My team mocks me endlessly for my love of Excel and takes great delight in telling me, “Excel is dead.” I usually remain silent while they build integration models in Excel, create data sets that link to Excel forecasts, and gradually use the tool even mo ...
How can companies address the AI change management gap?
Change management really started becoming a “thing” in the late 80s and early 90s, and within two decades, businesses were diligently factoring change management into their systems and processes and experts were charging eye-watering rates to assess the s ...
What questions should CIO’s be asking about their Microsoft Stack alignment?
Are your licensing, cloud, security, business applications and AI tools working cohesively within your existing Microsoft ecosystem? The challenge for many companies is finding balance across multiple products and solutions to ensure governance and releva ...
How does Microsoft Power Platform become a governed enterprise asset?
Power Platform becomes a governed enterprise asset when organisations treat environment architecture, connector policy, and identity and lifecycle controls as if they are platforms. They’re not admin fixes taped on post-implementation because governance f ...
How can highly regulated environments refine genAI compliance?
Highly regulated financial institutions can make generative AI (genAI) usable by governing the data estate before scaling the model. This means prioritizing key areas of governance such as information classification, remediating excessive access and estab ...
Why has Zero Trust become an operating model in 2026?
Zero Trust has become an operating model because it defends against threats that run continuously. Security teams inside South Africa’s banks, insurers and hospitals are no longer defending a perimeter, they are defending millions of sign-ins that attacke ...
System integration is essential to achieving digital transformation
Companies are struggling with coherence and connectivity across applications and systems. MuleSoft's 2026 Connectivity Benchmark Report found that the average enterprise now manages 957 applications, yet only 27% are integrated, meaning nearly three-quart ...
Before You Switch Anything On: The Five Questions That Decide Whether AI Actually Delivers
Every week, we sit down with leadership teams who have already invested in AI. The licenses are bought, the budgets signed off, the strategy slides polished. And yet, again and again, the same quiet question hangs in the room: now what? How do we turn all ...
Power Platform governance is a challenge in the low-code enterprise
Microsoft Power Platform has become the low-code entry point for enterprise teams to build solutions to fit workflow challenges. Finance teams build Power Apps to replace spreadsheets, operations have automated an approval workflow in Power Automate, and ...
Why Microsoft Inner Circle status matters when choosing a Dynamics 365 and AI transformation partner
The AI Business Applications Inner Circle is one of the clearest signals that a Microsoft partner is operating in the top tier of the Microsoft ecosystem for business applications delivery, customer impact and innovation. It sits within Microsoft’s broade ...









