Outsourced Microsoft Software Development in South Africa

Why South Africa?

For many software projects across US, UK, European and Australian regions especially, South Africa represents a unique alignment of quality talent, central time-zone, English 1st language, familiar culture, constructive work ethic, and affordability – making it one of the only places where all these important attributes converge.

Complex software projects require more than just pairs of hands to perform a task – they require a partnership to interrogate and contribute to solutions on the table, proactively engage and take initiative in solving unexpected challenges.

This kind of partnership requires IQ, EQ and true collaboration and sadly, barriers in language, culture and time-zone have a knack for eroding true collaboration.

Why Haefele?

We believe effective software development starts with collaboration. True collaboration. Much like with the creative arts, music and film making, the outlier productions are the result of passionate, specialist professionals collaboratively weaving their expertise together, each sharpening their respective crafts. Software development at its best, is no different.

Our clients

"We have a longstanding relationship with Haefele, and in the almost 20 years that we’ve been working together, they’ve continued to bring valuable advice and knowledge through their experience."

Packaging Product Specialist - Tesco

“We’ve been really impressed with the work Haefele has been providing. We've been really happy with their capabilities, the high calibre of their team members and their willingness to deliver has been felt from day one.”

Chief Operating Officer – VicAsset

“Our internal developer was familiar with the quality of South African development teams, so we quickly realised Haefele would be a great fit for what we needed, with competitive rates, friendly time zone and no language barriers”.

Chief Operating Officer – VicAsset

“One of the great things about Haefele is that we have dedicated resources working on our project who we were able to choose through an interview process to match skillset and culture. They feel very much like part of our team.”

Product Owner - VicAsset

“The Haefele Team feel like they're already a part of Tesco. They never fail to impress, from their high development standards, demonstrable technical knowledge and honest advice.”

Packaging Product Specialist - Tesco

“The system modernisation made our artwork approval even more efficient and facilitated transparency and collaboration between all involved parties. After completing the migration to Azure, we saw a significant decrease in infrastructure cost.”

Packaging Product Specialist - Tesco

"Following the BAMS Development with Haefele, we've seen 3,300 users onboarded. Tesco’s team is spending significantly less time on admin tasks and user training and saved a 6-figure cost-saving over 2 years.“

Former Lead Brand Manager for digital assets - Tesco

"We chose Haefele to develop our BAMS System given their long-running experience working in Tesco across numerous projects over the last 10 years. They understand our business and truly work as an extension of our team.“

Former Lead Brand Manager for digital assets - Tesco

How we work

Full-service or Augmented teams

Our partnerships often take the shape of a flexible full-service, cross-functional team providing BA, Architecture, Development and QA talent to deliver on an end-to-end project, or as a collaborative, augmented team, providing just the specific talent or skill missing around your table.

Experienced Agile Development

All our projects work towards the Agile methodology, engaging clients in varying industries at varying degrees of Agile maturity. Our SCRUM literate teams have come to enjoy assisting our clients in that journey towards the more iterative process, higher release frequency, and achieving shorter/faster steps towards business value.

Proven Low Developer
Churn

Developer churn is an important metric in your choice of software partner, not just their cost and quality. In fact, the rate of developer churn will drive your partner’s cost and quality – a software partner who cannot minimise developer churn, cannot maintain cost nor quality. We’re proud that as our team approaches 60 professionals, we record a mere 9 resignations over 14 years.

Specialist in Microsoft & Azure Stacks

As the technology landscape ever changes, we do engage in adjacent technologies, frameworks and languages that add value to the Microsoft & Azure offering, whether that be in Cloud services (AWS, Google) and other language sets (e.g. TypeScript, Python), although balanced to not be at the expense of our depth in Microsoft & Azure.

Offshore, Onshore, Hybrid & Travelling Teams

We realise that many projects benefit from an onshore or hybrid onshore/offshore team most expressed with an onshore Business Analyst able to engage stakeholders onshore while development and testing continue offshore in South Africa.

Challenges Beyond
Code

As we’ve seen with some of our clients, not all software needs point to development resource – and sometimes the partnership is less about writing code, and more about improving the challenges upstream and downstream of that code and adding value in the broader software process.

Our offering

Software Partnerships

Talented Business Analysis, Development & QA
Specialist in Microsoft & Azure Stacks
Aligned Language, Culture, Time-Zone
Full-Service or Augmented Teams
Experienced Agile Development
Proven Low Developer Churn

Technical Audits

Technical Consulting

Opportunity & Gap Analysis
Challenges Beyond Code
Strategy & Process Consulting
Agile & SCRUM Coaching
Release & Change Management Consulting
Architecture & Code Oversight

Meet the team

Directors Business Development Operations Business Analysts Developers QA Engineers Support

ALAN HAEFELE
Managing Director

GUY COLEMAN
Technical Director & Architect

SHAHN MIDDLETON
Technical Director & Architect

MONIQUE GELDENHUYS
Operations Director

NICHOLAS GORDON
Business Development
United States

KATE GOREY
Business Development
UK

JAMIE-LEE HAVENGA
Office Coordinator

CHRISTY HAEFELE
Social & Community Engagement

ANDROUX HAVENGA
Network Admin & DevOps Engineer

JEAN-LUC ROELS
Accounts and Operations Administrator

JONATHAN BALMER
Lead Business Analyst

BODHI MIDDLETON
Business Analyst

ANDREW WICKS
Business Analyst

ASHLEIGH FORSTER
Business Analyst

RYAN MEIRING
Product Owner & Business Analyst

IVAN BOCK
Business Analyst

KYLE ROYCROFT
Business Analyst

DANIE STRYDOM
Developer

RENE’ JOHANNES
Developer

DARIAN LEONARD
Developer

STUART BACKLUND
Developer

ALTUS BAARD
Developer

VINCENT ENGLISH
Developer

HENRY BARTOSCH
Developer

GREG WRIGHT
Developer

RIHAN MEIJ
Developer

GRANT FORSTER
Developer

DANIEL COETZEE
Developer

ZAK BRITS
Developer

GAVIN LI-HUNT
Developer

PAUL DE KLERK
Developer

BRADLEY DE KLERK
Developer

MATTHEW BEVIS
Developer

JOHAN BOTHA
Developer

JONATHAN GEORGEU
Developer

SIMON GASSON
Developer

HARLEY FERGUSON
Developer

CARLOS DE ALLENDE
Developer

ANDRE FOURIE
Developer

JOSHUA SEMPLE
Developer

MARIUS PRUIS
Developer

RIEGARDT STEYN
Developer

JOHAN JONCK
Developer

ANDROUX HAVENGA
Network Admin & DevOps Engineer

KEABETSWE MPHUTI
Lead Office 365 & Power Platform Developer

CLINT HILL
Lead QA Engineer

RICKY WILSON
QA Engineer

WAYNE WILSON
QA Engineer

LUCKY MTHEMBI
QA Engineer

RICHARD SEKWANE
QA Engineer

TYLER DEACON
QA Engineer

SIYAMCELA MADOKWE
QA Engineer

TERI JACOBS
Support Consultant

KIERAN MOORE
Support Consultant

Looking forward to connecting with you.

We’d love to set up a call to understand your current challenges and share some of our learnings to help you on your journey. Reach out below and we’ll be in touch in the next 24 hours.