TBL Inspirer

Volume 2, Number 1 Inspiring Solutions

Techno Brain Ltd has spread its wings and opened an office in

Hyderabad, India. Anand Mohan, CEO Techno Brain India Pvt

Ltd., is happy to announce that the Techno Brain India Office is

now up and running. Their address is:

Techno Brain India Pvt Ltd

5th Floor, Laxmi Cyber Center,

8-2-682 Avenue 1, Road No.12,

Banjara Hills, Hyderabad -500031

INDIA

Office Phone number: +91 40 44660202

Office Fax number: +91 40 44660201

Anand’s Mobile number:+91 9000 116117

Anand’s Direct Number:+91 40 44660200

The following staff have joined the team:

1. Baswapathi Mohan: HR Recruiter and Administrator, Phone:

+91 9000955534 , Email: mbaswapathi@technobrainltd.com

2. Rudra Kalakirshna: Software Developer (Microsoft .NET),

Phone: +91 9989853330, Email:

krudra@technobrainltd.com

3. Tanamala Kiran: Sales Consultant (NGO vertical), Phone:

+91 9000933375, Email: ktanamala@technobrainltd.com

For all India based recruitment, Please contact Mohan Baswapa-

thi. He will coordinate and support all overseas recruitment.

Please extend your support to this new team.

TBL LAUNCHES INDIA OPERATIONS

TBL Launches India Opera-

tions………………………………..1

Corporate Events ………………..2

Country Offices News—Solutions

……………………………………...3

Solutions Projects………………...5

Training News …………………... 6

Annual Business Conference

……………………………………...7

Annual Business Conference in

pictures ……………………………8

Annual Business Conference 2009

Awards …………………………..10

Techno Brain in pictures, and Ku-

dos.……………………………… 11

T e c h n o B r a i n i n P i c -

tures…………………………….. 12

Table of Contents

India team

HEAD OFFICE

PO Box 10295,

Plot Number 1380/208,

Bibi Titi Mohammed Road,

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

Tel: +255 22 2113502 / 2118302

Fax: +255 22 2118298

Email:info@technobrainltd.com

URL:www.technobrainltd.com

February 5th—7th, 2009: Techno Brain‘s Annual Business

Conference 2009, White Sands Beach Resort, Dar es Sa-

laam, Tanzania.

February 9th, 2009: Mahesh Jain of Integra, India, visited

and participated in demonstrating ―IMFAST - Financial In-

clusion System‖ to the Directorate of Banking Supervision

department at the Bank of Tanzania in Dar-es-Salaam.

February 9th—11th, 2009: Chris Mukua, Public Sector Ac-

count Manager, and Peter Warari, Public Sector Lead, from

Microsoft East & Southern Africa visited TBL Dar-es-Salaam

regarding Microsoft‘s engagement with the Government of

Tanzania.

February 12th-14th, 2009: Diana Maina, OEM Partner Ac-

count Manager, and Robin Njiru, Solutions Partner Manger,

from Microsoft East & Southern Africa, visited TBL Dar-es-

Salaam, Tanzania.

March 12th—15th, 2009: ICT Educational Expo at Sarit

Center in Nairobi Kenya (See photographs, right).

March 13th-15th: Claire Mungai, Accounts Receivable Sup-

port, from Microsoft East & Southern Africa, visited TBL Dar

-es-Salaam regarding receivables from some key clients in

Tanzania.

March 16th—20th, 2009: Demonstration of Serenic Naviga-

tor to the participants of the USAID/CDC Administrative Com-

pliance Requirements and Financial Management at the US Em-

bassy in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania (See photograph, below)

March 16th, 2009: Security Certified Professional Seminar,

TBL/NH Nairobi, Kenya

April 21st, 2009: Elise Jensen, HIV/AIDS Officer, and her

team from USAID Tanzania visited TBL Dar-es-Salaam for a

demonstration of the Serenic Navigator accounting software

package.

June 3rd, 2009: TBL Kenya will host ―Conquering the Chal-

lenges Facing NGOs‖ at the Pan Africa hotel, Nairobi. So far

25 NGO‘s & 40 participants comprising of accountants, fund

managers, grant managers and financial controllers have

confirmed participation. Mr. Baris of Serenic Corporation will

be one of the key note speakers.

CORPORATE EVENTS ICT Educational Expo at Sarit

Center, TBL/NH Kenya

In its quest to inspire solutions TBL has

opened an office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Country Manager Mekonnen (pictured right) is

currently on the ground, working together with

our partners in addressing multimillion dollar

opportunities in the areas of training and ICT

solutions. A New Horizons Computer Training

Center is planned to be opened in the near

future to address the potentially huge ICT training market.

Ethiopia is in an ICT boom in almost every of its various indus-

tries. There are plans to take part in a major ICT exhibition in

the country at the end of May.

Techno Brain Uganda Ltd is now the second office to be ISO

certified, but the first to be ISO 9001-2008! This makes

them one of the first few companies in

Uganda to be certified this way given

the fact that previously certification was

for ISO 9001-2000. With this certifica-

tion TBUL are sure that this will signifi-

cantly help them to improve their per-

formance in future.

TBL Tanzania has received System Acceptance & Project Sign

Off Certificate from Tanzania Revenue Authority for the newly

deployed web based Motor Vehicle Registration System which

allows Integration between TRA‘s Customs Clearance System

(ASYCUDA) & existing Vehicle Registration System (CMVRS).

TRA acknowledged the stability and usefulness of the system

and already witnessed better collections and improved cus-

tomer satisfaction due to the new system. The solution now

enable citizens to register their imported motor vehicles at the

port of entry along with customs clearance and help TRA in

electronic verification of importation documents before regis-

tering any motor vehicle.

COUNTRY OFFICES NEWS - SOLUTIONS

Wed April 22, 2009

“Techno Brain

Ltd is no

longer smiling

in the dark.

Today TBL is

an icon in Af-

rica and beyond Africa

every one can see TBL smil-

ing in broad day light be-

cause of it's timely technol-

ogy. All the best TBL team.”

Mwale (TBL Zambia)

Thu March 26, 2009

―TBUL could not

achieve this certi-

fication (ISO 9001-

2008) without the

support they re-

ceived from all

staff. Asuman Abayo was the

driving entity as the Manage-

ment Representative, Rajeev

guiding the whole team, Mr.

Sinha from UMD was our con-

sultant. Special thanks to

Jimmy Mungai and Jijo Joseph

(both TBL Tanzania) for ex-

tending much needed support,

as well as the TBL manage-

ment—without them we could

not have achieved this certifi-

cation.‖

Raghav (TBL Uganda).

TECHNO BRAIN LTD LAUNCHES OPERATIONS IN ETHIOPIA

TBL UGANDA GETS ISO 9001-2008 CERTIFIED

TBL TANZANIA RECEIVES SYSTEM ACCEPTANCE CERTIFICATE

TBL Malawi earlier this year commissioned the Optical Mark

Recognition (OMR) data capture solution and Election Ware-

house Management System for the Malawi Electoral Commis-

sion to assist them to manage very important aspects of elec-

tions management.

Our solution arrived just in time! The fourth multiparty presi-

dential and parliamentary elections in Malawi were held on

19th May 2009. For this year‘s elections, there were an esti-

mated 5.9 million voters, 3,900 poll booths, seven presidential

contenders and 1,100 candidates for 193 seats.

Our solution on OMR capturing technology helped MEC to digi-

tize hundreds of thousands of election forms while, TBL‘s cus-

tom-developed Election Warehouse Management Software was

tracking the movement of each and every election materials

across the country. During MEC project, TBL has also done im-

plementation of state of art hardware and network infrastruc-

ture employing HP Blade Server systems, Fibre Optic Network-

ing etc. TBL onsite consultant Goodson and rest of the Malawi

team is managing the post implementation support of these

turnkey projects in Malawi Electoral Commission. Indeed, this

was an elections powered by Techno Brain Ltd.

On March 25th 2009 TBL Kenya completed the implementa-

tion of Serenic Navigator at AGRA, Kenya and Ghana offices.

Immediately thereafter, an Annual Technical Support (ATS)

contract was signed in the tune of 13,500 USD, which has

been paid 100%.

Furthermore, installation of Biometric Time and Attendance

system for GAPCO, in 5 locations i.e. Nairobi, Nakuru, Kisumu,

Eldoret and Mombasa has been successfully completed. All

sites are up and 100% payment has been collected and ob-

tained certificate of completion.

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has officially ap-

proved our Final Report, following the consultancy for a new

and improved MIS system. This means that we, TBL Kenya,

can go into Phase III, where we will help them tender and pro-

cure an MIS system arising from our consultancy report. This

final approval letter serves as a certificate of completion.

The TBL Kenya team has also grown, from a total solutions

staff of 5 in 2008 (Alfred, Christine, Millicent, Loice and

Jeremiah) to 11 (original 5 + Mohammed, Nicholas, Samar,

Jean, Chris, Peter).

“I would like to update that we

started recently Security Cer-

tifications campaign and last

Saturday we had a Seminar at

our centre and invited various

corporate clients and got the

good response here am attach-

ing the details...

I am sure with the EC Council

Accreditation will give us

more impact to position vari-

ous security products and we

will surely focus and capture

the market…”

Vijay Balabhadra, TBL/NH,

Kenya

TBL MALAWI SOLUTION POWERS MALAWI 2009 ELECTIONS

TBL KENYA COMPLETES AGRA IMPLEMENTATION, OTHER PROJECTS

Security Certified Profes-

sional Seminar, TBL/NH Nai-

robi, Kenya

KEY SOLUTIONS PROJECTS COMPLETED - 2009

SBC (Pepsi), Tanzania - Microsoft Dynamics NAV Enterprise

Resource Planning (ERP) implementation (have also already

implemented Techno Brain‘s Payroll System)

Alliance for Green Africa (AGRA), Kenya – Enterprise Re-

source Planning (ERP) implementation.

Shayona Cement Corporation, ERP Implementation (MS Dy-

namics NAV), Malawi - Integrated Financial Management,

Sales & Distribution and Management system.

Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), HR Management

System, Tanzania - Integrated HR Management System

with Payroll and various HR Management Modules.

Tanzania Revenue Authority, Integrated Web Based Motor

Vehicle Registration System, - Web based motor vehicle

registration system which is integrated with TRA's customs

software (ASYCUDA).

GAPCO, Biometric Installation, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda,

Rwanda - Installation, configuration and training of Biomet-

ric based Time & Attendance system.

HR Management System, DFID, Uganda - Integrated HR

Management System with Payroll and various HR Manage-

ment Modules.

Ministry of Finance, Tanzania, Accountant General‘s Depart-

ment - Audit Management System.

Office of the Vice President, Tanzania - Electronic Records

Management System.

M2M, Republic of South Africa – Public Sector Accounting

System, Serenic Navigator 5.0

Tostan, Senegal - Public Sector Accounting System, Serenic

Navigator 5.0

Uganda Communications Commission - Supply, Installation

and Commissioning of Intranet for UCC using Microsoft

SharePoint services

High Commission of India in Uganda - Design of Website

Parliament of Uganda—Supply and Installation of Digital

Signage System.

Parliament of Uganda - Supply and Installation of Library

Security System.

Multiple Industries Ltd. - implementing Microsoft Dynamics

NAV at Multiple Industries and will automate its Supply

Chain components.

KEY SOLUTIONS PROJECTS WINS - 2009

TBL IN RSA

Techno Brain Ltd has made its

first foray into the Republic of

South Africa market by imple-

menting an ERP project for

mothers2mothers (m2m), a

multinational NGO based in

Cape Town, RSA. Through one

of its Functional Consultants,

Loice (TBL Kenya), Techno

Brain Ltd has successfully imple-

mented Serenic Navigator 5.0,

an integrated financial manage-

ment system.

In addition, Techno Brain Ltd is

also in the final phases of imple-

menting HuRIS, Techno Brain‘s

own HR and Payroll system.

Senior Software Engineer

Mkunga Jnr. (TBL Tanzania) is

currently at m2m in Cape Town

implementing this phase.

ANNOUNCMENT

Joel Gachomo has been ap-

pointed as Head- ERP Practice

& Enterprise Solution for

Techno Brain.

All ERP Project

Managers and

team leaders

will directly re-

port to him. He

will lay down

structure for

further reporting.

TRAINING NEWS

UMEME U Ltd, Uganda: MS Office 2003/XP

International Committee of Red Cross, Uganda: MS Office

2003/XP

Northern Uganda Rehabilitation Program: Office 2007

Crystal Clear Software Ltd, Uganda: VB.NET 2005

Malaria Research Collaboration- Mulago, Uganda: SQL 2005

Netherlands Embassy, Uganda: MS Office 2003/XP

Computer Point, Uganda: MS Office 2007

Hospice Africa Uganda: MS Office 2003

British High Commission, Uganda: MS Office 2007

Logix Technical Solutions, Uganda: MS Office 2003/XP

Pride Microfinance, Uganda: Security+

KEY TRAINING PROJECTS COMPLETED - 2009

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Uganda: CISSP Training

Barclays Bank, Uganda: CISSP Training

Uganda Red Cross: MCSE/Security+

Standard Chartered Bank, Uganda: MCSA

UNICEF, Uganda: ITIL

MildMay, Uganda: Exchange Server 2007

FINCA Uganda: Linux+

Microcare Uganda: Oracle 10g

Directorate of ICT Makerere, Uganda: Oracle 10g

Irish Aid/Ireland Embassy, Uganda: MCSA Training

Infectious Disease Institute, Uganda: CISSP Training

Security Certified Seminar, Kenya

KEY TRAINING PROJECT WINS - 2009

The Ministry of Local Govern-ment, Malawi came to Dar-es-

Salaam to train on Serenic Navi-

gator. Below are some photo-

graphs at the commencement pictured with “instructors” Boaz Kurubeija, Quincy Mwasi (both TBL Malawi) & Joel Gachomo

(TBL Tanzania)

TECHNO BRAIN ANNUAL BUSINESS CONFERENCE 2OO9, DAR-ES-SALAAM, TANZANIA

Techno Brain Ltd held its Annual Business Conference 2009 at

the beautiful White Sands Resort on the outskirt of Dar-es-

Salaam, Tanzania.

The ABC ‗09 provided an excellent platform for colleagues

from the whole of Techno Brain regions to interact, discuss

and debate best practices, understand Techno Brain‘s vision

and road map for the future.

Day One: After the inaugural address by Disha Patel, the

conference agenda included 2008 Sales Review and Analysis

presented by Country Managers; Operations presented by De-

livery Head, ERP Head and Financial Controller; New Initiatives

in 2009 presented by CEO Manoj Shankar and Disha Patel.

Day Two: Started with a presentation by CEO Manoj Shankar

on the TBL vision and mission plus the way forward. The Solu-

tions Department then continued with the Targets and Re-

sponsibilities for 2009 by Country Managers; Strengthening &

initializing Best Practices within TBL which included QMS and

ISO, Implementing CRM, and MIS; Partner Approach by CEO-

Manoj Shankar; Public & Private Client Relationship Manage-

ment. Meanwhile, the Training Department broke off and had

Targets and Responsibilities for 2009 meeting separately; Din-

ner and Awards Night for the whole conference.

Day Three: The agenda included Partner Landscape; Partner

presentation by Serenic; Vote of Thanks.

Day One of ABC

Day Two

Asuman Abayo (TBL Uganda) left, and Jimmy Mungai (TBL Tan-

zania) share points –both are Management Representatives

driving TBL’s ISO initiatives in Uganda and Tanzania, respec-

tively.

Left: Elangwa, Mariayah, and Christopher (all TBL Tanzania) listening to proceedings at the ABC.

Techno Brain Annual Business Conference attendees pose for a group photograph.

ANNUAL BUSINESS CONFERENCE 2009 IN PICTURES

Left: Vivek (TBL Malawi), Shyam (TBL Tanzania), Moses & Roy (both TBL Malawi) about to present.

CEO Manoj

Rajeev (TBL

Uganda)

Alfred (TBL

Kenya)

Kiran (TBL

Tanzania)

Milicent (TBL

Kenya)

Stella (TBL Tan-

zania) Disha (TBL Tan-

zania)

Mariyah (TBL

Tanzania)

Anand (CEO

TBL India)

Select Pictures at ABC 2009

Left: Shivrinder (TBL/NH Tanza-

nia), Raghav (TBL/NH Uganda),

listening to Vijay (TBL/NH

Techno Brain Annual Business Conference attendees pose for a group photograph.

ANNUAL BUSINESS CONFERENCE 2009 IN PICTURES

Raghav (TBL

Uganda)

Mwale (TBL

Zambia)

Michael (TBL

Kenya)

CEO Manoj

Above: Jeremiah (TBL Kenya), Asuman, Herman (both TBL Uganda) and Roy (TBL Malawi) listening to proceedings at the ABC.

Above: Shashi (TBL Tanzania) Uttam (TBL Malawi), Rajeev and Raghav (both TBL Uganda) listening to proceedings at the ABC.

Samar (TBL

Kenya)

Benjamin

(TBL Kenya)

Rising Star of the Year 2008 Award:

Dorothy Nanfuka (TBL/NH

Uganda)

MD’s Club Members Award:

A l ex Mukama (TBL/NH

Uganda)

Herman Mutesasira (TBL

Uganda)

Majid Mushi (TBL/NH Tanzania)

Colins Abuya (TBL/NH Kenya)

Long Service Award:

Bhaskar Shah (TBL Tanza-

nia)

Tushar Patel (TBL Tanza-

nia)

Victor Jacob Msina (TBL

Tanzania)

Outstanding Performer of the Year 2008—

Operations Award:

Jijo Joseph (TBL Tanzania)

Outstanding Performer of the Year 2008—Pre Sales Award:

Saj Abraham (TBL Tanzania)

Outstanding Performer of the Year 2008—Customer Service Award:

Christopher Wambura (TBL Tanzania)

Outstanding Performer of the Year 2008—Finance:

Shyam Sunder (TBL Tanzania)

Outstanding Performer of the Year 2008—Project Execution:

Mkunga Mtingile Jr.

Overall Outstanding Performer of the Year 2008:

Jose Vivek Araujo (TBL Malawi)

Outstanding Performer of the

Year 2008—Sales Award: Rhoda Mwambegele (TBL/NH Tan-

zania)

ANNUAL BUSINESS CONFERENCE 2009 AWARDS

Star Performer of the Year 2008:

Joel Gachomo (TBL Tanzania)

On Friday night, the second day of the ABC 2009, Techno

Brain hosted the ABC 2009 awards commemorating the suc-

cesses over the previous year and recognizing the many

Techno Brain employees who have been with the company

over the years. The event was followed by a wonderful coastal

-oriented dinner by the beach. Congratulations to all who were

awarded and hopefully others will be motivated to perform

better.

His Excellency State President Ngwazi Dr. Bingu Wa Mutharika signs papers inaugurating the new Export Trading Group Pi-geon Peas Processing Plant in Makhetha, Blantyre, Malawi.

Techno Brain Ltd Chairman and Managing Director Mr. Mahesh

Patel looks on.

Vivek Araujo (Techno Brain Malawi) right, is introduced to His Exellency State President Ngwazi Dr. Bingu Wa

Mutharika, by Mr Mahesh Patel, Chairman and Managing Director of Techno Brain Ltd.

On Techno Brain Uganda Lim-

ited becoming ISO 9001-

2008 Certified.

Raghav, Congratulations to you & team for the splendid job done. Special kudos to Asuman and Rajeev for all the hard work.

CEO Manoj Shankar, Dar-es-

Salaam, Tanzania

Congratulations Raghav and team. Kenya is next, we shall ask for your support. Regards.

Alfred Mugo, Nairobi, Kenya

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!TBUL Team. It is a remarkable achievement and it will open new doors of business opportunities. Re-gards.

Shiv and Team,

Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

Congratulations to each team member involved in this ISO certification, for achieving this important milestone!! Best Re-gards.

M. B. Shyam Sunder,

Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

—-- * ——

On Anand getting the TBL In-

dia Office up and running.

Good show Anand. This is our first investment outside the continent and I expect Indian centre to be backbone for all future development and sup-port

CEO Manoj Shankar, Dar-es-

Salaam, Tanzania

Hi Anand, Congratulations to all the members of our India team. On behalf of all the team members from Ma-lawi, I extend a warm wel-come to all the new mem-bers of TBL family.

Ninad Mairal, Lilongwe,

Malawi Dear Anand, Congratulations to all of you..........

Vijay Balabhadra , Nairobi,

Kenya

TECHNO BRAIN LTD IN PICTURES

Don (TBL Tanzania) poses with participants of the USAID/CDC Administrative Compliance Requirements and Financial

Management.

KUDOS

Michael Owidi (TBL Tanzania) got married to the beautiful Naomi Opapa in Dar-es-Salaam

TECHNO BRAIN LTD IN PICTURES Happy Birthdays Uganda Style!

Is that chocolate cake…..? ?

Yummy!!

Below: Farewell to Nilma Solanki (TBL Tanzania) who will be getting married in May and moving to the UK.

Above: Techno Brain India Pvt.

Ltd team

Above: Select Techno Brain

Kenya Ltd team