Amazon’s EC2 Came Home
In 2006, Amazon Web Services’ key component the Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2 as it is more commonly known, was developed by a small team in a satellite development office in Cape Town, South Africa. Today, 22 April 2020, EC2 came home with AWS expanding its global footprint with the opening of the AWS Africa […]
Synthesis and GirlCode Partner to Empower Women through Technology
The year 2019 ended with a staggering unemployment rate of 29.1%, with unemployment being higher among women than men. The situation is expected to deteriorate further, given the spread of COVID-19. The impact can already be seen on job searchers, though search engine Adzuna which shows a 7.3% reduction in job postings. In March, part-time […]
Synthesis and Afrika Tikkun Services celebrate the virtual graduation of 23 learners
Synthesis, together with Afrika Tikkun Services awarded certificates to 23 unemployed youth at a graduation ceremony held virtually on Tuesday 7 April, 2020. The learners, who reside in disadvantaged communities across Johannesburg, successfully completed Synthesis’ learnership programme, graduating with an NQF Level 5 in IT Systems Development, accredited by the Media Information and Communication Technologies […]
Deving for Good
Synthesis is excited to be hosting its annual hackathon on 5 March where Synthesis’ over one hundred employees will spend just under 24 hours straight developing incredible technology in the form of a minimum viable product (MVP). This year Synthesis dedicates the hackathon to social good. One of the greatest challenges that South Africa faces […]
Synthesis cycles for a cause
Synthesis Software Technologies, RegTech, Digital and Emerging Tech and Cloud specialist, is excited to announce that together with clients, they will be taking up their bikes to cycle for a cause. On 8 March, Synthesis and friends will cycle the Cape Town Cycle Challenge in aid of The Children’s Hospital Trust. The Trust advances child […]
Synthesis Excels, Again
Monday, November 18th, 2019, Capital Appreciation (Capprec) announced its interim financial results for the six months ended 30 September 2019. The entity operates in two business segments – Payments & Payment Infrastructure (“Payments”) and Software and Services (“Services”). Synthesis comprises the Services segment. It was reported that Synthesis continued its track record of 31% compound […]
Webinar | Why being down for a minute in the IOT data world is a big problem
Why being down for a minute in the IOT data world is a big problem Time: 15:00 | Date: 14 November Join us for this complimentary webinar with Synthesis’ Nick Walker and Discovery Vitality Group’s Jesse Leresche as they reveal how not to go down in the new world of exploding data driven by IOT and […]
Synthesis joins Confluent Partner Programme
Financial technology consulting company Synthesis Software Technologies (Synthesis) is pleased to announce joining the Confluent Partner Programme as a value-added reseller. Confluent is the developer of a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams. The founders of Confluent created Apache Kafka, an open source technology that […]
Synthesis announces HashiCorp Partnership
Specialised financial technology company Synthesis Software Technologies (Synthesis) is pleased to announce a partnership with Hashicorp. Founded by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in 2012, HashiCorp is a leading multi-cloud automation software company that is based in San Francisco and has the goal of creating the Cloud Operating Model, revolutionising data centre management across application […]
Into the unknown
Synthesis is divided. There are those who openly admire Team Synthesis – Into the Unknown as they head to Rodrigues, and there are those who shake their head in wonderment that seemingly smart, rational people would be prepared to head to a remote island in the Indian Ocean for Expedition Africa (EA), where they will […]