I-Net Bridge was established in 1990 as a joint venture between stockbroker, Ivor Jones Roy (now Deutsche Securities) and newspaper publisher, Times Media Limited (TML). It currently forms part of AVUSA Limited Digital Division, a leading player in the South African media and entertainment businesses.

Celebrating 21 years in 2011, I-Net Bridge has grown to be one of South Africa’s preferred electronic providers of accurate, timely and quality content. With annual revenue in excess of R130 million and a workforce of 144, I-Net Bridge has a client base of more than 300 leading institutions, spanning more than 3500 desktops. I-Net Bridge’s inventive applications are currently used by 83% of locally-based top rated Financial Mail equity analyst winners. (Source: 2011 FM Analyst Awards).

I-Net Bridge provides a wide range of investment products comprising real-time and historical market data, packaged with breaking news and powerful analytical tools, allowing investors to make expedient, informed decisions.

As a leader in its field, I-Net Bridge operates on the values of unprecedented innovative solutions, meaningful data and client service excellence. Our client services teams frequently receive accolades, ensuring our services are backed up by access to dedicated account managers, intensive training and access to help desks.

Its flagship financial products include I-Net Station and I-Graph, with I-Net Equity Consensus Forecast numbers seen as an industry standard amongst analysts and portfolio managers. I-Net Bridge offers its clients live prices, data, sophisticated research tools and breaking news from South Africa and more than 30 major international markets. Morningstar is I-Net Bridge’s provider of choice for international indices, equities, commodities and forex information.

With a strategic objective to be the preferred provider of online content and innovative solutions to the investment, business and retail communities, I-Net Bridge has recently embarked on an international drive to expand its footprint outside South Africa with its desktop applications. The drive began by providing African content to the rest of the world, with I-Net Bridge having comprehensive datasets from 15 major African market centres including Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius and Botswana.

In line with today’s fast-paced digital era, I-Net Bridge uses a combination of its own network and the Internet to deliver the bulk of its current information from local and global sources. The Content Solutions business, launched in 1997, began providing business content to both corporates’ and government. Besides delivering local and international news, company and financial data, online editions of newspapers to intranets as well as extranets and websites, this business successfully launched the first of I-Net Bridge’s mobile offerings. I-Net Mobile was the first step into the mobile retail market. Later this year will see the release of I-Net Invest, our first product specifically targeting the day trader market.

I-Net Hosting services are aggressively pursuing a best of breed data centre and virtualisation strategy to guarantee nothing but the best customer service. We have identified private and public cloud services to be the next wave that will drive even greater levels of data mobility. Our vision is to deliver to the needs of our clients through innovation and offer a value proposition by delivering unique value offerings at competitive prices, by providing first class service and customised solutions.

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