‘CWG installs 35% of ATMs in Nigeria’

About 30 per cent of the Automated Teller Machines’ (ATMs) transaction in Nigeria pass through Computer Warehouse Group’s Wincor-Nixdorf ATMs while about 35 per cent of ATMs installed in Nigeria are supplied and supported by CWG, the Chief Executive Officer of CWG Plc, Mr. Austin Okere, has said. Okere disclosed this while providing information on the operations of his company to the Information Officer of Standard Bank, PBB Rest of Africa, Mr. Klaas Kruger and his team, who visited the IT company’s headquarters in Lagos recently. The visit was aimed at strategic discussion on technology solutions that CWG Plc offers and the value it can add to the bank’s operation. In his presentation, Okere used the key ring concept to explain CWG’s solutions offering, saying that the concept denotes the company’s ability to handhold an institution’s entire Information Technology needs end-toend to assure the customer of a single responsibility partner across the IT solution stack and thereby significantly minimising risk. According to Okere, CWG Plc has world-class IT facilities and capabilities as well as strong relationships with global technology brands and esteemed clientele spanning over two decades. He added that the company was poised to replicate the unique value Pan-African wide to meet the growing requirements of her global customers, who want a consistent service level across their African operations. “These three factors – facility, capability and relationship – have given us an edge in providing IT services and support in various industries in our countries of operation, especially telecom, oil & gas and banking. “About 50 per cent of mobile calls in Nigeria are routed through enterprise servers and storage managed and supported by us while 40 per cent of Telecoms Information Systems Managed Services are also provided by CWG. “Same applies to the banking industry, about 30 per cent of Automated Teller Machines’ (ATMs) transaction pass through CWG’s Wincor-Nixdorf ATMs while about 35 per cent of ATMs installed base in Nigeria are supplied and supported by CWG,” Okere said. Similarly, the Chief Technology Officer of CWG Plc, Mr. James Agada, stated that 60 per cent of banking transactions in Nigeria happen on the company’s Finacle Core Banking system, installed in 10 of the 21 Nigerian banks. He also said that about 20 per cent of bank branch transactions on data links were carried out through CWG’s Network Infrastructure. “CWG Plc and her partner, Infosys, have also extended the Finacle Core Banking System to other African countries where we have physical presence, with CWG’s certified technical staff handling both the implementation and support,” he noted.