SA’s first company to achieve AWS Advanced Consulting Partner status in Africa and the Middle East
MEDIA RELEASE SYNTHESIS Tuesday, 25 April 2017: Synthesis Software Technologies, today announced that it has achieved Advanced status as an AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partner. Synthesis’ Advanced Consulting Partner status is the result of the company’s significant investment developing the technical resources and AWS expertise necessary to deploy and manage customer solutions on the […]
JSE Listed Capital Appreciation acquires 100 percent of Synthesis
On 16th February 2017, JSE listed Capital Appreciation Limited (“CTA”) announced that agreements have been concluded to acquire 100 percent of Synthesis Software Technologies (“Synthesis”), subject to certain conditions precedent. Following the acquisition Synthesis, a highly specialised software development, consulting and integration services company, will remain an independent operating entity within the Capital Appreciation Group. […]
Jogging Through Germany With The Help of Synthesis
Jabulani Mokeoena from Orange Farm was one of the Afrika Tikkun beneficiaries who was selected to go to Germany in Septmeber. Jabulani tells us about it. Jabulani has been part of Arekopaneng Centre since he was in Grade 4 in 2006. “My passion for athletics begun when I did my first race and I […]
Functional fun with TypeScript Generics
This weekend I decided to try my hand at TypeScript. The goal I had was to implement a curry function which can curry other functions with variable length arguments. Although this is a trivial exercise in JavaScript, i was interested in what it would take to implement a version in TypeScript which would be able […]
Synthesis and AWS Executive Breakfast Discussion.
On the 22nd of September, CIO’s and Chief Architects of Digital Channels and other divisions of Financial Services Institutions converged at the African Pride Hotel, Melrose Arch for an executive Synthesis and AWS cloud discussion. This co-hosted event started with an insightful and humorous presentation from the ever dynamic and energising Gavin Sharples. This was […]
Synthesis visits NWU Computer Science Grads
On Friday, 30 September, Synthesis visited the school for Computer Science and Information Systems of the Potchefstroom Campus of the North West University (NWU PUK) to assess the projects of the honours graduates. There were quite a variety of topics and projects on display from green IT projects to Internet of Things (IoT) home automation, […]
Making a Difference on Mandela Day – The Synthesis Way
One of the central challenges facing South Africa is that youth unemployment statistics currently sit at 38%. Most South African children and youth living in impoverished communities are struggling to continue or complete their education and to have a positive sense of self and place in the world. For the past 20 years, Afrika Tikkun […]
Synthesis Team Building Hackathon
Following on our monthly “push” challenges and our previous 2 mini hackathons, it was time for our big 12 hour hackathon. The day started off with the team arriving early in the morning to enjoy breakfast while listening to and discussing potential ideas that could be built during the hackathon. After the listening to the […]
Saving the day by starting today
Parkinson’s triviality principle: It was 1957, all the right people were gathered in a committee, they had one job, approve design for a nuclear power plant. So they did what every man in their situation would do, they scheduled a meeting. As with all meetings, it was very productive, everyone agreed, no-one spoke out of […]
Synthesis Hackathon 2
Following on our monthly “push” challenges where we challenge our team to change their habits to become more healthy or to handle stress more effectively. Our push challenge this month is focused on productivity and how we can be more productive as both individuals and as a team. The Synthesis team met up after hours […]