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Terms and conditions DO apply – tales of an online store builder By DR Howard Rybko, CDO at Syncrony Digital In my experience, terms and conditions (T&Cs) are one of the last ‘to-do’s’ in the rush before a new online store goes live. Many online merchants think T&C’s are a chore. They palm the job off to some sucker in their team, which leads to a last minute find & replace of some pinched T&Cs or else a kick down the road to a legal person somebody knows. Either choice caries too much risk for my liking. If you want…
Leading provider of end-to-end digital services and solutions Obsidian Systems is leveraging its near 25-year market experience to ensure businesses secure ROI in cloud services, amid increasing business uncertainty fuelled by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. From its modest beginnings in dabbling with Unix and Linux systems, the business (driven by engineering experts) has gone on to successfully explore and extract the advantages offered by Open Source technology infrastructure. This has proven a solid foundation for what has emerged as a market-leading provider of digital architecture for businesses. Open Source technology has evolved and today, the focus for businesses in South…
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has flipped the traditional ‘at-the-office 9-5’ convention on its head and today many businesses are facilitating the work-from-home model – which has also served as a catalyst for increased cloud adoption and services implementation says Obsidian Systems MD Muggie van Staden. The company, a leading provider of end-to-end digital services and solutions, was one of the first organisations in South Africa to bring the Open Source offering Hadoop to the market. It was also one of the first to investigate cloud and opted for AWS. “AWS was our decision, we had to pick one and we’re…
eCommerce is exploding and leading Johannesburg-based e-commerce and software development specialist Syncrony Digital has the solution for those companies eager for reliable technology to seize the opportunity: Magento. Released in 2008, Magento is an open source eCommerce solution, with an enterprise option. Magento currently runs over 250,000 active online shops around the globe and is supported by an army of over 150,000 trained developers. Founded in 1999, Syncrony is one of South Africa’s premier Magento developers. The company has worked with customers throughout South Africa and abroad from as far afield as Australia, the USA and Europe. “We work hand-in-hand…
Disruption taking place through isolated digital innovations are a thing of the past. Instead, a complete digital policyholder journey is becoming the expectation within insurance. This can be attributed to how innovation has become commonplace for a business to stay ahead of the curve. In the past, the challenge has been to convince stakeholders of the merits of digital transformation initiatives. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant lockdown have contributed to an awareness that modernisation and digitalisation strategies can no longer be ignored. These are now an imperative if the insurer hopes to meet changing customer expectations accentuated by the…
How to leverage existing infrastructure and employee engagement to build a solid work from home foundation for the business By Nicholas Bell, CEO at Decision Inc. The impact of Covid-19, also known as the coronavirus, is being felt across the global business landscape. The Presidential address on 23 March 2020 has placed South Africa under lock down for 21 days – a step that’s aligned with global best practice but that’s set to change the working landscape for a long period of time. Organisations have to find new ways of working as employees are required to work from home (WFH)…
Leading Johannesburg-based e-commerce and software development specialist Syncrony proudly announces the release of GreenLine version 2.1. This is the latest version of their bleeding edge general ledger reconciliation and balance sheet integrity software. The solution is specifically targeted at the last mile or financial close process. It provides progress visibility and individual accountability for accounting teams running month-end reconciliation processes for large companies and groups. Syncrony management explains that this is to coordinate and support geographically dispersed accounting staff who submit supporting documents that prove the balance sheet of the organisation comprises real numbers. GreenLine validates GL totals that are…
Technology has permeated all facets of business. Today, it has become less about the bits and bytes and more about unlocking the efficiency of processes, improving the customer experience, and better understanding data to deliver on the company strategy. Those organisations looking to provide differentiation must become smarter in how they leverage the technology, systems, and data at their disposal. To become agile for the increasingly digitally-aware age, companies should consider rethinking how they approach their teams, their development and computing environments, their data, and even their managed services. Ultimately, it is about integrating these pillars into a common vision…
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Coffee? Tea? Internet? This is what your company should pay when you work from home. There are regulations and rules that protect both employer and employee when it comes to costs, tools and behaviours, but these are being tested in entirely new ways with the 2020 pandemic. It’s a perfectly legitimate question for any employee to ask for financial support when they’re working from home, using their internet and electricity to do their jobs. It’s equally legitimate for companies to query the extent of these costs at a time when budgets and economies are tight. According to Sandra Maritz, Legislation…