Episodios

  • TCS+ | How Betway parent Super Group profits from Workday

    TCS+ | How Betway parent Super Group profits from Workday
    Sep 4 2024
    Super Group, the New York-listed parent of Betway and other online betting brands, has achieved significant gains in efficiency and productivity through its partnership with Workday, the cloud-based enterprise software company.
    The company has deployed Workday’s software, and Neil Greybe, its human resources information systems manager, tells TechCentral’s TCS+ business technology show about how it has derived significant value from the investment – including in improved consistency, simplification, integration, prioritisation and change management.
    Greybe is joined on this episode of TCS+ by Workday South Africa MD Kiv Moodley, who expands on the relationship between the two companies.
    In the discussion, the two chat about:
    • Greybe’s role at Super Group and the company’s focus areas;
    • Workday’s presence in South Africa and its strategic priorities for this market;
    • The vision and strategy for Workday, and how that ties in with the Changemakers theme of this series of TCS+ interviews with Workday and its clients;
    • Greybe’s top priorities in his role at Super Group, and how these tie in with the role technology can play in supporting and growing the business;
    • Super Group’s relationship with Workday and how the company uses the software in its day-to-day operations;
    • The value that Super Group has derived from its investment in Workday; and
    • Workday’s role as a “trusted adviser” to its clients, including Super Group.
    Don’t miss a great discussion! TechCentral
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  • TCS | Scott Gibson on his new role as Pragma CEO

    TCS | Scott Gibson on his new role as Pragma CEO
    Sep 3 2024
    Former Britehouse CEO Scott Gibson was recently appointed as chief executive of enterprise asset management company Pragma. He is the guest in this episode of the TechCentral Show (TCS).
    Gibson, who also previously headed Dimension Data’s (now NTT Data’s) global digital practice, tells TCS about his appointment and why he decided to join Pragma, which develops a software platform in South Africa that it exports to companies around the world. Gibson plans to step up that internationalisation effort as CEO.
    “Pragma’s software competes comfortably with the world’s top brands, such as SAP, Maximo and IFS Ultimo. I plan to use my experience growing software businesses to help Pragma achieve its international expansion goals,” he says.
    Co-founder and outgoing CEO Adriaan Scheeres, who led Pragma for 34 years, will remain a shareholder and member of the board.
    In the interview, Gibson chats about:
    • Pragma’s history and what it does;
    • The size of the business, and the opportunities he sees abroad for the company;
    • Its clients;
    • The trends in the enterprise software market; and
    • The application of artificial intelligence.
    Don’t miss the conversation! TechCentral
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    24 m
  • TCS+ | The past, present and future of Openserve, with CEO Althon Beukes

    TCS+ | The past, present and future of Openserve, with CEO Althon Beukes
    Sep 2 2024
    Openserve, South Africa’s biggest telecommunications infrastructure provider, has been through enormous changes in the nine years since it became a separate brand and a subsidiary of the Telkom Group in 2015.
    In the latest podcast in a five-part series of interviews with Openserve executives, the company’s CEO, Althon Beukes, tells TechCentral’s TCS+ about these changes and what they have meant for the company and the broader market, including its internet service provider partners.
    Beukes provides an overview of these changes, including the recent spinoff of Openserve into a separate subsidiary within Telkom.
    In the interview, Beukes reflects on:
    • The changing dynamics of the telecoms infrastructure market in South Africa;
    • Why there’s been a slowdown in the roll-out of fibre-optic networks;
    • How Openserve is performing considering the broader market context;
    • How load shedding and load reduction have impacted Openserve, and the investments it has made to overcome the challenge;
    • The shift away from legacy copper technologies and the big growth in next-generation services, and what’s driving that demand;
    • The potential for industry consolidation – and why much depends on the outcome of the ongoing Competition Tribunal investigation into Vodacom’s acquisition of up to a 40% stake in Vumatel parent company Maziv;
    • What Openserve would like to see flowing from the Competition Tribunal process; and
    • Openserve’s future plans, including where it’s headed in the coming years.
    Do not miss a fascinating discussion – and the rest of the interviews in the series. TechCentral
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    37 m
  • TCS | ESP's Herman Maritz on Eskom's miraculous turnaround

    TCS | ESP's Herman Maritz on Eskom's miraculous turnaround
    Aug 12 2024
    Herman Maritz, one half of the pair that developed the ESP load shedding app (formerly known as EskomSePush), is grateful that Eskom may finally have load shedding licked – even if that means fewer people are using the app.
    Maritz, who returns to the TechCentral Show (TCS) – he was last a guest in 2021 – reflects on the past four-and-a-half months without load shedding, and what that’s meant for ESP – apart from giving himself and his business partner, Dan Southwood-Wells, to focus on other projects.
    In this episode of TCS, Maritz unpacks the impact of the suspension of load shedding, what that’s meant for advertising and subscriptions on the platform, and what’s next for ESP.
    He also chats about:
    • How ESP is helping communities with load reduction;
    • How they’re using generative artificial intelligence in the app; and
    • The opportunities to launch the software in new markets.
    Lastly, he reveals a few interesting statistics about ESP, including the number of times the app has been downloaded (it’s a staggering number). TechCentral
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  • TCS+ | Pushkar Gokhale on Openserve's digital strategy

    TCS+ | Pushkar Gokhale on Openserve's digital strategy
    Aug 12 2024
    Openserve chief digital and strategy officer Pushkar Gokhale is TechCentral’s guest in this episode of the TCS+ business technology show, where he unpacks the role of digital services on the Telkom subsidiary’s growth ambitions.
    Gokhale, who has worked for various telecommunications operators around the world, came to South Africa more than a decade ago and liked the country so much he decided to make it his home.
    In this interview – which forms part of a series of TCS+ interviews with Openserve executives – Pushkar chats about:
    • His career history, and what brought him to South Africa – and to Telkom and Openserve;
    • The highlights of his career so far, and why he is passionate about telecoms and the opportunities around digital services;
    • His role at Openserve and what his daily work entails;
    • How digital services, including Openserve’s new consumer app, are playing a role in the company’s core business as a wholesaler of infrastructure services;
    • The digital transformation of Openserve’s operations – what was involved and how it is changing the way it does business; and
    • How Openserve works with partners, both locally and globally.
    Don’t miss an insightful interview about one of South Africa’s most important infrastructure providers. TechCentral
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  • TCS+ | Angus Hay on Africa Data Centres' big Samrand expansion

    TCS+ | Angus Hay on Africa Data Centres' big Samrand expansion
    Aug 6 2024
    In this episode of TechCentral’s business technology show TCS+, Africa Data Centres regional executive for South Africa Angus Hay discusses the significant upgrades taking place at the company’s Samrand facility in Gauteng.
    Africa Data Centres is in the midst of a major upgrade cycle at the facility known as JHB 2.
    The colocation facility, which is one of the few tier-4 data centres in Africa, was originally designed to handle 10MW of IT load. When the upgrades are completed in 2025, the facility will house an additional 20MW.
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    In this informative discussion, Hay delves into:
    - The drivers behind the upgrades at Samrand and how “hyperscalers” will benefit from them;
    - The security standards at the facility and the implications for highly sensitive clients such as the financial sector;
    - The energy redundancies that ensure continuous operations at the facility, even in the event of grid collapse;
    - Innovations Africa Data Centres uses to manage the efficient use of energy at the facility; and
    - Initiatives to minimise Africa Data Centres’ carbon footprint by investing in renewable energy sources.
    Don’t miss this lively discussion in which Hay provides a behind-the-scenes peek into the inner workings of state-of-the-art data centres, the powerhouses of the modern internet. TechCentral
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    32 m
  • TCS+ | How Openserve learnt to love ‘open access’

    TCS+ | How Openserve learnt to love ‘open access’
    Aug 5 2024
    In this first in a series of interviews with Openserve executives, TechCentral’s TCS+ speaks to the company’s chief commercial officer, Phila Dube, about its business model, how it works with partners and why it has embraced the concept of “open access”.
    Openserve, which is a subsidiary of the Telkom Group, is South Africa’s biggest telecommunications infrastructure provider with more than 170 000km of national fibre footprint and fibre broadband connections into homes in all provinces across South Africa.
    In this episode of TCS+, Dube unpacks:
    • His role in Openserve, where he oversees the company’s market-facing activities such as business development, product lifecycle management, commercial economics, operations, and marketing and communications;
    • The changes that Openserve has been through in the past 10 years, and what these mean for the market, including the company’s internet service provider partners;
    • All the markets that the company is involved in, from home and business broadband to national long-distance links and subsea cables;
    • The advantages and challenges associated with Openserve’s chosen go-to-market model of B2B2C, or business-to-business-to-consumer;
    • Openserve’s plans to further expand and commercialise its network assets; and
    • Why the company became a champion of the open-access model.
    Don’t miss this opening interview in a fascinating series about one of South Africa’s most important infrastructure operators. TechCentral
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    22 m
  • Meet the CIO | TymeBank’s Bruce Paveley on building a digital bank

    Meet the CIO | TymeBank’s Bruce Paveley on building a digital bank
    Aug 2 2024
    Meet the CIO is presented by Wipro.
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    Bruce Paveley says that when he moved from a senior IT role at Standard Bank in 2017 to the then-nascent start-up digital bank TymeBank, it was “a really big shock”.
    “You go from five buildings in the middle of Joburg, multiple floors, to an office in Rosebank that’s two floors, and that’s the bank, and you think, ‘Wow, is this really a bank? Can it work like this?”
    That was before TymeBank had launched its first commercial services, and long before it would go on to become South Africa’s most successful digital banking start-up with nearly 10 million customers and R6-billion in deposits and R3-billion in loans.
    Paveley’s love for computers started when his dad bought him a Sinclair ZX81 in the early 1980s when he was a youngster growing up in the small north coast town of Empangeni.
    Today, as chief technology officer at Tymebank, Paveley is leading a team that’s building the technology underpinnings (cloud-based, of course) of a modern digital bank. And it’s a fascinating story about using technology to challenge established industry incumbents.
    In this first episode of TechCentral’s new podcast series, Meet the CIO (presented by Wipro), Paveley chats to Duncan McLeod about what was involved in launching TymeBank from a technology perspective, the strategic choices it made and why, and what comes next in the bank’s journey.
    Paveley tells Meet the CIO about:
    • His upbringing in Empangeni and how he ended up pursuing a career in IT
    • The mainframe era, and his experience as a Cobol programmer
    • His IT career at Standard Bank, including his involvement in the bank’s big SAP project
    • Why he joined TymeBank
    • What was involved in building the new bank, and the role that technology played
    • TymeBank’s technology stack, and why the bank migrated from an on-premises solution to the cloud – and why it made the technology choices it did
    • Tyme Group’s internationalisation plans, and how technology is underpinning that expansion
    • How he works with the rest of the bank’s management team, and where technology fits into strategic decision-making
    • TymeBank’s approach to cybersecurity
    • What keeps him awake at night
    • And much, much more
    Meet the CIO is a new podcast series produced and published by TechCentral and published monthly. We talk to IT leaders across South Africa about the role of technology in their organisations. Don’t miss an episode by subscribing to TechCentral at youtube.com/techcentral. TechCentral
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    38 m