It’s incredible how fast this year has gone by! It’s already the holiday season, and soon to be 2015! It’s been an awesome year, and one in which our team ‘paid it forward’ quite significantly. Amongst the annual CANSA Shavathon and Blood Drives, donating to the East Coast Radio Toy Story initiative, and supporting Afrika Tikkun, a […]

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“The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.” Gordon B. Hinckley On Friday, […]

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Sage Alchemex has just moved offices and is currently running a fun awareness campaign within the Sage Group in South Africa, where our Head Office resides. It occurred to me that many people do not know the story of Sage Alchemex or Sage Intelligence, our Excel-based reporting software. It has been a tremendous success story […]

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Having being acquired by Sage South Africa two years ago, we are happy to announce that we moved into the Sage Technology Park in Mount Edgecombe, Durban, South Africa this week. The move presents the opportunity to forge stronger relationships with our Sage counterparts and boy did they welcome us warmly! Just a little about […]

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In 2012,  Chips Computing Zimbabwe (Africa) and Trew Solutions (South Africa) were awarded as the Top Sage Evolution Business Intelligence Centre Reseller in Africa and the Top Sage Evolution Business Intelligence Centre Reseller in South Africa, respectively, at the Sage Evolution International Business Partner Conference. They did it again this year; being selected as winners, once again, […]

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On Friday, March 1st, the Sage Alchemex team in Durban, South Africa, participated in the national Shavathon on behalf of the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA Shavathon).  This was our second year participating, and once again we had great fun for a good cause. “CANSA Shavathon is one of South Africa’s best-loved events in […]

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It is no secret that small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are vital to the lifeblood of our economy, contributing about half of South Africa’s GDP and employing 60% of its labour force. In some developed countries, the SME sector contributes up to 90% of a country’s GDP, but according to a recent Gallup world […]

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Alchemex was founded in November 2001 in Durban, South Africa, with the vision to provide practical solutions for small and medium sized companies around the world to assist them with the common frustrations associated with getting good information out of their ERP/Accounting systems. Since inception it has always been our goal to partner with leading […]

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  In the past few weeks I have been watching some of my colleagues, at all levels, in a bit of frenzy over the Sage brand changes. It has been quite eventful, and will be so seemingly until December this year. With Sage officially acquiring Alchemex in October last year, it means that Alchemex is […]

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There are many associations to CSI even the extreme being Criminal Scene Investigation. What I am however referring to is the CSI which gives back to ones community and or those in need. The “giving” aspect which makes up a majority of CSI can be interpreted in two different ways: Giving of commodities i.e. Food, […]

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