Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 29 | Page 10

NEWS Decision Inc highlights real-time innovation Elingo backs true cloud disruption at MyBroadband Cloud Conference E lingo, a top tier Gold Partner of Genesys in Africa and level 2 BB-BEE contributor, announced it was a sponsor of the MyBroadband Cloud Conference taking place in South Africa. The Conference targets the country’s top cloud, hosting and security executives and speakers can share information about hosting services, data centres, cloud computing, virtualisation, hosting infrastructure and connectivity. IT executives and managers can also interact and do business with South Africa’s top cloud and hosting providers. Elingo, being a strategic partner to Genesys, where its solutions are built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), has compared different cloud architectures to assist companies on their journey to the cloud. D ecision Inc has announced it was a sponsor of the Saphila 2019 conference taking place at Sun City, South Africa. The biennial event is for SAP users to connect, create and collaborate and includes Decision Inc showcasing its expertise in data analytics and financial planning, highlighting best-practice examples, as well as discussing the next-generation real-time planning of SAP. “While Saphila provides a wonderful networking opportunity, we see it as the perfect platform to discuss how important the changing technology landscape has become, especially in the financial planning and analytics segment,” said Allan Saffy, Executive for Enterprise Performance Management at Decision Inc. 10 INTELLIGENTCIO Ignatius Richards, Senior Solutions Architect at Decision Inc, added: “This year, SAP is ushering in a major shift in where its platform is headed and how it is rolled out. With a lot of impetus on migrating to the cloud, many decision-makers are concerned about their investments potentially becoming obsolete. “It is a natural progression to look at the wider organisation and offer key features and functions that further improve customer experience and the ability to service customers and stakeholders in a professional manner, including business value add such as mobility and compliance to mention a few,” said Paul McIntyre, Customer Experience Executive at Elingo. “Now features and functions that were only available for the Contact Centre can be made.” “Decision Inc wants to remove the noise surrounding this, examine the roadmap, and highlight where the priorities must be in this dynamic environment.” Richards added that next-generation real-time planning of SAP has assisted multi-national brewing and beverage company Distell in analysing the volumes of data at its disposal for significant business benefits. Paul McIntyre, Customer Experience Executive at Elingo www.intelligentcio.com