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Driving IT integration

Absa`s Leon du Rand is going to have his hands full merging his IT department with Barclays`.

03 October 2005

The Absa/Barclays deal has been finalised and the two companies` IT teams will, over the next three years, work together to drive the integration of the companies` back-end systems, infrastructure and IT management systems. And with Leon du Rand, group executive in charge of Absa`s business and technology services, at the helm of this move from Absa`s perspective, things should go off without a hitch.

The reason for this is quite simple. Du Rand was involved at the coalface during the merger and acquisition trail that ultimately led to the entity we today know as Absa.

Once around the block

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