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elcome to Issue 10 of
Intelligent CIO Africa.
When South Africa’s
Tradebridge was struggling with
decreased user experience and
productivity, technical evaluations
identified Riverbed’s SteelHead SaaS
as the ideal solution. For this month’s
cover story, Tradebridge’s Head of
Group Information Security and
Technology, Elize Neethling, explains
how adopting the new cloud platform
has transformed the organisation.
Digitalisation is a global whirlwind that
is leaving nothing in its path untouched,
and this includes job roles. In a recent
study conducted by Gartner, the ways
in which the digital business is changing
the role of the CIO were identified. The
research offered an interesting insight
into which technology trends CIOs find
the most challenging to implement,
which they predict as most affecting
their job roles in the near future and the
increasing responsibilities CIOs now have
outside of IT. The results of the research
can be found in this month’s ‘Trending’
section along with some additional
insight from two Gartner analysts.
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At this year’s GITEX, the two ‘hot topics’
of focus were digital transformation and
smart cities, both of which rely on the
appropriate infrastructure to achieve
a successful implementation. In this
month’s ‘Comment’ section, Infinet’s
Kamal Mokrani focuses on the smart
cities of tomorrow and how laying the
correct foundations now for a highly-
digitised world will enable the smart city
age that we’ve all been waiting for.
The focus on digital transformation
extends beyond GITEX to a recent
BT survey which revealed that whilst
digital transformation is high on CEO’s
agenda, 86% of CEOs are struggling to
deliver the ideal infrastructure on which
their digital programmes rely. With
this in mind, for this month’s ‘Editor’s
Question’ we ask industry experts
about the current barriers to digital
transformation in Africa and how CIOs
can overcome these.
Whilst technology is enabling many
efficiencies across the world, in countries
such as Tanzania, it is enabling access
to life-changing services such as rural
healthcare. In this month’s ‘Country
TRANSFORMING COLLABORATION
AND PERFORMANCE WITH NEW
CLOUD PLATFORM
Elize Neethling, Tradebridge’s Head of Group Information Security and Technology,
explains how Riverbed’s SteelHead SaaS platform boosted the company’s
productivity, enhanced user experience and enabled maximum availability.
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Focus’ we explore the ways in which
technology is enhancing the daily lives
of Tanzanians, from access to banking
to preparing the country’s youth for the
digital future with live coding workshops.
To round off this issue, we ‘Get to Know’
Marko Salic, the CEO of South Africa’s
Argility. He tells us about his natural
transition into the IT industry and why
IoT and AI are at the top of the list for
this year’s technology trends.
I hope you enjoy the read. As ever, if
you would like to contribute to future
editions please contact me at:
[email protected].
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