{"id":25767,"date":"2019-05-03T10:04:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T09:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=25767"},"modified":"2019-07-24T11:45:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T10:45:34","slug":"the-cloud-explained-for-business-what-is-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2019\/05\/03\/the-cloud-explained-for-business-what-is-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"The cloud explained for business: What is the cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is a big cost for any business, if not the biggest. This is due to the direct reliance between business performance and business applications. For example, a slow Point of Sale system at a retailer or cumbersome customer information interface at a branch office effectively slows down the time of the transaction. Well-oiled technology systems improve the speed of business.<\/p>\n<p>Riaan Bekker, Sales Force manager at Thryve, talks about &#8216;The Cloud 101&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ofn7MbZFlUg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ofn7MbZFlUg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is a big cost for any business, if not the biggest. This is due to the direct reliance between business performance and business applications. For example, a slow Point of Sale system at a retailer or cumbersome customer information interface at a branch office effectively slows down the time of the transaction. Well-oiled technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":25769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4950,182,6,14],"tags":[8382,9328,8383],"class_list":["post-25767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-cloud","category-insights","category-video","tag-riaan-bekker","tag-the-cloud-101","tag-thryve"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27655,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25767\/revisions\/27655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}