Don’t get lost in tech lingo
By Hanno Brink, Machine Learning Engineer at Synthesis There are a plethora of technologies for companies to choose from that can add value, increase competitiveness and improve business processes. The point is to choose correctly rather than getting lost in the lingo. When it comes to cutting edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) […]
Why Salesforce? Why now?
By Synthesis Craig Leppan, Synthesis Business Development In 2019 one of our largest banking clients coordinated a meeting with the Salesforce Banking Head for our region. The message from him was interesting on a number of levels for Synthesis. South Africa and the EMEA region were very short of Salesforce skills and strong partners. The […]
Unlocking the Job Market
By Nomkhosi Nhlapo, Synthesis Office Administrator Mandela said “education is the key to success” yet not many students are afforded the luxury of studying further than matric. It is important that we teach our youth that it is okay to start somewhere. Your circumstances do not necessarily determine where you will end up. Work readiness […]
WFH: The other data breach
By Pierre Aurel, Synthesis Senior Consultant and Product Manager. COVID the Catalyst… This has been a year of disruption, confusion and now a new ‘normal’. COVID-19 is here for the foreseeable future, and that means humans need to adapt to new circumstances like Working from Home (WFH). Almost every industry has embraced this as an […]
Born in Adversity
By Howard Feldman, Head of Marketing & People Stories inspire us. They teach us, they entertain us, and they comfort us. From the beginning of time children have sat on their parents’ laps and listened to tales of wonder. It is in stories where we first encounter the evil in the world, where we learn […]
Stop spreading the news
By Kim Furman, Synthesis Marketing Manager Fake news might be an old-world problem but there are new world solutions to tackle it. There is nothing new about fake news other than the name used to describe it. Disinformation, misinformation, satire, parody, propaganda and manipulations of the truth are age old. John Adams, American president, confirms […]
Stop spreading the news (event write-up)
By Tiana Cline, Biz-tech Journalist Fake news might be an old problem but there are new-world solutions to tackle it. Synthesis Technologies, along with some well-known writers and journalists, took a deep dive into the state of media to discuss the fake news epidemic and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the potential remedy. When it comes […]
The gendered question
By Kim Furman, Synthesis Marketing Manger Women’s Day sets the tone for August. It encourages us to us examine the advances of women in society. It inspires article upon article on what it is like to be a woman in every sphere. What always interests me is that you never see the question of what […]
RDS Monitoring
By Matthew Crockett, Synthesis Digital and Emerging tech Principal Projects Custodian Problem Part of the modernisation of a Microsoft workload and deploying it to AWS will include migrating the database from an on-prem Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon RDS, with any of the database flavors that you could wish for. Monitoring these databases can be […]
Preparing your Microsoft .NET service to be hosted on the cloud
By Dean Maier, Synthesis Cloud Project Lead Whether you are already underway on your cloud migration journey and modernising your applications or are just looking to run an existing service in the cloud, this guide will assist you with some of the checklist items you should consider. Microsoft has two primary frameworks or SDK’s that are used for service development and these are namely .NET framework and .NET core. You can read more information here. Legacy […]