Category: Product

Let’s talk… future proofing your business resources

It’s no secret that modern businesses face modern challenges, which more-often-than-not require modern solutions. Yes, we said modern a lot, but such is the nature of the present day (resisted the urge) work environment we face today.

Whereas traditionally, organisations had their hands full with “old-school” problems such as managing employees, resources, stock, and physical challenges (plus the risk of conventional crimes), today’s shift to a digital world has been a double-edged sword. Yes, it’s made running a business infinitely easier, as combining technology with practicality has resulted in immeasurable business growth, but with these benefits have come a wealth of new, previously unforeseen risks alike. Today’s brands can no longer rely on yesterday’s methods of ensuring maximised efficiency and safety – as we move towards the future of operations, so too do we need to make a similar transition to newer and more innovative methods of managing our brand.

Enter Braintree, which makes future-proofing your business a way of the present – particularly within our Assessments Spectrum.

Our Braintree Assessments comprise of a wide array of completely free services guaranteed to gear up your brand for maximised future growth. Safety, security, efficiency, streamlined operations and more – you name it, we cover it, and we’ll be unpacking just a few of the ways our organisation can help yours down below.

But first, let’s unpack what these Assessments entail…

• First on the list is our Microsoft 365 Evaluations:

These comprise of understanding the risk and compliance across the entire 365, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Azure AD components. Our team of experts will unpack, assess, and report on the above multitude of elements to allow your brand to maximise your investment and unlock the full potential of your M365 suite.

• Next up, our Teams Assessments:

Widely considered the hero of the pandemic, Microsoft Teams has become a mainstay in daily business operations across the globe. Our Assessments helps to enhance this experience by testing network performance and connectivity for all your MT calls.

• Let’s look at Azure Cloud Readiness:

Moving to the Cloud is no simple feat – and a proper evaluation is imperative in order to make this transition as easy, cost-effective, and painless as possible. Herein, we’ll assess workloads and your overall business readiness in order to facilitate the migration of applications to Azure.

• What about SQL Servers?

We’re glad you asked. Herein, we’ll assess SQL cost and license efficiency, so your business doesn’t have to. In doing so, we’ll supplement this by simultaneously evaluating your Cloud Readiness and compatibility.

• Last, but certainly not least, CSAT Cyber Security:

With this being Cyber Security Month, we’d be amiss to not include some focus on your safety within our Assessments portfolio. This service offering will rapidly assess your Hybrid IT Environmental Security Status – specifically with regards to endpoints, Active Directory, 365, Azure, and more.

As can be seen, our range of free Assessments is vast, comprehensive, and meant to cover multiple organisational touchpoints so as to ensure your business is fully catered for. Our team of experts have years of industry knowledge from which to draw from – as well as a proven track record of long-term, sustainable growth for all our happy clients.

We have perfected the art of evaluating where and how your business can be made more efficient while paving the way for a smarter, technologically-grounded tomorrow – and we hope to share this knowledge with anyone willing to learn. If you’re interested in one of our Assessments and hoping to explore these concepts further, give us a shout, and let one of our team members propel your organisation into a safer, smarter, and optimised tomorrow.

The world has long since gone digital – and we’re firmly into the next stage of our business and personal evolution. Which next phase, you ask? Well, with this shift to remote working, applications, accessibility, and a need for complete flexibility comes a need for solutions which allow for such requirements. Enter Cloud (although it’s been around for a fair while) – which is simultaneously the now and the later of remote and hybrid environments.

At any given point, individuals interact with Cloud based solutions on an almost daily basis. Data storage, Email, mobile applications, and GPS tools such as Waze all base their accessibility around Cloud compatibility. From a business standpoint, however, things can get a bit stickier – there’s a migration process which needs to happen, which can be a bit tricky if not done correctly.

It is exactly these challenges which can be off putting for businesses even contemplating moving to the Cloud, and exactly the reason the concept is still met with initial trepidation. Some of the most common issues we encounter from organisations experiencing this trepidation include:

• Limited understanding of how and when to transfer apps, workloads and the infrastructure which underpins this migration – this is largely due to the complexity of the process.
• A distinct lack of specialist Cloud expertise and resources – which makes the sourcing of skilled technicians challenging. Many brands lack the personnel or resources required to facilitate such a transition painlessly.
• Many brands also struggle with selecting the correct service providers or applications. This is often not clear cut, with the lack of clarity making simplification and consolidation a challenge.
• The cost implications can prove insurmountable. Many existing structures are often a complicated blend of services and data – making this migration (or at least the costing thereof) can be very off-putting for potential migrators.

So… what’s step one?

If your organisation is seeking a Cloud Migration, you should be aware that pre-migration planning is almost as critical as the actual implementation itself.

As such, your Cloud Readiness Assessment is an essential first step, one which can provide a firm, solid, and reliable foundation from which to build on. This process involves a full assessment of your applications and Data – before we move them, we need to establish if they can be moved – as well as calculating a way to do so with minimal impact on your business operations. Said assessments further allow your brand to understand what elements need to be in place so as to make this migration seamless.

With Nymbis, our Cloud Readiness Assessment allows the user to pinpoint directions for their Cloud journey. In doing so, our team of experts are able to advise you on the best adoption and transformation strategies – allow you to unlock maximised benefits for your organisation.

What does it entail?

The aforementioned assessment services focus on guiding you, our customer, towards technology modernisation, rationalisation, remediation, and migration to a Cloud Platform.

Through assisting your brand in establishing a Cloud Adoption maturity baseline, your business can then better identify the potential scope of these changes. It’s no small feat either – as this migration will essentially take your current portfolio and wholly digitise it, so businesses need to be fully prepared and ready to make the jump. Where do our team come in? Glad you asked…

• We identify the workloads best suited for your Cloud transformation, which in turn enables your organisation to maximise your ROI.
• We also develop a roadmap with clearly defined goals, so as to ensure a smooth and successful transition during this journey.
• Furthermore, we deliver a comprehensive Cloud computing migration plan, designed to align your journey with specific business requirements unique to you.

We believe that a comprehensively strategized and well implemented Cloud Readiness Assessment is key to ensuring your transition is painless, cost-effective and doesn’t limit your current business operations. Let our team of experts guide and advise you further completely free of charge. To sign up for a free Cloud Readiness Assessment, simply visit (insert link) and sign up today.

Running a business in today’s day and age is costly – not to mention at times a logistical nightmare. In fact, given the landscape us South Africans have had to navigate (one pandemic, one riot, two floods and multiple bouts of loadshedding within a two-year period, to be precise), businesses across the board have had to tighten belts and embrace the pinch that is budget constraints.

Between salaries, expenses, equipment and beyond, recent events have been tumultuous as far as business owners are concerned. We’ve all been affected in some way or another – whether it’s your favourite family business finally closing their doors or your loyal, dedicated staff having to take unexpected pay cuts.

In light of this, no brand can really afford unforeseen expenses, unexpected bill shocks, going over budget or rapidly escalating costs which continue to spiral out of control. Most organisations are tightening their belts and pinching their wallets and, at this point in time, any additional expenditure can have long-lasting, potentially fatal repercussions for your brand.

So, let’s get into it – what does Cost Management Entail?

The term can be loosely defined as the process of planning, managing, and controlling your business expenditure. It enables one to predict and navigate organisational expenses in order to control your spending (and keep this within the stipulated budget) – thus making it an integral part of your overall business strategy.

An intense and intricate process, Cost Management involves multiple factors (thereby making it easy to lose control of), but the endgame is to essentially improve cost efficiency by either reducing or restricting the growth of expenses across the board. The strategy, therefore, is an essential business tool – it allows you to align your business strategy and work within your means to operate at maximised efficiency.

The success and sustainable growth of any entity, specifically businesses in this context, is inextricably linked to above adequate (and sustainable) management practices which allow your team to make the correct strategic decisions. Spend too much, and you risk bleeding capital and running at a loss. Spend too little, and you similarly run the risk of drastically limiting your business by operating at a level below that which is needed. An effective Cost Management Strategy effectively allows your brand to:

• Monitor overall financial health, providing a platform for sustainable decision making and continued positive dividends.
• Optimised financial planning and efficient, effective strategic/financial decisions.
• Explore the possibility of reduced costs with increased profit margins.
• The ability to identify unnecessary expenses which do not yield sufficient returns whilst establishing better uses for your finances.

Despite being crucial to sustainable organisational growth, many entities and managers still tend to understand its importance – especially those not fully aware of its benefits.

This is where Cost Management comes into play – with particular focus on Microsoft Azure – as it allows a neutral team of third-party experts to assist your brand with navigating this difficult financial climate. Not only does it provide a full and comprehensive outlining of exactly what risks your organisation faces, but it simultaneously details a feasible, tangible strategy to ensure that the “worst case scenario” is never an actual reality.

So… what is Azure Cost Management and how does it help me?

Azure Cost Management is, simply put, your gateway to successfully reducing business risks, managing expenses, and ensuring your efficiency does not come at the cost of going over budget. Our team of experts at Qwerti will assess and evaluate your structures, in turn offering you the following:

• Complete Cost Optimisation
• Mitigation of Risks across the board
• Increased Operational Efficiencies
• Provide you with a full Cost Management Assessment, which will in turn allow your brand to mitigate the expenses affiliated with general operations.

Let our team of experts at Qwerti guide your brand towards maximising your budget and ensuring that your future financial success is never compromised. Ready to get going? Our Assessments are completely free of charge – all you have to do is give us a shout and let our team do the rest.

They say that Data is the new currency – and, if true, every business has the potential to be wealthy.

Don’t believe us? Well, the stats don’t lie…

• Around 2.5 quintillion bytes worth of data are generated each day
• 95% of businesses cite the need to manage unstructured data as a problem for their business
• Predictions estimate the world will generate 181 zettabytes of data by 2025
• 80 – 90% of the data we generate today is unstructured

We live in a Data driven technological age, one where insights, information, and Databases are the backbones of our digital society. It makes perfect sense, too, when you consider the way the working world has transitioned in recent years. Businesses are on the move and increasingly Hybrid, our overall Macro-environment is more fluid (and volatile) than KZN on an ordinary Tuesday, and the work from home revolution (which would have surely raised a few eyebrows had we suggested it 5 years ago) remains in full swing.

Suffice to say, the success of the modern organisation is indeed underpinned by information.

Whether accessing, transporting, securing or (sadly) even stealing it, the ability to protect Data has become increasingly invaluable – critical, some might say. We must admit, we get it though, as information has always been a valuable commodity. Some claim they can trace this value all the way back to when neighbours spied to a hole in their face or leaked trade secrets to opposition parties, but we beg to differ. The reality probably emerged a fair bit later – and this value has only served to increase in recent years.

As crucial (and lucrative) as this information is, we’ve come to notice that having Data is one thing – but managing it is an entirely different behemoth altogether. In fact, we’d go as far as to say that to truly manage explosive Data growth, save big on costs, and ultimately maximise its value, you first need to understand how it works and how best to use it.

So, where do I start?

As with anything, the first step towards implementing involves understanding. Business Data can best be leveraged if divided and managed into two distinct entities:

1. What’s currently active (and useful)
2. What’s archivable (and required to be stored for record keeping)

Being able to access, analyse and leverage Business Data quickly and easily within your daily operations are both key to production success. Similarly, the ability to access older Data at the click of a button when needed is also a massive time saver – maximizing your efficiency and allowing your business a firm foothold into utilitising your information effectively.

Fundamental to this is the ability to identify what’s “cold”, along with not treating all Data the same. Subsequently, the ability to gain fast, meaningful insights on potentially petabytes of unstructured Data (which can be analysed in the background) is pivotal to your organisational ability to maximise your existing informational Databases.

Here are some questions you NEED to be asking your business so as to establish whether your Data is really being utilised properly:

• Is managing your Business Data costing you money?
• Do you have the necessary requirements to store critical Data long-term?
• Does your organisation store large amounts of unstructured Data?

If you answered “yes” to any of the above, then we’re glad to inform you that Nymbis Cloud Solutions can definitely assist you further.

At Nymbis, we provide easy-to-use Archiving Solutions with long-term storage capabilities at an affordable cost. Say goodbye to complicated Cloud platforms and expensive monthly retainers – our team can facilitate, integrate, migrate and, if necessary, dominate your Archiving need without you needing to mortgage your house to afford it. Our free Storage Assessment Tools can quickly analyse and report on unused Data, identify what can be Archived, assist with your business analysing your relevant information and, of course, otherwise troubleshooting.

Interested? We hope so. Simply get in touch for a free Storage Utilisation Assessment – and let’s understand your Data together.