{"id":3861,"date":"2021-06-22T10:25:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T08:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/netsurit.com\/en-za\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2025-10-30T06:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:25:48","slug":"netsurit-cio-wins-award-for-saas-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netsurit.com\/en-za\/netsurit-cio-wins-award-for-saas-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Netsurit&#8217;s CIO wins award for SaaS product"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rapid innovation in the face of the sudden workplace disruption; Louis de Klerk has won a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/globeeawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Globee\u00ae IT World Award<\/a> in the bronze category for Chief Technology Officer of the Year for his development and bringing to life of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/npm.netsurit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Netsurit Productivity Monitor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;Globee&nbsp;Awards&nbsp;are the world\u2019s premier business&nbsp;awards consisting of eleven award programs \u2013 IT World Awards\u00ae being one of them \u2013 honouring organisations of all types and sizes and the people behind their success. The Globee Awards recognise outstanding achievements and performances in businesses worldwide and nominations are reviewed by industry peers and experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IT industry\u2019s premier excellence awards program honours achievements in every facet of the information technology industry. There is no other industry-wide recognitions program like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Netsurit NPM - Netsurit Productivity Monitor\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VlozE2Wa1gc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Louis de Klerk is the CIO at Netsurit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In February 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a month prior to South Africa\u2019s first hard lockdown, Louis projected that the lockdown implementation strategies seen in China and Italy at that time would spread world-wide. Requiring most people to work from home \u2013 significantly decreasing the visibility that management would have over people\u2019s productivity and work habits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the course of a month Louis researched and developed a minimal viable product (Netsurit Productivity Monitor, or NPM) that would monitor people in an ethical way that is business-relevant, yet still provide organisations with relevant insights into people\u2019s work patterns regardless of where they work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Netsurit Productivity Monitor is all about building and maintaining trust between employees and management. NPM is designed to better understand trends and capacity within a company as well as to look out for potential burnout candidates, encouraging a healthy work-life balance for everyone in the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keeping privacy and trust in the forefront, NPM only gathers relevant information, such as: Login Name\/ Account name; Email Address; Department; Job Title; Line Manager; Date, Time and participants\/ recipients of meetings and emails, and lastly; Time spent on any Business Applications &amp; Websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By April 2020 Louis had the NPM solution deployed to 4 paying customers. With the MVP successful, Louis started to mature the solution into a full SaaS product, coordinated and contributed the creation of marketing and sales collateral, and by August Netsurit had 9 paying customers, monitoring over 1,600 users. The months that followed showed that NPM was also very effective at introducing Netsurit to new customers \u2013 allowing us to sell not only NPM, but our other IT services too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Louis\u2019 achievement was in predicting a specific need that many companies would develop, and quickly creating and selling a solution that our existing customer would derive much needed value from \u2013 and be ready exactly when the need for the solution would peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Louis worked alone on the NPM solution (research, development, operations, sales, support, training, etc.) until the MVP was proven a success, then he convinced the rest of Netsurit that NPM was something that should be invested in. Louis was the visionary, evangelist, architect, developer, salesperson, and support that drove the initial success of NPM \u2013 drawing on various fields of experience from his 25-year career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to Louis\u2019 initiative and the success of NPM, Netsurit has now extended its range of services to developing and selling SaaS products \u2013 diversifying our customer base and service offering away from our traditional people-centric services to a much more scalable SaaS model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Globee Awards<\/strong>: <strong>What are the IT World Awards?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to the IT industry\u2019s premier excellence awards program IT World Awards\u00ae honouring achievements in every facet of the information technology industry. There is no other industry-wide recognitions program like this. This annual industry and peers program now has several major sections making this one of the most and only complete IT recognitions and achievements award program in the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All winners in this category: Chief Technology Officer of the Year | IT Cloud \/ SaaS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>GOLD GLOBEE\u00ae WINNER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Webscale | Santa Clara, CA USA | No customer has fallen victim to a cyber-attack ever. | Dr. James (Jay) Smith <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SILVER GLOBEE\u00ae WINNERS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fastly | SAan Francisco, CA USA | Fastly\u2019s Tyler McMullen pushes industry-wide innovation, collaboration at the edge | Tyler McMullen <br>Ittihad International Investment | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | Winning the SAP Cloud Transformation Award | Gigi Mathew Thomas <br><strong>BRONZE GLOBEE\u00ae WINNERS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/npm.netsurit.com\/\">Netsurit | Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa | Enabling businesses globally to monitor productivity of a remote workforce. |&nbsp;Louis&nbsp;de Klerk <\/a><strong><br><\/strong>Click2Cloud India Pvt.Ltd | Nagpur, India | Most active contributor in Alibaba\u2019s Most Valued Professional(MVP). | Rupal Shirpurkar <br>Comply Exchange | Kingswood, Banstead, Tadworth, United Kingdom | Industry Innovator for Information Reporting &amp; Withholding |<br>IT Support LA | Los Angeles, CA USA | Ability to adapt to market shifts <br>Student Shelter In Computers | Lahore, Pakistan | Abbas Shahid Baqir Youngest Entrepreneur Wins Arab Cyber Security Awards | Abbas Shahid Baqir <br>TAC Security | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India | TAC Security protects Fortune 500, large enterprises and governments globally | Trishneet Arora <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"622\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/netsurit.com\/en-za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Louis-Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3870\" style=\"width:245px;height:202px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/netsurit.com\/en-za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Louis-Headshot.jpg 756w, https:\/\/netsurit.com\/en-za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Louis-Headshot-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Louis de Klerk<\/strong> is an entrepreneur and consultant with 22 years\u2019 experience in the IT industry. He has a strong background software development, solution architecture, information security, data analytics and automation, and is the creator of the Netsurit Productivity Monitor.&nbsp;He has been deeply involved not only in the development of NPM as a product, but also assisting customers in deriving practical and actionable insights from NPM. Louis is passionate about how the ethical use of smart technology can transform the relationship between organisations and individuals \u2013 to the benefit of all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Empower Your Business with Netsurit\u2019s Innovative IT Solutions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discover how Netsurit\u2019s award-winning SaaS and IT solutions can transform your business productivity and security.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/netsurit.com\/en-za\/contact\/\"><strong>Contact Netsurit today<\/strong><\/a> to learn how we can help your organisation scale with confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid innovation in the face of the sudden workplace disruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,28,29,30,31,32,33],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-hybrid-work","tag-msp","tag-msp-south-africa","tag-npm","tag-productivity","tag-productivity-monitoring","tag-remote-work"],"acf":[],"_yoast_wpseo_title":"Netsurit CIO Wins Award for SaaS Innovation - 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