The dangers of the ever-expanding tactical ball of string
by Steyn Basson When it comes to regulatory changes, solutions are often haphazardly compiled, leaving dangerous loose ends ready to unravel. Picture this: For the last few months you have been following reports of new regulatory reporting changes in the pipeline. There has been lots of uncertainty, with the majority of the institutions affected by […]
Post-Matric Packing List for Life
Synthesis congratulates all the 2019 matric participants on their awesome results. We are proud of South Africa’s youth and can’t wait to see who you become. As you embark on the next stage of your adventure, remember to pack wisely. Here is a list of some items you might want to consider putting in your […]
Three Skills for Life
By Jake Shepherd, Synthesis Co-founder and Technical Director The New Year is a period of introspection and renewal and this explains the widespread tradition of resolutions. However, did you know that studies have shown that less than 25% of people actually stay committed to their resolutions after just 30 days, and only 8% accomplish them? […]
Saying yes to crazy ideas
By: Howard Feldman, Consultant for Synthesis The term “artificial intelligence” or AI has crept in our lexicon without many of us having noticed. Along with words like “cloud,” “scale” and “data analytics”, there seems to be an acceptance that they are going to be important, and that even if we don’t fully understand them, that […]
AWS re:Invent 2019: Parting Thoughts
By: Jared Naude Amazon Web Service’s annual re:Invent conference took place last week in Las Vegas, Nevada and attracted over 65 000 attendees from around the world. Over 2 800 sessions including 4 keynotes were held across 7 venues where a total of 77 new announcements were made – ranging from computation, networking, security, storage […]
2019: A Year in Review
By Michael Shapiro Every individual, each family and all companies will have had their own 2019 experience. And whereas they might all be impacted by circumstances particular to them, our tendency is still to try and arrive at collective consensus: How was the year for all of us? On a personal level, the year has […]
Three people-focused steps for adopting cloud at scale
By Darryl Govender, Head of Cloud Services, Synthesis Software Technology Larry Bossidy, the former Chairman and CEO of Honeywell International Inc., captured what it takes to successfully execute strategy when he said, “Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.” He emphasised the critical role […]
Ten Key Compliance Trends in South African (and African) Financial Institutions
By Steyn Basson Regulatory reporting has grown in profile over the last number of years, with more budget and more employees dedicated to compliance activities than ever before. Having been involved in the compliance space for more than a decade in some form or another, we have identified ten key compliance characteristics and trends in […]
Synthesis measures happiness at the AWS Summit
By Marais Neethling Can an app measure happiness? Synthesis Software Technologies (Synthesis) decided that the annual AWS Cape Town Summit, which they exhibited at and co-sponsored, was the ideal time to test this. They decided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Amazon Rekognition image and video analysis platform by measuring the happiness of visitors who […]
Why Getting Fit for Cloud is about more than just the bike!
By: Craig Leppan, Head of Business Development at Synthesis Technologies The #GetFitForCloud journey starts now! October leaves six crucial months of training to get your Business Solution into the AWS Cape Town Data Centre by March 2020. Like preparing for any race, it is about more than just the actual cycling or running on the […]