IDU NEWS

Gartner, the world’s leading research and advisory company recently published their Market Guide for Corporate Planning Applications.  IDU is very proud to have our award-winning Budgeting and Reporting Software idu-Concept recognized amongst the best in the world for providing innovative financial management solutions. The Gartner Market Guide is independent and insightful, it highlights the rapid development of financial analytics technology, and the considerable opportunit

Visit the IDU stand at the Finance Indaba Africa – 2016 IDU are proud silver partners to the Finance Indaba Africa– 2016 (13-14 October 2016, 9am to 10pm). Not only is this the biggest annual event of its kind for finance professionals, but the Finance Indaba also brings together a diversified and select group of industry leaders, related suppliers, technology forerunners, banks, business and finance executives, strategic synergy partners and respective authorities. There are

One of the things we are proudest of at IDU Software is the high level of successful software adoption our clients experience within their organisations. We recently received feedback from a few of them on why they think this is. Here are 7 tips to a successful software adoption as laid out by our clients – 1. Ensure you have buy in at all levels Before trying to sell a product or service to upper management, you need to make sure they agree that change is necessary. When spr

Sanlam Investments is one of South Africa’s largest investment management companies and has been around for almost a century. They offer a comprehensive range of local and offshore investment products to end-investors, financial planners and institutions. Their investment options include passively and actively managed unit trusts, hedge funds and segregated and pooled retirement funds. The way things were Every budget cycle, Gino Schoeman, Financial Manager of Sanlam Investme

Thank you to everybody who attended our 7th Annual User Conference earlier this month. It was a great success, filled with exceptional speakers, lessons and feedback. CEO, Kevin Philips shared the amazing consistent growth and success of the past few years, from revenue to the variety of industries we serve to our client base itself. This also included the exciting news that the IDU brand is no longer an exclusively South African brand; with idu-Concept being marketed and sol

IDU is pleased to announce that Rob Jones of IDU New Zealand will be speaking at the inaugural combined SageConnect conference in Australia, which begins on 18 February 2016. IDU New Zealand has enjoyed considerable success since it acquired the distribution rights for the idu-Concept product a few years ago. We are partnered with Sage Africa, Sage Middle East, and Sage Evolution Africa, whilst IDU New Zealand have followed a similar route with Sage Australasia. Sage is a lea

The Santa Shoebox Project is a wonderful cause that the idu team has supported annually over the past four years. Started in our home town of Cape Town, the Project began by collecting 180 shoeboxes for children in orphanages, children’s homes and care centres locally; by 2013 the project had collected 118 274 shoeboxes to be distributed to over 1000 facilities across South Africa and Namibia. What makes the project so special is that you can choose the name, age and gender o