentHealth
LAN installation with fibre, switch configuration and network remediation across district facilities.
LANFibre
Provincial departmentHealth
Multi-site monitoring implementation and network support across seven health facilities.
MonitoringMulti-site
Metropolitan municipalityLocal government
Network monitoring implementation and IT service desk solution.
MonitoringService desk
Local municipalityLocal government
Municipal network installation with switch configuration and integrated IP telephony.
LANVoIP
Trusted by our customers
Dept. of Mineral & Petroleum Resources Eastern Cape Dept. of Health Buffalo City Metro Northern Cape Dept. of Health Amatola Water PetroSA Eskom Holdings SOC SAHPRA Financial Intelligence Centre PPECB Onderstepoort Biological Products Thembelihle Local Municipality Limpopo Dept. of Agriculture Johannesburg City Parks & Zoo

Accountability carries a name here, never a shared inbox.

Six principals hold the standard — from bid to build to acceptance.

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Technology, carrier and channel partnerships
Microsoft Azure Marketplace Molex HPE HP Dell Lenovo Cisco Huawei Fortinet Kaspersky Veeam SolarWinds ManageEngine AWS BCX Vodacom MTN Business Telkom Axiz Tarsus Distribution Pinnacle LinkQage Mustek JSE
KBS Academy

Potential, unlocked into livelihoods.

KBS Academy exists to confront unemployment with training that ends in real work. We prepare young South Africans for technical careers — on live sites, under supervision — and release that capability into the economy: some of it into our own teams, most of it into the country that needs it.

Cloud administrationPathway Software developmentPathway End user computingPathway
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LearnerLivelihood

Name the outcome. We will name exactly what it takes.

Whether the difficulty is an estate you cannot observe, an approval nobody can trace, or an audit finding you would prefer not to repeat — an initial conversation carries no obligation and almost always brings clarity.