| Background:
The current Red Banner companies were preceded by Red Banner Ltd. which started in London in 1998, founded by Jake Holloway and Jim Sweet, two software professionals with considerable experience. Sweet had worked as a university lecturer then for Greenpeace and Holloway for First Software, an Oracle start-up, as development director.
The company’s skills included eBusiness and eCommerce development, eFundraising and analysis skills. The company were Macromedia accredited and their skills covered ColdFusion, Spectra, ASP, C++, C, Java, EJB, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Infomix, XML, Unix, NT, Linux, JavaScript, Flash, XHTML, PHP 11S, Apache, mail servers and hosting. Their clients in the UK include, KPMG, Klegal, Railtrack, VNU Publishers, B&W, Teachers Benevolent fund & Medicins Sans Frontieres, just to name a few. One of their original products, developed in-house, was PeopleServer a (CMS) web content management system.
In March 2002 Red Banner UK gave Andre Webb permission to start Red Banner eBusiness Integration in South Africa.
Red Banner UK has since merged with e-2BE; a company that manages Railtrack’s intranet and training. The new company is called Afiniti. The "new" Red Banner in South Africa started off with PeopleServer which was redeveloped by Webb to be an Applications Hosted Solution to SME's.
Red Banner ISP:
Cydro Solutions was founded in 2001 by Simone Bester and Andro Engelbrecht. In June 2003 the company Cydro Solutions acquired Red Banner and changed it's name to Red Banner Internet Service Provider (Pty) Ltd. Red Banner ISP provides web design, web hosting, domain names and internet connectivity services, predominantly to the small business market that have been neglected by other ISPs and ignored by larger design and hosting companies.
The company's vision is to provide low cost hosting solutions to the SA SME market, and the company has since developed a combination of products and services that have made Red Banner ISP a one stop shopping place for all internet needs. Register a domain name, set up an e-shop, host your web site on either a Linux or Windows server, or have your own powerful dedicated server. Red Banner ISP does it all. A presence to the web is now as easy as 1-2-3 at prices that are affordable to all SME's.
Philosophy and Business Model of Red Banner ISP:
Red Banner ISP’s core philosophy and business model is to provide professional looking websites to SME businesses, at an aggressively reduced price range but still remain profitable due to our technology, resources engineering, business structure, high volume turnover and recurring income model.
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To provide advanced hosting of these websites on powerful and reliable servers at prices of less than 50% of industry standards.
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To provide top level domain names at prices of 30% to 60% less than industry standards.
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To provide internet connectivity as a value added service at the lowest prices in the SA industry.
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Our aggressive pricing strategy is possible due to the following aspects:
Internet Service Providers have been around since the mid 1990s in South Africa, and have grown and matured into a heavy growth market. Red Banner ISP will specifically market to South Africa’s extensive Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) and small to medium (SME) business markets.
The majority are businesses which mostly don’t have websites at present, due to the high development, design and hosting cost.
Our research has proven that More than 1 million SME's want their own domain-name-professional-website and business-name-email at the right prices. Red Banner ISP's business strategy, infrastructure and services were engineered to offer cost-effective, professional web solutions that ALL Small Businesses CAN AFFORD. Our prices justifies why website can be a cost-effective tool that
(a) functions as a 24-hour dynamic multimedia brochure and
(b) your business keep up the same professional image as your opposition and competitive markets.
This leaves Red Banner ISP a virtually untapped market.
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