EDITOR’S
NOTE
Welcome to the latest edition of
Intelligent CIO Africa magazine.
When Darling Romery, part of the
15 company strong Darling Group, needed
to replace an outdated legacy system
and streamline its business processes and
position itself for growth it deployed Sage
X3 as its business management solution.
Henk Bothma, Head of Finance for the
Darling Group, tells Intelligent CIO that the
company has positioned itself for future
growth and efficiency for at least the next
20 years. Bothma is certainly optimistic
about the future. He told us: “With great
eagerness, we started in January 2020,
year three of the implementation plan to
roll out and implement the system in the
rest of the companies.
“If I could predict the future, I believe we
are going to look back in 2021 over 2020
with great pleasure on how Sage X3 was the
one-stop solution for the Darling Group. The
company now has a solution in place that
will serve as an enabler of strategic growth
into the future.” You can read more about
this month’s cover story on page 50.
With the Coronavirus epidemic possibly
changing the way we work forever, it’s
important that CIOs re
roadmaps, placing dig
heart. Mark Ackerman
Middle East and Africa
tells Intelligent CIO w
businesses implement
order to ensure they a
“Remote work now ha
heart of every interact
some, this whole shift
We may find that trad
have become so used
physical office meetin
going to be very hard
that some people feel
in the room with othe
things done. They don
needed to express the
over video and voice c
turn to page 19.
Elsewhere in the mag
look at how when a le
manufacturer and dis
South Africa (IMSAF)
own IT infrastructure
Data to protect SAP. I
backup with Veeam B
with the result that re
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