Synthesis Software Technologies announces Cloudflare partnership

Specialised financial technology company Synthesis Software Technologies (Synthesis) is pleased to announce a partnership with leading Internet performance and security company Cloudflare. Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks, which powers more than ten trillion requests per month, accounting for nearly ten percent of all Internet requests. Cloudflare’s network has had a point of […]

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 […]

AWS launches innovative Pop Up Loft in Johannesburg

Following the success of similar events that have taken place globally, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, has this month launched a Pop-up Loft in Sandton, Johannesburg. The Pop-up Loft is a space created for customers and enterprises to learn more about emerging innovation around cloud computing. The […]

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 […]

Synthesis cloud specialists to speak at ITWeb Cloud Summit

The 2019 ITWeb Cloud Summit, taking place on 12 February at The Campus in Bryanston Johannesburg, will provide a platform for cloud experts, researchers and industry practitioners to exchange ideas, discuss new advances in the strategy and practice of cloud computing, and identify emerging trends to define the future of cloud computing in SA. Titled […]

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 […]

AFGRI Group Holdings and Synthesis form joint venture to unlock agricultural innovation

The agreement will enable the accelerated development of innovative solutions in the agricultural-technology (AgTech) space in South Africa and Africa. Leading agricultural services company AFGRI Group Holdings and specialised financial technology company Synthesis Software Technologies are proud to announce the conclusion of a joint-venture (JV) agreement. The relationship between the two companies began in 2014 […]

Synthesis Software Technologies provides much-needed support for families and young children

The fintech company’s annual charity drive delivers food, toiletries and school shoes to vulnerable families and grade R children. Home-grown South African financial-technology company Synthesis held their annual charity drive on 6 and 7 December this year, with employees distributing parcels to vulnerable families and grade R children in Alexandra and Braamfontein respectively. Twenty-five vulnerable […]