Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, announced that Standard Bank’s short-term insurance business in South Africa has selected TCS BaNCS™ Cloud for Insurance to power its digital claims transformation and reaffirm its leadership in the region. TCS BaNCS Cloud for Insurance will be offered on a SaaS model…
Sapiens International Corporation has announced that one of South Africa’s top five financial institutions with nearly 10 million customers, has selected it as their transformation partner. The financial institution will implement Sapiens’ cloud-hosted, IDITSuite for short-term insurance and Sapiens Intelligence, with the help of Sapiens Managed Services. Subsequent to successfully launching its fully digital insurance product for individuals to purchase cover for motor…
In an age of accelerated digital migration and modernization movements, the Cloud has been touted as a veritable salvation for continued operations and increased efficiency. But is Africa keeping up with this global trend? The answer, you will find, lies somewhere in the middle. If you look at Africa from an economic development standpoint, you…
The speed at which Africa’s business sector has changed over the past year has been nothing short of astonishing. Business leaders have had their hands full, from enabling remote work on a previously unprecedented scale to adapting to disruptions among many other things. At the center of this change is cloud. Before the pandemic hit,…
Globally, the manufacturing sector plays a significant role in driving economic growth, job creation, and lifting people out of poverty. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, global manufacturing output has been in decline and Kenyan manufacturers say they are now prioritising cost reduction, increasing revenue, retaining jobs, and improving cash flow. At the…
Kenya is witnessing the growing adoption of digital services such as cloud, big data, and IoT driving the demand for data centers in the region. Kenya’s data center market is set to grow at a CAGR of 12.36% during 2021-2026. This is according to the “Kenya Data Center – Investment Analysis & Growth Opportunities 2021-2026”…
Enterprises that have decided to move to the cloud are being presented solutions built on two different deployment models: single tenant (ST), which is really nothing more than running an on-premises solution on someone else’s IT (hosting), or multi-tenant (MT) built on much more scalable, true cloud technologies. Deciding which model to go with isn’t…
Google Cloud and Workday Inc. a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, have announced a strategic partnership that will enable businesses across the world to further their digital transformations. As a Workday preferred cloud partner across core industries—such as healthcare, financial services, and retail—Google Cloud will help businesses run Workday enterprise applications for finance,…
Google Cloud has appointed former Oracle South Africa Managing Director Niral Patel as Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa. Before Oracle, Patel also held various leadership roles at global tech companies including Microsoft, IBM and Hitachi. Patel brings with him more than 20 years of tech sales leadership to his new role and will be based in…
Cloud adoption—including hybrid and multi-cloud adoption—is expanding fast among both private and public sector organisations of all sizes. At the enterprise level, consulting firm BCG estimates that two-thirds of companies globally already use multiple clouds. It predicts that by 2025, up to 60 percent of consumer-facing applications, almost 40 percent of data warehouse and analytics…
