COMPANY HISTORY AND PROFILE
 Short historical perspective
Ernest Glad, a former university professor in Financial Management, started the business in Johannesburg in 1992 to cater for the growing needs among organizations for Activity-Based Costing solutions. During its first few years numerous assignments were undertaken for large complex businesses and the organization developed expertise in managing information in these environments. This lead to its development as a specialist Business Intelligence consultancy and today Cortell provides a variety of products and services in this arena.
A brief historic review:
- Cortell started the development of its own Activity-Based costing system, ValuMax in 1993.
- International expansion started in 1995 with Cortell acquiring international clients.
- Acquired TM1 as a product in 1996.
- In 1997, the scope of the company expanded in the field of Business Intelligence and as its client base grew, the Company began offering several new products and services in addition to its ABC services.
- The development of the CustoMax Customer Profitability solution started in 1998.
- The development of Transparent Shared Services solution started in 2001.
- Cortell Supply Chain Solutions, started during 2003, provides supply chain solutions.
Cortell Today
Today Cortell is a group of companies that supplies consulting, implementation and development services. It has several blue chip organizations as clients and it operates in a number of industries
The Company operates in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban, South Africa. It has a staff complement of approximately 35 full-time staff members made up of Chartered Accountants, IT specialists and Engineers. It has several international alliances with software and other consulting companies to provide solutions to its clients. Cortell develops several products on its own and has a strong development team. Major technologies include MS SQL Server, Oracle, Delphi and Dot Net.
For further information, please feel free to contact us.
|
