About Us

How we came to be

Our History

As consultants we invest in our staff, individuals, consultants and alliance partners to enable us leverage emerging technologies to meet the growing demands and diverse needs of our clients. We employ and have partnered with more than 25 qualified and dedicated professionals to provide consultancy and project management, training, implementation, technical support and service. Our partnership alliances with Oracle Corporation-Oracle Kenya, Schneider Electric-Wonderware Southern Africa extended through their respective international networks enhances our reach, expertise and knowledge base deliver on what our client call upon from us.

Datamax consultancy was established in 2008, is a registered and incorporated in Kenya. Our Head Office based in Nairobi, this acts as our hub to cover the greater Eastern Africa Region. The company provides a broad range of services through consultancy and project/program management to clients looking to information and operations technology to improve their business. Our service is clustered into a diverse product solution offering mainly Oracle-Business and Wonderware-Operations Information technology plus other complimentary products slotting in between our focus solutions. Over the years the company has grown its client base in Eastern Africa to earn gold partner status under Oracle Partner Network for information Technology solutions. On the other hand and this year Datamax is a registered/recognized System integrator of Wonderware and has earmarked to get further expertise and certification to drive our operations technology solution provision goal. This will enable us cover businesses from the top to factory floor.

Our Vision

Orchestrate, create and bring together the best of staff, consulting partners and industry experts from across the organisation and it’s network with insights and capabilities to deliver ’quality’ as committed through ‘our technology resource ‘bearing in mind ‘our ‘primary responsibility of building trust and sustaining long-term client relationships and business.

Our Mission

Our mission is clearly from our motto Engage, Envision, Empower-Business Information Technology Solutions from Top to Factory Floor. Through this we focus on customer satisfaction to meet their needs and proper fulfilment by delivering what is required from us over and over again.

Our Company Objectives

Our broad company objectives can be drawn as follows;

  • Strive for customer satisfaction from our services by using technology to empower them through business and operation excellence.
  • Leverage world-class technology product solutions efficiently and effectively to meet our clients needs and requirement.
  • Maintain and exceed industry level standards for service delivery.

Our Philosophy

We are more than ’consultants’ who are not truly accountable for delivery. We are dedicated professionals as passionate about business as we are about technology. We are ‘business technologists’ We love change, there will always be another ‘problem’ to solve another innovation to implement but we are not about to give up! We are about progress. We are about bringing people, business and technology in order to empower progress from Top-Business to Factory-Operation Floors. We cannot do it alone, which is why we have a network of staff, consultants and alliance partners in place so that the envisioned progress is always possible. Progress has no ‘use-by’ date, so neither does our commitment to do whatever it takes to help you build now and in the future. Everyone has a story, give us an opportunity to write your story with you-as your ‘business technologists’

Our Values

We believe in certain pertinent values that greatly aid us to deliver successful projects for our clients.

  • Leadership and strategy with specific goals and objectives and realistic time frames.
  • Innovative and Integrated design, benchmarked and customized solutions for today and the future.
  • Collaborative ‘team’ performance from proper selection of staff, keys suppliers and alliance partners.
  • Business efficiency and operation excellence to achieve the “best value” preposition.
  • “Aftersales” support and service.

Our Methodology

‘It is easy to make something more complicated-to do the opposite you need and expert’. Driven by customer need for cost effectiveness, diversification of business functions for efficiency and a general trend toward adoption of our ‘business information technology’ philosophy, Datamax offers technology solutions deliver through consultancy, project/program management and technical support to its clients.

Datamax has an outstanding track record as a consultancy in I.T program/project management. As consulting program/project manager, we form a working partnership to ensure that client interests and business objectives are met in the most cost-effective manner. This operational methodology produces a quality project delivery that is safe, cost effective, technically sound, environmentally compliant and deliverable in a minimum time frame. We understand the importance of managing all the component parts of a project/program equally; we manage the whole by managing the pieces. We pay close attention to the small tasks that, if overlooked, can create a flow on effect on scheduled milestones or costs. This philosophy is a cornerstone of our approach to delivering as promised.

Using a collaborative-networked consultancy allows you to draw on our wide and invaluable experience. Our consultancy works with a broad group of partners. This encourages your business to explore diverse solution options presented to your business and then help select the best option to yield synergy and best value option for solution delivered to your business. Assessing your organization’s current practices against benchmarked industry-recognized best practices will help us identify gaps in your business where our networked expertise will help you focus on opportunities driving improvements to your business performance in line with your planned roadmap.

Organisation Structure

Our “one team” attitude break down silos and helps us engage equally effectively from end to end. Our collaborative working style emphasizes teamwork, trust and tolerance for different and divergent opinions. And we never go at it alone. We support and are supported to develop each other. We balance challenging and collaborating with our clients and partners, building internal and external capabilities required for them to create and deliver successful and repeatable results. We work hard, We enjoy what we do as “business technologists” and the core of all this is built around our company structure and team given below.

A. Board of Directors:

  • 1. Chairman & C.E.O: Mr.Robin Mairura
  • 2. Business Development & Marketing Director: Mrs.Fiona Bonareri
  • 3. Administration, Operations & Human Resource Director: Ms.Sharon Njoki
  • 4. Strategy & Compliance Director (Non-Executive): Mr.Christopher Oketch
  • 5. Technology & Solutions Director (Advisory & Non-Executive): Position to be filled
  • 6. Finance & Management Director (Advisory & Non-Executive): Position to be filled

B. Management:

  • 7. Products & Technical Support Manager: Mr.Ngumi Gituro
  • 8. Finance Manager: Ms.Kanza Abdo
  • 9. Project Management Manager: Ms.Petra Kwamboka

C. Staff:

  • 10. Administration, Operations, Human Resources & Marketing Support Officer 1
  • 11. Business Development 1 & Customer Support Officer 1
  • 12. Project Management Officer 1.
  • 13. Technical & Support Department Officers (3-Technical & 3 Support)

D. Alliance and Product Partners

  • 1. Oracle Corporation-International & East Africa Regional Office.
  • 2. Oracle Consulting Partners: Kenya, Middle East & India.
  • 3. Wonderware Southern Africa-Schneider Electric Industrial Software.
  • 4. Industrial Software & Automation Solutions Partners: East Africa & International
  • 5. Information Technology: Microsoft, NetApp and HP.
  • 6. Operation Technology: Signal Machine Automation, Rockwell Automation-Allan Bradley.
  • 7. Brainsoft Technologies Kenya: Real Estate Information Technology Solution.
  • 8. Synchrony Technologies Kenya: Insync Insurance, Human Resources & Payroll Information Technology Solution

Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

This is Datamax’s vision, mission and strategy for contributing to fostering a sustainable, effective and efficient society. The essence to CSR is listening to the voices of all the stakeholders and flexibly adapting practises based on the premise of sustainability in society and business. With that in mind we hear and have set out our CSR transformation principles and perspective in two directions.

1. Through Our Company’s:

A) Management systems: Corporate Governance, Compliance, Risk Management, and Privacy & Security.
B) Our People: Diversity and Inclusion, Creating Good Working Conditions, Occupational Safety & Health and Health Management, Human Resource and Career Development, Employee Related Indicators.
C) Our Stakeholders: Our initiatives, Stakeholder Dialogue with Our Customers, Our Management and Staff, Our Product and Alliance and all other stakeholders.
D) Our Community and Our Environment: Our Business Operations, Environment Management and Communication, Approach to Social Contribution Activities-Employee Volunteer, Sports, Disaster-Support and Relief and Others.

2. Digital transformation through Hybrid I.T and business centric infrastructure

Mobilizing the Enterprise, Enhancing Security. I.T inherently creates value through digital transformation through out business and society. Further progress and development in I.T makes problem solving and collaboration between humans and machines possible. At the same time new areas of concern like data security, privacy and decrease of employment call for stronger responses. In line with our goal to build a regional IT company, to reduce any negative impacts of our business activities on society while scaling up our business that sustainably benefit society our environment and all stakeholders. 2. Digital transformation through Hybrid I.T and business centric infrastructure, Mobilizing the Enterprise, Enhancing Security. I.T inherently creates value through digital transformation through out business and society. Further progress and development in I.T makes problem solving and collaboration between humans and machines possible. At the same time new areas of concern like data security, privacy and decrease of employment call for stronger responses. In line with our goal to build a regional IT company, to reduce any negative impacts of our business activities on society while scaling up our business that sustainably benefit society our environment and all stakeholders.