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LEADING
THE WAY
SAP Africa expert says
analytics leads the way
to intelligent enterprises
A BRIGHT
FUTURE
An insight into Ghana’s
Renewable Energy Master
Plan and its targets
A LOOK
BACK
How Enterprise
Resource Planning has
changed in the past year
EDITOR’S
NOTE
H
ello and welcome to the latest
edition of Intelligent CIO Africa.
This month’s cover story looks at
how switching data management providers
proved hugely beneficial for OneLogix,
a holding company for 12 specialised
organisations in the transport industry.
With only a small IT team on hand to
service 600 computer users, OneLogix
needed a reliable data management
solution that required minimum
intervention. It turned to Redstor, which
has enabled the South Africa-based
company to eliminate downtime by
streaming data on demand; restore files in
minutes rather than hours; and free up a
member of staff who previously spent all
day monitoring backups.
The success of any modern enterprise can
arguably be ascribed to its ability to make
informed, accurate decisions regarding
changing business paradigms in real time.
With this in mind, Neil Herbert, Director:
Business Analytics at SAP Africa, says
that analytics leads the way to intelligent
enterprises. We also hear from Yolanda
Smit, Regional (Gauteng) Director at PBT
Group, who says becoming data-driven is a
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key priority for organisations and has fast
become ‘the new oil’ in business.
Our second feature is on Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP). Oludare Ogunlade, Sales
Director, West Africa Applications at Oracle,
looks at how ERP has changed in the past year,
while Mohamed Cassoojee, MD and Country
Manager, IFS South Africa, says a single,
integrated EAM and ERP solution can power
an asset-intensive business into the future.
Globally, renewable energy is going through
exciting times with increasing investment
in many countries and as production
levels have soared, costs have dropped
significantly for most of the technologies. In
view of the global trends, the Government of
Ghana has identified renewable energy as
one of the options that could contribute to
the overall energy supply mix and minimise
the adverse effects of energy production
on the environment. Elsewhere in ‘Country
Focus, Foster Plender, Managing Director at
AfricaOnline, says the market is in an exciting
phase and Ghana is rapidly establishing itself
as West Africa’s hub of choice.
Our Editor’s Question this month looks at
what steps organisations can take to prevent
ELIMINATING DOWNTIME
Switching to data management provider Redstor has proved
hugely beneficial for OneLogix, a holding company for 12
specialised organisations in the transport industry. Downtime has
been eliminated by streaming data on demand.
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security breaches, while Steve Herridge, Sales
Director, EMEA, Mimecast, gives us an insight
into his career and how he likes to unwind in
‘Get to Know.’
Lastly, to round of the magazine, Ehab
Kanary, Vice President of Enterprise, Middle
East and Africa, looks at the Smart City
trends for 2019 in ‘Final Word’.
I hope you enjoy this edition and if you
are interested in contributing any future
content then please email me at paul@
lynchpinmedia.co.uk
Paul Rogers
Editor
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