Africa is a place of change. Surviving change demands evolution, and Strategix is a digital Darwin. Strategix’s most recent evolutionary leap leverages Microsoft Fabric, a unified, cloud-based data management platform enabling real-time analytics and AI integration.
Evolution is driven by selection pressures, the Lion with the strongest legs catches the Eland and lives to reproduce, the slower Lion starves and fails to pass on its genes. We must ask, in the digital environment that is South Africa, what are the selection pressures that our businesses must overcome to change and thrive?
One of the most important selection pressures in the animal kingdom is the environment in which they live, that’s why camels are fantastic in the desert and lousy in the snow. Regrettably, the digital environments of many South African companies are hostile to survival. Fragmented data silos lead to inconsistent reporting and missed revenue, poor data quality and governance produce stale master data and result in poor business decisions and even compliance penalties, and on-prem servers are either over-provisioned, causing needless financial waste, or under-provisioned and therefore limiting growth.
Fabric, and its ability to unify your data, is the adaptation your business needs to survive these pressures. Instead of data silos you’ll have a consolidated data platform unifying ERP, CRM, and BI. Where you once had poor data quality and governance, you’ll now have battle-tested data-quality frameworks and governance controls. What was poorly provisioned on-prem servers is now fully scalable cloud compute that can scale up or down in an instant charging you only for what's actually used. Strategix’s Fabric offering is the ticket to turning your digital environment from one of hostility into one of abundance.
What differentiates an Apex predator from its prey? Simply the tools at its disposal, teeth for meat vs teeth for grass, sharp claws vs dull hooves. You get the idea, tools matter, a lot. By leveraging Microsoft Fabric, Strategix equips your business analysts with instant, self-service insight through Power-BI and real time analytics, your data engineers with massive, scalable processing power through Apache Spark and Delta Lake, and your data scientists with collaborative notebooks and one click model deployments. Your administrators are also empowered with the whole host of the Microsoft Entra security offerings, including role-based access control and threat warnings. The result is a seamless, end to end platform that turns raw data into sharpened, actionable intelligence, enabling your company to be the hunter and not the hunted.
That’s all good and well, the evolution analogy was fun, but you’ve heard this before. Lots of hot air, lots of guarantees that aren’t quite kept, you’re sceptical and you’re right to be. Afterall, the proof is in the pudding and not in the promise. Well, Strategix was sceptical to, that is until they put it into practice. Across a range of clients Strategix has seen report generation times reduced by an average of 80%, observed a 70% reduction in data related incidents, halved compliance audit effort, and driven 40% reductions in IT operating costs. Increased performance with lower prices, now that’s evolution.
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