Adopting cloud at scale

Undoubtedly, cloud computing has become the new norm for any digitally enabled business. However, commonly accepted, well-documented and comprehensive strategies for cloud adoption remain lacking, with Gartner estimating that fewer than one third of enterprises have these in place. For those who do, more than 80% of enterprises surveyed as part of RightScale’s State of […]

The future of fintech is collaboration

The following excerpt comes from an interview of Michael Shapiro, Managing Director of Synthesis, by Business Day to understand why partnerships are vital for banking innovation.  “Many organisations are keen to provide better origination, product distribution and customer service to their market segments,” says Synthesis’ Managing Director Michael Shapiro. “Some are keen to adopt machine learning […]

What’s left to innovate?

Craig Leppan, Business Development Director of Synthesis, was interviewed by Business Day about fintech innovation and what new ideas banking might come up with this year.  South Africa has led the world in financial technology, but does the world really need another payment gateway or mobile wallet? We spoke to experts from companies that specialise […]

The learning process

Pierre Aurel, Senior Consultant at Synthesis, recently featured in the Financial Mail Office, talking about the learning process in corporate companies and embracing technology-driven learning for skills development and what it means in corporate South Africa. The following excerpt comes from the interview with Pierre:  “I have seen technical personnel like database administrators pursuing leadership […]

Synthesis uses their custom Kubernetes distribution Polaris for their 24-hour hackathon

Synthesis recently held its first 24-hour hackathon of 2019. The theme of this hackathon was building out tooling and ideas onto of the Synthesis custom Kubernetes distribution called Polaris. The Computer Vision team built a tool to turn scanned diagrams into vector drawings using AWS Rekognition. Then the Visual CI team built a handy tool […]

The 5 principles all successful cloud teams utilise

Make sure you are doing cloud for the right reasons Cloud can help your enterprise accelerate your time-to-market for key new products and features. It can help you unlock your mountain of big data to personalise engagements with your customers in real time. It can lower your IT cost base and streamline your application ops […]

Recent IDC report highlights enhanced business value through Amazon Web Services

Darryl Govender, Synthesis’ Head of Cloud Consulting shares his insights on the IDC’s report on Fostering business and organisational transformation to generate business value with Amazon Web Services: “Customers’ increased expectations of always-on systems strongly advocate for the use of cloud-enabled hyperscale technologies. Companies leveraging DevOps approaches on AWS, for example, are able to deliver […]

Cloud security needs scaled learning & a shared responsibility model

The following excerpt comes from an interview of Jared Naude, Software Engineer of Synthesis, by ITWeb. “As businesses migrate to cloud, they are not putting the foundational security controls in place, such as identity and access management, and logging and monitoring. This often means that when a security incident occurs, there are no logs or information which […]

The Tortoise and the Hare, Enterprise vs Startup

Once upon a time there was a tortoise. And its name was Kodak. The end. Unfortunately for Kodak, this wasn’t a fairy tale and it didn’t have a happy ending. Kodak, at its peak, was selling 20 million film cameras a year. Kodak also invented a digital camera 16 years before they became mainstream. But […]