What role does/can an MSP play within your organisation
By Percy Mohale, Synthesis DevOps Engineer and input from Rodney Ellis, Rolf, Eusoph and Gareth Hone The role of the Managed Service Provider is to take responsibility for looking after the organisation’s infrastructure and tooling services, whether it be in cloud or on-premises. This frees up time from the organisation’s resources to accelerate business value […]
How to build better: Five lessons from building banking platforms
By Leandré Roux, Synthesis Senior Developer Having gone through the design and redesign of multiple Internet Banking systems over the years, I have noticed a few reoccurring themes. Most of our clients seem to deal with the same pains when modernising their platforms. Below I highlight the lessons, pitfalls, and successes that I have learned […]
Synthesis to partner with PCI Security Standards Council to help secure payment data worldwide
— As Council’s Newest Participating Organization Synthesis Software Technologies to Contribute to The Development of PCI Security Standards— Johannesburg, South Africa, September 30, 2021 — Synthesis, an innovative software development and consulting company, announced today that it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) as a new Participating Organization. Synthesis will work with the PCI […]
Synthesis Newsletter New Subscribers Competition Terms and Conditions: Cloud 2021
1. The Synthesis Newsletter New Subscribers giveaway (Competition) is a competition of Synthesis Software Technologies Pty Ltd (Company) and will governed by the terms and conditions set out in this document (Terms and Conditions). The Competition commences on 14 September and ends on 19 September. 2. The Competition is open to everyone over the age […]
You’re not solving the problem. You’re just building bathrooms.
By Kim Furman, Synthesis Marketing Manager Certain stories stick. In my case, the sticky story was shared with me in an MBA class in Madrid in 2019. An American Design Thinking Lecturer, whose face has blurred in my memory, gave over his story to our small class in one of those rooms purposely designed to […]
Technology to the Rescue
By Lesego Mabe One beautiful Sunday afternoon, I took a walk to my local laundromat expecting the usual pleasant trip. Little did I know things were about to take a turn for the strange. I watch as a car filled with passengers, except the front passenger seat, suddenly stops mid-intersection and makes a U-turn. Something […]
Six Olympic Lessons for Working Life
By Kim Furman, Synthesis Marketing Manager The Olympics are the coalescence of excellence across countries and cultures – a showcase of the best doing their best. However, this year is tinged with something different – a world shaken by a pandemic, a fervent longing to see human triumph and athletes without their fanbase to cheer […]
LEAN, Agile and DevOps: A vaccine for stalled digital transformation
By Jonty Sidney, Synthesis Cloud and DevOps Engineer Starting in July 1916, the British Expeditionary Force, under the leadership of Field Marshall Douglas Haig, began the battle of the Somme – a battle remembered as one of the deadliest of the first world war. Hundreds of thousands of men – British and German alike – […]
Tech without tertiary?
By Deborah Miller, Synthesis Talent Acquisition Specialist The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is undeniably changing the way careers are initiated, fostered and sculpted, specifically the way we as workforce specialists should be viewing applicants hoping to join our technological teams and the thought disruption required in hiring in technology. Wikipedia defines the Fourth Industrial Revolution […]
Synthesis and SA Harvest Partner to Create Access to Excess
Approximately 18 million South Africans will wake up today to yet another day of hunger and undernourishment. Hunger is an unrelenting and urgent problem across the globe. Yet SA Harvest Chairman, Gidon Novick, says: “Hunger is a solvable problem in this country.” Ten million tons of food go to waste every year. “We must create […]