Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 47 | Page 67

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IS HAVING FAR-REACHING CHANGES IN AFRICA SINCE IT HAS THE ABILITY TO ACCELERATE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND BRIDGE-THE- DIGITAL DIVIDE . www . intelligentcio . com INTELLIGENTCIO

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MIGRATING WINDOWS WORKLOADS TO AWS

As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner , Synthesis specialises in assisting enterprise customers in becoming cloud-ready and executing mass migrations that harness the benefits of Big Data analytics . Chad Epstein , Cloud Migration Practice Lead , Synthesis , tells us why migrating Windows workloads to AWS brings along many benefits .

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Transformation and the impact this is having on organisations in Africa especially now with the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting business operations ?
Digital Transformation refers to making increased use of modern digital products or services to transform the way a business operates . By outsourcing certain functionality to digital services and automating processes which were typically manual or time consuming , it allows a business to gain more freedom to innovate and focus on adding value , rather than spending more time and energy on keeping the business running .
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely disrupted how businesses operate and forced them to re-evaluate their processes and spending . One example is how businesses manage the complex software applications , for example online banking , that are critical to the customer experience . Customers are making increased use of such online services during the pandemic and demand a stable platform , but the hardware used to run these applications is typically housed

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IS HAVING FAR-REACHING CHANGES IN AFRICA SINCE IT HAS THE ABILITY TO ACCELERATE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND BRIDGE-THE- DIGITAL DIVIDE . www . intelligentcio . com INTELLIGENTCIO

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