Taking back the power: your guide to remote work
By Rodney Ellis, Synthesis Service manager With winter just around the corner and Eskom not being able to provide enough power to the country, there is not a lot of hope for a stable remote working environment. The anxiety that one little notification can produce in a team – stage 4 loadshedding has started – […]
The Future is Agile
By Daniel Sinek, Synthesis Marketing Intern Business is dynamic. Fortune 500 companies are successful because they can adapt responsively. One savvy way to join their ranks is by using an Agile methodology. The Agile methodology is a cyclical process that is best suited for dynamic business environments that evolve. Agile refers to an organisations’ ability […]
The most foolish technology predictions and can we avoid them?
The most foolish technology predictions and can we avoid them? By Kim Furman, Synthesis Marketing Manager If the quintessential experts get their predictions wrong, how can anyone else hope to get them right? Covid-19 has taught us to shy away from predictions – the future is an uncertain landscape. Yet some areas allow for more […]
AI, ethics and human rights
Archana Arakkal, Practice Lead: Intelligent Data Engineering Every day as an ML Engineer I seek new ways to provide value to further enhance our lifestyles through AI and while there are several problems seeking solutions and we may think that AI could be these solutions, very often a glass ceiling is reached where the limitations […]
Making Music from Your Data with ETL
By Kim Furman, Synthesis Marketing Manager Your steaming cup of coffee is warming your hand. You slowly sit down to start your workday and then suddenly your neighbour’s piercing car alarm goes off, again and again. Your good mood, concentration and the heat of your coffee seem to evaporate. Why does this throw you off […]
ETL Stories of Siloed Metrics
ETL By Kim Furman, Synthesis Marketing Manager If you are not measuring the right data, you are likely rewarding the wrong behaviour. Or you are not rewarding the right behaviour leading to poor business outcomes. This is what Adam Grant refers to as obvious insights. It seems obvious yet over the years I have come […]
10 Years of re:invent
10 Years of re:Invent By Chad Epstein, Synthesis Cloud Practise Lead “We’re actually just getting started.” – Adam Selipsky This year kicked off the 10-year anniversary edition of the AWS re:Invent conference and also marked the return of it being hosted in-person in Las Vegas after a virtual-only event in 2020. Another significant change was the delivery […]
Synthesis is Awarded AWS Consultancy Partner of the Year – SSA
[South Africa] – 1 December, 2021 – Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced this year’s EMEA AWS Partner winners. The winners are channel leaders in the AWS Partner Network (APN) who play a key role in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on the AWS Cloud. AWS awarded Synthesis Software Technologies, an innovative software […]
Synthesis Continues to Pioneer, Leading to Strong Results
On Tuesday, 30 November, Capital Appreciation (Capprec), a financial technology (“FinTech”) enterprise, announced its financial results for the six months ended 30 September 2021. Synthesis Software Technologies comprises the Software and Services segment of Capprec. The innovative software development and consulting company delivered a solid set of financial results, bolstered by excellent results in the […]
Deving For Good 2
By Kim Furman, Synthesis Marketing Manager On 5 March 2020, over 140 Synthesis developers, code enthusiasts and solution seekers came together to develop for a cause in the annual Synthesis Hackathon. Ten teams were tasked to create technology to tackle gender-based violence. The stage was set with just under 24 hours, hundreds of cups of coffee […]