Transformation in 2024: The Right Approach to Cloud Adoption
In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses in South Africa face challenges in harnessing the true power of technology to meet client demands. As innovation continues to press forward, it is essential that businesses keep pace with technological advances. When it comes to moving to the cloud, for example, multicloud seems to be the strategy... Continue reading→
Revolutionising retail
For years, the industry has advocated for the benefits offered by Business Intelligence (BI), but many retailers are still struggling to get the most out of their data. As retail continues to evolve in a rapidly digitising world, companies are looking for different ways to use that data to attract and retain customers. Considering that... Continue reading→
Free eBook: Overcoming Adversity – A Learnership Story
In the face of South Africa's high youth unemployment, the imperative to upskill disadvantaged communities, and a shortage of software test automation engineers, iOCO took a bold step. This ebook shares the journey of their learnership, aiming to train young, unemployed graduates from a spectrum of backgrounds as software test automation engineers. A must-read for... Continue reading→
iOCO set to accelerate digital transformation of businesses across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East with Google Cloud
iOCO set to accelerate digital transformation of businesses across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East with Google Cloud Johannesburg, South Africa — iOCO, a global leader in transformative cloud solutions, is pleased to join Google Cloud Partner Advantage as a Google Cloud and Google Workspace Partner for the Sell and Service Engagement Models. This alliance... Continue reading→
Resolve automation complexity, eliminate missed SLAs with automation analytics, intelligence
Many organisations on digital transformation journeys are struggling with the automation of supporting business workloads. This is primarily due to increased complexity and the need to operate across multiple applications and platforms such as mainframes, distributed systems plus multiple cloud providers. “Improving automation maturity is essential to the success of these business transformations and it... Continue reading→
Single cloud strategy delivers immediate results
One of South Africa’s oldest – and largest financial services providers employs over 30 000 people and operates in 14 countries, including South Africa, Botswana, eSwatini, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe and China. As the company’s operations have grown, so has it’s IT footprint. The financial services provider ended up... Continue reading→
How to reduce disaster recovery readiness testing times by up to 75% with 80% fewer resources
Disaster recovery (DR) readiness is a necessity for today’s highly digitalised companies and an important item on any board agenda. CIOs must be able to prove, with full documentary evidence, that the business is operationally resilient from an IT perspective. This can turn out to be extremely difficult using partially automated and manually operated tests,... Continue reading→
Creating clarity from chaos – the art of successful IT separation in portfolio disposals
Mergers and acquisitions have become a common strategy for growth and transformation. As a result, companies often find themselves in situations where they need to divest or carve out a part of their organisation, and managing the IT and OT estate during this process can be a complex and daunting task. This makes it critical... Continue reading→
SA Home Loans’ Data Modernisation Journey with iOCO and Denodo
Working with data across various sources can be difficult at the best of times, especially when the data is in different formats and not presented in a logical way. Watch this video case study and hear how the team at SA Home Loans, together with iOCO and Denodo, collaborated to achieved effective strategies for managing... Continue reading→
Are retailers ready for Black Friday?
With Black Friday around the corner, South African retailers are gearing up for one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Unfortunately, most are ignoring a vital element in ensuring they are ready for the influx of shoppers, says Leela Putten, Performance and Security Testing Advisor at iOCO. Black Friday and Cyber Monday have... Continue reading→