Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 10 | Page 66

CASE STUDY T radebridge is the leading South African value-added transaction switch, providing solutions to enable immediate, secure and reliable messaging between organisations that support financial transactions. The company consists of three group members: Healthbridge, Sureswipe and DCM Group. Through a powerful range of products and services that Tradebridge has pioneered, it has saved the South African healthcare industry over R1 billion ($77M) a year in operational efficiencies. There are over 5,000 medical practitioners (GPs, dentists, optometrists, specialists and auxiliaries) on the company’s books countrywide. Through its sophisticated medical information-exchange services, it is also integrated with hospitals, pathology laboratories, radiologists and medical aids. The company processes more than R30 billion ($2B) of transactions in real time every year. CHALLENGE: Cloud migration affects performance Until recently, Tradebridge relied on a traditional client-server set up, “We used to have a file server, Exchange server and project server all of which were dependent on the stable supply of electricity. As a result, we experienced occasional downtime.” www.intelligentcio.com