ECA Technologies Africa (Pty) Ltd
Water in Cape Town

ECA Technologies Africa is a South African founded company and is a leader in the provision of ECA Solutions in the Pathogen Management and Carbon Disinfection Technology (Municipal Wastewater) market space. We started out in the European market (based in Ireland) and investigated the opportunities on the African continent for a few years before deciding the time was perfect to compete for business in this emerging giant. An equity based deal with a local VC has allowed ECA Technologies to launch in earnest in South Africa and start to target to whole Sub-Saharan African region. The company is also seriously focussed on the growth and welfare of the African continent and its people. This technology provides the perfect platform to introduce clean drinking water to poor rural areas and provide a cost effective way of keeping local hospitals and doctors rooms clean from deadly viruses and bacteria. ECA Technologies Africa is a company born out of Africa and is ready to give back to the continent. After co-founding Avelreagh Holdings in Ireland which launched products and companies like the FB-i drive, i-Track and Nova consulting, he won the contract to launch Micro-Clean (an ECA Technologies company in Ireland) and finally brought the technology to Africa in the form of ECA Technologies Africa and Eco-Lyte. Mark is the driving force behind the company and has a vision for the green future of South Africa and Africa as a whole. ECA Technologies Africa can play a paramount role in providing clean water and recycling solutions to this continent. Green cleaning is about examining your entire cleaning processes based upon an assessment of spaces, products and practices to maximize cleanliness, both in terms of dirt germs, while at the same time reducing unnecessary hazardous cleaning chemical exposures to clientele, staff, and all visitors reducing the environmental harm of disposing of used chemicals. The Project Manager (PM) confers with the organisation’s management to determine the high-level functionality that should be implemented to meet the defined business requirements of the ECA Technology solution. The requirements are used to determine the base and expansion of the complete solution that will be implemented and the scope of the project is set. Additionally due to scalability of the solution the number of geographical locations and user groups to which the device will ultimately be deployed, training needs and testing environments are specified for further costing purposes. Once finalisation of this stage has been reached, the project leaders should have a high-level understanding of the expected functionality of the system, its architectural complexities, capitalising on the overlap with other projects including integrating Managerial, Operational, Social, and Technical project components. The Requirements Definition is then produced, which details planned functionality to be included, iterations, timelines, major deliverables and dependencies on other projects. This will then be incorporated into the Project Management Plan, forming an important communication tool that should be used both for project team guidance and for addressing user expectations. In many cases, taking advantage of the opportunities provided by powerful technological advances or succeeding in increasingly competitive environments requires discontinuous change. Attempting to leverage technology or become more competitive without fundamental process redesign heightens the risk that significant investments in new technology or enterprise engineering will yield few if, any improvements in productivity and no return on a major financial investment. Upon closer examination, more times than not you will find that where new technology is implemented it has been superimposed on existing work processes rather than adapting new processes. This creates the real possibility that significant investments in new systems will hinder rather than enable needed change. ECA Technologies consider the implementation of a new system and the training of relevant staff as the most critical factor in determining the success or otherwise of a new system. ECA Technologies Africa defines training as the communication and transfer of new knowledge, skills and changing of attitudes. Without it you cannot demonstrate that your investment in the programme of business change was worthwhile. This time will also be used to draw up final report back documentation defining issues or commitments still to be resolved, next phase activities and SLA.