Marion is a South African IT company with three business units: software development, business consulting, and cloud services. It works with customers across multiple industries to understand their business needs and provide customized IT solutions, including developing custom software, IT consulting, and hosting services. Marion aims to be a full-service IT partner that can meet all of a customer's IT needs rather than just providing individual products or services.

1. established in 1993, with a primary focus
on custom software development. The
continuous pursuit of growth resulted in a
strategic decision to become an encom-
passing IT partner to companies across
South Africa.
customers is business-driven. Our philo-
and services exist purely to support
in line with the business requirements of
our customers and immediately contribute
to their business.
Company Overview
www.marion.co.za
Marion (Pty) Ltd
Marion has three distinct business units:
• Marion Software Development,
• Marion Business Consulting and
• Marion Cloud
The business units provide services indi-
vidually to customers but, more importantly,
synergies exist between the business units
toprovidecustomerswithatotal ITsolution,
based on their requirements.
Tel: 0861 MARION (627 466)
Marion is a privately owned company
business requirements. Operating within
this methodology allows us to understand
the business of our customers. It also
Marion’s model for engagement with
sophy is that IT and IT-related functions
ensures that the solutions we propose are
Fax:
E-mail: info@marion.co.za
PO Box 68648, Highveld, 0169
29 Victoria Link, Route 21 Corporate Park,
Irene Ext 72, 0157
0865 318 318

2. Marion’s Business Consulting unit provides
as a whole.Marion’s resources range across
multiple disciplines and includes:
the resources required for providing their
line of business systems. With the Marion
rather than simply providing them with
infrastructure.
• Business Analysts
• Hardware and Systems Engineers
• IT Project Managers
• IT and Enterprise Architects
• Software Developers
• Software Testers and Test Managers
• SoftwareandHardwareSupportEngineers
• System Analysts
Marion Cloud
Marion Business Consulting provides direct
defined process where the business
requirements and functional requirements
of clients are gathered, documented and
agreed to with customers. Throughout
this process, we adhere to Software
Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles
and best practices. Following a pre-defined
process from analysis to final solution
implementation ensures that we deliver
what was expected and agreed to, on time
andatthecostagreedtowithourcustomers.
The core services consist of:
A world-class data centre, including:
The services consist of:
Within the Marion Cloud we host two very
for custom-developed solutions which can
•
• Hosted Web Service
• Hosted Backups
• Hosted PABX
• Hosted Content Portals, such as
• Microsoft Hosted Exchange
• Microsoft Hosted Sharepoint
• Microsoft Hosted Lync
• Microsoft Hosted Dynamics CRM
• Network Services, such as DNS and
•
The Marion Cloud provides a complete
Marion Software Development
If you can dream it, we can build it!
Marion Software Development’s core focus is the development of software to meet
the needs and requirements of our customers. Marion ensures that the client gets
the appropriate software to enable their business to gain a competitive advantage
rivals using off-the-shelf software. Our customised, developed software solutions
provide customers with a toolset that will ensure their core business runs as
efficiently and effectively as possible. During the system design phase the following
aspects are continuously taken into consideration:
• Compatibility
• Extensibility
• Fault-tolerance
• Maintainability
• Modularity
• Packaging
• Reliability
• Reusability
• Robustness
• Security
• Scalability
• Usability
Marion uses a strong object-orientated approach to all our software, which ensures
that the abovementioned aspects are addressed by default in all the software we
develop. Following this approach makes us more flexible to accommodate additional
features not addressed in the initial requirements.
Business Consulting ensures successful
to have it.
Highly skilled staff, including:
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Marion Business Consulting
Our customers do not have to own it
be run on the Marion core infrastructure.
turnkey solution regarding all IT aspects
customers with resources on a per-project,
consultative, advisory or contracting basis.
access to a resource, but to the knowledge,
support and business continuity of Marion
When customers engage with Marion
Business Consulting, they don’t just have
input into the Marion Software Develop-
ment and Marion Cloud divisions by a pre-
projects.
solutions that add value to our customers,
Cloud we aim to provide services and
down without having to invest and manage
This allows our customers to scale up or
• Backup power
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• Multiple redundant data connections,
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distinct services. The first of these services
consists of shrink-wrapped products that
are commercially available to our customers.
Secondly,Marionalsoprovidescloudservices
A competent support service
compliment, ensuring that no single
staff member is indispensable
by the support staff
A qualified and supplementary staffing
from a single IT service provider.
DotNetNuke and the like
Domain registration
On-premise IT Support services
Connectivity
A proper understanding of best practices
Constant and proactive education and
training
Redundant, highly available hardware,
ensuring that products and services are
never down
Disaster recovery procedures
Environmental control and monitoring
allowing for always-on connectivity
the safety of the data
Proactive backups
Physical and electronic security to ensure