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Investing in a software project feels risky. Let’s face it, building custom software for your business isn’t cheap and just like any other investment, it comes with its own risks which need to be managed both during the build process as well as into the future, over the entire life of the system.

Employee productivity is all about being effective and efficient. The overall idea is for employees to use their work hours wisely producing better results in less time. Productive employees focus on the right things at the right times.

Your project is finally on its last legs, User Acceptance Testing (or more commonly known as UAT). After months of development, your application is unleashed on a selected group of users. They are there to determine if the application that has been built meets all the necessary requirements and standards before the big go-live.

Business owners continue to be plagued by confusion concerning South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) and how to become POPI compliant. Misinformation, enforcement protocols, resource distribution, and other factors compound the complexity of the privacy law.

Most local businesses are aware that if they do not meet the compliance requirements of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), South Africa’s data protection law, before this year’s deadline of 30 June, they could potentially be fined up to R10 million in non-compliance fines.

It is almost impossible to make an accurate prediction as to the real future of multicloud technology. However, there are two things at least of which we can be certain: it will mature, and it will gain even greater popularity.

First Technology Digital, a future-enabled partner for digital transformation, digital workplaces and machine learning, has placed a serious focus on empowering the local frontline worker, aligning to Microsoft’s approach of improving productivity and engagement by connecting employees with the tools needed to do their best work.

The payroll and benefits centre of a local integrated energy and chemical company has seen an improvement in cost efficiencies and time savings within the team, following the rollout of an application by First Technology Digital that automates processes within both the ‘movement’ and ‘separation’ areas of the organisation.

South Africa’s working culture ‘cage’ was well and truly rattled earlier this year when, due to the COVID-19 hard lockdown, companies were faced with little choice but to adapt to remote working… or suffer the consequences.

First Technology Digital, South Africa’s preferred partner for digital transformation, digital workplaces and Artificial Intelligence, has been successful in its attainment of Gold-level status for the Microsoft DevOps competency.