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Why CentreBlue?
We engineer digital and marketing. Our core team and stakeholders have been together for more than a decade. We've won awards and we've delivered some huge projects for global companies. We thrive on solving complex business, marketing and development challenges with elegant and cost-effective solutions. We believe in open, honest communication, and transparency. We are very good at what we do.
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MARKETING
We provide full marketing and agency services. We specialise in Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies and execution, creating and reinventing brands, products and services and taking them through the full lifecycle - from inception to full maturity.
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ADVERTISING | CAMPAIGNS
Our award-winning team will conceptualise, create, place, monitor and analyse your advertising across all digital touchpoints.
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PUBLISHING
Over the last decade we have implemented digital solutions for some of South Africa's biggest publishers. We utilise a variety of publishing platforms (best fit from pocket to reader), but prefer PlayFair for Publishers.
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APPS
Our core strength as a development team is the ability to develop bespoke applications tailored to your very specific need. Let us know what you want, and we'll design it, and develop it efficiently and cost-effectively.
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WEBSITES
We have done many websites over the last decade - all of them very cost-effective, some of them award-winning. Ours is a turnkey solution. We take care of everything - from concept to strategy, from design to development, from on-going search engine optimisation/marketing (SEO/SEM), to usage analysis. From optimisation to hosting. Give us the web project, and we'll give you the keys.
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MOBILE SITES
We have developed bespoke mobile sites for some of South Africa's most-visited digital destinations, and we have completed intricate, and complicated mobile projects.
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SOCIAL
We have an integrated social solution which amplifies your corporate presence and marketing message across relevant digital touch points. Our community managers are experienced on all platforms, and can communicate in a tone-of-voice relevant to your company's personality.
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CONSULTING
Our principal consultant and founder is a digital pioneer in South Africa, and has more than 25 years experience at the highest level, working with firms like IBM, Oracle and Accenture on multi-billion rand global projects. He has founded and funded four start-ups in the digital space over the last 17 years, and has successfully exited three companies. (Syncom, Personal Wealth Manager and Scoreline.com).
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how to find us
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Steenberg Office Park
Silverwood Close
Constantia
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E-mail: john@centreblue.com
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Pragma Full agency service
Website development, videos, animation, CRM, campaigns, SEO and strategy.
Ground Labs Website development and maintenance, SEO, data analytics and marketing services.
With offices in the USA, UK, Europe, Australia and Asia, Ground Labs enables organizations across the world to discover and remediate all of their data across multiple types and locations.
Swivel Secure Full marketing function outsourced in its entirety to CentreBlue.
Swivel Secure is a global company specialising in cyber-security services for enterprises and institutions in more than 54 countries. We are embedded with Swivel, driving and executing marketing strategy and tactics across all online and traditional marketing platforms.
DBS Software, application development; GTM strategic consulting.
Voted as the Best Bank in the world in 2019, DBS is a Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation.
IBM Partner management, consulting and previously platform integration development with global third parties.
International Business Machines Corporation is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries.
On Key Brand and Identity creation, website and application, turnkey digital marketing services.
On Key offers smarter Enterprise Asset Management with one of the world's leading EAM systems, managing 1 871 800+ items for over 5000 companies.
iafrica.com Publishing platform, website, mobile
We built, manage and develop for one of South Africa's oldest and most visited news and general content platforms. Iafrica.com sits on the PlayFair for Publishers platform.
playfair Development
Playfair is an enterprise content and marketing management suite which CentreBlue is developing in conjunction with a private equity firm. The initial two modules of the system have been deployed at clients Primedia (Playfair for Publishers), and Etailer, Reebok, Columbia Sportswear, Kingsley Heath, Gamo, Innov8, Rockport.
Columbia Sportswear Full agency service +
e-commerceDeveloped integrated e-commerce store. E-newsletters. E-marketing.
Ernst & Young Platform for partner management (security solutions) and event application.
Ernst & Young is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom. EY is one of the largest professional services firms in the world and is one of the "Big Four" accounting firms.
CyberArk Information security partner integration management.
CyberArk is a NASDAQ listed traded information security company offering Privileged Account Security. The company's technology is utilised primarily in the financial services, energy, retail, healthcare and government markets.
Inov-8 E-commerce, campaigns, SEO
Inov-8's products for the committed athletes are designed to be lightweight, minimal and functional. We developed, manage and maintain their South Africa e-commerce platform.
Medical Defence Union (UK) Consulting, Integration
Implementing Oracle Database, taking digitised records online, digital strategy, specifications for future development.
Murray and Roberts Consulting
Workshops on creating digital interfaces across full client spectrum, strategy.
Old Mutual Consulting
Impact assessment on legacy digital systems during Oracle migration and implementation.
WORLDSTEEL Application development, website development
World Steel Association, often abbreviated as worldsteel, is the international trade body for the iron and steel industry. The association represents over 160 steel producers, national and regional steel industry associations and steel research institutes.
ID.Johannesburg Turnkey event organisation, all digital and marketing services.
ID.Johannesburg is the premier event in the South African security and identity governance landscape. This is the fourth year CentreBlue will organise and manage the event - including sponsor generation, marketing and digital agency services.
Centrify Partner management, marketing services, events, digital (MEA)
Over half the Fortune 100, the world's largest financial institutions, intelligence agencies, and critical infrastructure companies, all trust Centrify to stop the leading cause of breaches - privileged credential abuse.
Orange Mobile development
As the ScoreLine developers, our team created the world's first mobile service and app for live cricket scoring in the late nineties. In partnership with Siemens as our primary client, this app and service was rolled out with Orange to enterprise clients and customers in India and Australia.
SAAMA Website, e-newsletters, SEO
In partnership with our client Pragma, we developed a website for the annual conference of SAAMA (The Southern African Asset Management Association). This included promoting the event through digital channels like e-newsletters and social.
Oracle (UK, Europe) Consultant
Involved in enterprise projects on the Solutions side. Primary role is interfacing between technical implementation teams and digital requirements across the full spectrum of digital touchpoints.
RELX Group Consulting, development
Migrating Butterworths Legal Directory from Oracle to mySQL, taking it online, the automated creation of websites for listed UK lawyers.
Reebok Full agency service + e-commerce
Developed website, and developed and implemented and maintaining Reebok e-commerce store. Campaign creation, e-marketing.
Deutsche Bank (UK, Netherlands) - Consulting, Development
Conceptualised, created and developed the Personal Wealth Management digital platform. Ongoing consultation around digital.
ScoreLine.com web, mobile, feed system, platform
One of South Africa's first apps running on mobile and web. Originally developed as a low bandwidth, real-time content delivery system, it evolved into a platform for live broadcasting. The platform was sold to an international media and technology company, but we retained the rights to the brand.
Siemens Joint venture, development, platform. mobile and applications, content
We rolled out mobile applications on the ScoreLine platform for a variety of Siemens enterprise clients. Siemens was also the anchor sponsor for the ScoreLine.com website's live coverage of cricket test cricket delivered via mobile feeds.
Telkom Platform, development
Telkom went onto our PlayFair Content Platform, which managed and underpinned the purchase and distribution of all their web and mobile music and ringtone content assets. Bespoke development included integration with WASPS, integration with mobile content service providers, and integration with music labels.
Accenture Platform for partner management (security solutions) and event application.
Accenture is a global management consulting and professional services firm that provides strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations services
Wine Concepts E-marketing
Database marketing, e-newsletters.
D4D E-commerce, Web development
D4D uses sport as a platform to raise awareness and funds for children's charities. CentreBlue developed the website, as well as the e-commerce platform.
Concierge E-commerce website and platform
Concierge facilitates the purchase and shipping of excellent South African wines globally.
PWC Southern Africa Platform for partner management (security solutions) and event application
PWC Southern Africa provides industry-focused assurance, advisory and tax services to public, private and government clients in all markets.
Fiduceum BlockChain Platform and Applications
Fiduceum provides a platform for BlockChain applications. CentreBlue plays a pivotal role in the platform design, architecture and development, and is working with longtime partners in Greece, and venture capitalists in New York to bring the platform to market.
IAM Application Development
The Institute of Asset Management is the professional, worldwide body for those involved in the acquisition, operation and care of physical assets, especially critical infrastructure. CentreBlue has developed the IAM's event management application.
Dimension Data Campaigns, partner and co-bid management
Dimension Data is a company specialising in information technology services, maintaining operations on every inhabited continent. Dimension Data focuses on services including IT consulting, technical and support services, and managed services.
Soterion Key Partner Management services and consulting
Soterion's entire business is focused on building Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) products and services that are a pleasure to use. Software-as-a-Service, Managed Service and On-Premise Software are the three main pillars underpinning the Soterion GRC offering.
CHINASTEEL Social Application development and integration, related website development.
China Steel Corporation is the largest integrated steel maker in Taiwan. Its main steel mill is located in Siaogang District, Kaohsiung. The corporation and its sister companies are administrated under the CSC Group.
Henderson Brand and Identity creation, website and application, turnkey digital marketing services.
Henderson Design Group is a residential interior design firm with offices in Hawaii and San Francisco.
Dermalogica Website, E-commerce, full agency service, applications
We built and implemented an e-commerce platform in 2014 with advanced CRM, channel and loyalty program features. The platform also had an affiliate reward system for retail partners. We built the platform and related applications in 2 frenetic months, working with an incredible derma team in place - at the time.
Reebok Crossfit E-commerce, campaigns, website, applications, SEO
We developed the Reebok website, which eventually was combined with the Reebok e-commerce site on the Magento and Druid platforms. Reebok was our partner E-tailer's first e-commerce client - one of the first online stores in SA.
Pick n Pay Digital, development
Developed the southern hemisphere's first fully functioning music store (Pick n Play), storing, protecting and serving more than 18 million songs and ringtones in a low bandwidth environment.