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Cloud services are critical for SMEs in the current environment, but they require experienced advisory and a comprehensive offering, writes George Thomas,The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown has effectively demobilised the global economy – andit’s no different here in sub-Saharan Africa.
Due to their size and lack of resources, SMEs are vulnerable. Yet, in Africa, SMEs are important drivers of economic growth, accounting forTo mitigate supply-chain shocks, digital commerce platforms, digital analytics and artificial intelligence are invaluable, allowing businesses to scale cost-effectively into new markets.
that by 2035, Africa will have added more working-age people to our workforce than the rest of the world combined. It’s critical that small businesses grow to absorb the challenges and opportunities of this vast labour pool. Luckily, Cloud enables this.The Cloud is likely to form the backbone of IT infrastructure going forward, offering affordable, powerful, easy-to-use platforms that allow businesses of all sizes to grow in a stable, secure environment.
As various industries move online, their data requirements become more complex – often this can only be delivered through Cloud services. E-learning, for instance, requires live streaming and video compression that must be deliverable on low bandwidth, and which is flexible, scalable and cost effective.For SMEs, issues of cash management are paramount right now, but as the crisis disrupts established industry structures, they must also be agile enough to upscale when required.
For all of these opportunities, businesses will require enterprise intelligence services such as Containers, AI, Big Data analytics, bots and much more. These services must be hosted locally to address security and data sovereignty concerns. Cloud is the inevitable solution. The adoption of public Clouds continues to grow dramatically across every industry vertical to address capacity concerns, and the COVID-19 outbreak will drive Cloud consumption even higher.Cloud-readiness assessments and application dependencies are challenges, but by choosing a Cloud partner with the skills, experience and tools to assist with the migration, this challenge can be overcome.
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