The Sandbox Holdings Group was formed in 2007 as the holdings group resulting from the merger between Sandbox Projects (Pty) Ltd and Sitronix (Pty) Ltd. Both of these entities where family owned business’s up to the time that Paul Wootten the current CEO of the group was invited to join the companies as a minority shareholder in 2005, with the express purpose of corporatising the structures and at that time ready the group for a listing.
The combined group performed very well leading up to and following the merger, along with the founding shareholders who had by 2007 largely vacated the day to day operations, it was decided to bring in a Private equity company to replace them rather than pursue a listing.
A significant contributor fuelling the growth has been the 40% shareholding acquired by the management of the group, and the huge supportive role its Private Equity partner Aureos has played through two of its investment funds in the group (Aureos African Fund and Aureos Southern African Fund).
Today the Sandbox Group has grown significantly in size and capability, which in the process has completely transformed itself into a solid high-end Enterprise Quality Technology Partner capable of taking on the largest of technology projects available in South Africa.
The strategy of the Group is to focus on the provision of technology to improve the three main assets of any organisation namely its People, Business Processes and Physical Operating Environment.
Around these three aspects Sandbox strive and drive the provision of technological competitive advantage that will either Make or Save money (or both) with an absolute focus on maintaining the client’s social, environmental and Biographical Integrity.
Tactically this involves the provision of
High end Software skills capable of deploying systems using a variety of Methodologies specifically targeted at addressing the focused objective in the optimal fashion thereby maximising the ROI in support of our clients own strategies.
End-to-end Environment Control, Automated Intelligent Surveillance Systems and a comprehensive array of human support technologies from Audio Visual Interfaces to Automatic Intent Detection for large scale Residential and Corporate park, Office buildings, Shopping Malls, Banking Halls, highly sensitive automated environments such as Cash centres and Government facilities.
Supporting services such as Large scale Engineering design, Project management, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) consulting and formalisation, onsite /offsite specific system or software application Training in support of the SOP’s, 24Hr/7day a week/365days a year automated and intelligent assisted command and Remote monitoring of systems and facilities , 24/7/365 Operational Call centre support, and 24/7/365 on site disaster, incident, repair and resolution support capability across the range of technology implemented.
Each of the groups divisions has a focused specialisation in technology and industries. This has enabled the group to rapidly familiarise themselves with their clients current issues that need to be addressed without first having to spend huge resources on understanding the nuances and dynamics of the clients commercial operating market.
Technical skills too are scaled to ensure the highest quality deployment with the right blend of speed of deployment and cost to optimise the ROI potential.
Post implementation is a huge focus of the group as the client cost in this area, if not maintained in terms of recommended Service level Arrangements, can easily exceed the capital cost of the initial installation, or worse, result in zero or negative benefit to an organisation now heavily reliant on technology for providing operating advantage. Couple this with today’s highly demanding, always on, operating environment the Sandbox support facilities have been built for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 365 days a year operation.
For those businesses’s that require their systems and/or environment to be operated or monitored whilst they are unable to do so – often referred to as a “Lights Out Environment” (where computers simply take over and do what humans do (but with the lights out)! The Sandbox Group, Command and Compliance Centre, is ready to oblige. In addition one of the Sandbox divisions provides specialised Enterprise Compliance and Risk Software, Base legislative content and consulting services to ensure a peaceful night’s sleep knowing this complex and Authorities imposed obligation, with potentially punitively expensive liabilities, have been addressed.
In essence if technology provides you with a competitive advantage,
Sandbox provides you with the Enterprise Partner of Choice!