Tag: software as a service (SaaS)

With cyber threats rising and compliance standards tightening, organisations face growing pressure to revisit their data protection strategies. The era of treating backups as a box-ticking exercise is over. Backups only matter if you can recover fast and reliably. Resilience today must include both backup and recovery. Whether you are a bank, retailer or healthcare provider, you must assume that one day your systems will fail.

Everyone understands that, in order for a retailer to be competitive, it must invest in the best technology to remove friction for customers and employees. Retailers must also provide the agility and capability to take advantage of big events such as Black Friday, improve operational efficiencies, and build long-term customer loyalty. However, many retailers have discovered that a technology solution decision is far more complex than it would seem. Therefore, instead of simply adopting new technologies, they should be investing in self-enablement.

The first quantum computer was created almost three decades ago, in 1998. Yet, the topic still seems futuristic to many. While its applications remain unknown to most, quantum computing combines computer science, physics, and mathematics. It provides solutions the world has been trying to find for eons – and those it doesn’t yet know it needs.

BBanking goes far deeper than managing financial transactions. Organisational, compliance and governance layers are demanding and complex. From merchants to customer onboarding, relationship banking and internal agreements, these layers require effective management. Workflow management must also be handled securely and with certainty. This ensures both the bank and its customers are protected.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and other tech are fast becoming the biggest sales enablers on the block. Sales is a pressure game. You’re juggling leads, chasing targets, and dealing with the endless cycle of follow-ups. But high-performers don’t just work harder - they work smarter by leveraging tech that delivers results.

In the dynamic landscape of contemporary business, team-based work and cross-functional projects are rapidly replacing traditional organisational structures, with an increasing number of leading-edge organisations embracing collaboration-driven models.

In recent years many more organisations have embraced Software as a Service (SaaS), particularly Backup as a Service (BaaS) as more and more workloads have migrated into the cloud. In Africa, this migration to the cloud is being led by smaller enterprises without the legacy infrastructure and investment, whereas the larger businesses have shifted critical workloads in order to gain agility advantages.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software has seen rapid growth in recent years following the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though it can be deployed quickly, ERP systems are complex and require significant computing resources, which can be expensive to acquire and maintain in-house.

Storing data in the cloud is generally smart, and many organisations are already doing so, often without realising it. Enormous amounts of information reside in cloud-powered services such as Office365, Google Workspace, Dropbox, OneDrive, Slack and so on. If a business uses some type of Software-as-a-Service product, some of its data is already in cloud storage.

The world of financial services is changing – for the better. A multitude of virtual banking and payment options, cardless and accountless services, and now, Banking as a Service (BaaS) are making financial inclusion the norm instead of a privilege.