{"id":30548,"date":"2019-12-03T08:51:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T08:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=30548"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:54:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T09:54:11","slug":"decision-inc-expert-on-south-africa-becoming-a-cloud-friendly-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2019\/12\/03\/decision-inc-expert-on-south-africa-becoming-a-cloud-friendly-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision Inc expert on South Africa becoming a cloud-friendly environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With 77% of South African businesses currently using cloud services in their IT department, the local market is strongly positioned to usher in a new era of services to meet the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Wilhelm Greeff, Business Manager: Digital at Decision Inc, looks into how South Africa has become a cloud-friendly environment. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This growing momentum is aided by the availability of new multinational data centres in the country with more expected to be opened in the coming months. It is particularly around the Microsoft Office 365 productivity stack where corporates have been increasingly interested in making the transition. However, other solutions such as SharePoint Online, PowerApps, and Microsoft Teams have also proven to be popular growth choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many local\ncompanies are approaching cloud service providers for strategic advisory\nservices to assist them in migrating their existing solutions to an online\nenvironment. Mostly, businesses are seeing the benefit of not having to setup\nand maintain infrastructure, such as servers, themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is\nanticipated that those organisations situated in more remote areas will also be\neager to move because of the rarity of skills in those locations to perform\nthese functions on-premise. Furthermore, the fact that all information is\nalready backed up and available from anywhere there is Internet connectivity is\na massive drive for companies to transition to the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online world<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From our own\nexperience, we have had quick wins through implementations of SharePoint\nOnline. Many of these installations have been for companies that have had\non-premise SharePoint environments but never really used them to their full\npotential. These businesses have now adopted Office 365 licensing and are\nlooking to make use of the full suite of products available to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the\nbiggest attractions is the quick turn-around time and ease in which basic\nimplementations can be done in the cloud. This also frees up organisational\nresources to focus on delivering more strategic functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of this,\norganisations are looking at migrating everything from intranets, document\nmanagement, and storage, to human resource functions such as payroll, leave\nmanagement, and training, and even line of business systems to the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going hyper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though the\ncloud is gaining significant momentum locally, the next evolution of it\n(hyperscale computing) will become even more important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At its most\nbasic, hyperscale refers to achieving massive scale in computing. This is typically\nfor big data, cloud computing, and related services. Think of it as the cloud\ngoing to a more extreme level, unlocking significant additional value for\norganisations looking to benefit from technologies such as artificial\nintelligence, machine learning, automation, and the Internet of Things to name\njust a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, South\nAfrican companies are not necessarily taking the hyperscale into account when\nmaking the move to the cloud. For them, it is very much still a case of\nmigrating first regardless of the scaling capabilities available. Fortunately,\nservice providers such as Decision Inc. do take this into account especially\nwhen Azure-hosted applications have such potential for scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inevitably, it\nis about making the migration to the cloud as smooth and as beneficial as\npossible for companies across all industry sectors. The benefits this will\nunlock can significantly enable companies across the country to equip\nthemselves for the requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With 77% of South African businesses currently using cloud services in their IT department, the local market is strongly positioned to usher in a new era of services to meet the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Wilhelm Greeff, Business Manager: Digital at Decision Inc, looks into how South Africa has become a cloud-friendly environment. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":30549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4950,182,6,19,260,9059,10675,13,262],"tags":[1059,1002,2178,8879,10873,8877,453,11881],"class_list":["post-30548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-cloud","category-insights","category-regional-news","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-south-africa","category-thought-leadership","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-decision-inc","tag-fourth-industrial-revolution","tag-microsoft-office-365","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-powerapps","tag-sharepoint-online","tag-south-africa","tag-wilheim-greeff"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30548","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=30548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30553,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30548\/revisions\/30553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}