Introduction to Blockchain development with Ethereum
Tuesday, 25 May 2021 by Saratoga
Written by Kyle Josias, Developer at Saratoga Earlier in May, Kyle Josias presented a tech talk to the Saratoga team providing an introduction to blockchain development with Ethereum. As blockchain remains a hot topic, his article shares an insightful overview of Ethereum blockchain and the use of this as a development platform. The Ethereum blockchain
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Making the right technology platform choices to support your business capability
Monday, 03 May 2021 by Saratoga
Written by Conrad Owens, Lead Business Consultant at Saratoga Businesses across the board are increasingly experiencing the pressures of having to deliver better, faster and cheaper operational solutions. Often these internal organisational pressures and limitations impact the speed and quality of the services they can in turn provide to their customers. As an added layer
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Source Control – More than just a repository
Monday, 09 November 2020 by Charlotte
Written by Fredrik Erasmus, Senior Developer at Saratoga I find keeping a repository even for very small projects incredibly useful. In fact these days I hardly start a project without creating a code repository first. You just never know where you might need the code again. As a Software Developer who has worked on numerous
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BA Summit 2020 | Supporting the Business Analysis Community
Monday, 28 September 2020 by Charlotte
Saratoga has a long and established relationship with the South African IIBA Chapter, as well as the Business Analysis Summit. For many years now, we’ve been a proud sponsor of the BA Summit and numerous of our Consultants have presented talks and lightning talks, attended the conference and have volunteered with the IIBA SA in
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Why you should consider using .NET Core for your next project
Thursday, 25 June 2020 by Charlotte
Written by Fredrik Erasmus, Senior Developer at Saratoga What is .NET Core? While I’ve worked in software development for several years using the .NET Framework, in 2017 I started using .NET Core 1.0 for the first time – it was love at first sight. The .Net Framework was released back in February 2002, and is
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Information Security in the age of information
Wednesday, 17 June 2020 by Charlotte
As an experienced provider of professional solution delivery services, Saratoga has built a solid global client base of organisations within various sectors such as financial services, retail, media and supply chain management. To ensure that we continually provide sustainable and secure technology solutions to our clients, Saratoga embarked on a journey to understand and adhere
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Continuous learning at Saratoga – tech talks, Hackathon and virtual talks
Friday, 15 May 2020 by Charlotte
At Saratoga, creating an environment of learning is an ongoing focus for our staff and the organisation as a whole. Spark Sessions To encourage continuous learning, we regularly host Spark sessions at the Saratoga Head Offices where our consultants present talks to their colleagues. The focus of these talks range from discussing new technology trends,
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Software Development Outsourcing in the 4th Industrial Revolution
Friday, 24 January 2020 by Charlotte
With over two decades of experience in delivering innovative and sustainable technology solutions, our global clients have found Saratoga to be the solution delivery and outsource partner their organisation needed to lead them through key technology and business changes.
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Learning, unlearning and relearning
Wednesday, 30 October 2019 by Charlotte
Life has an interesting way of testing the worldviews that we hold. Simple moments such as project stakeholders who hold differing opinions, or team members who have established their approaches with no room for revision. At first, these moments may be jarring as we’re confronted with information that sparks the questioning of our personal ingrained
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Software Testing | An integral part of the Software Development Life Cycle
Tuesday, 10 September 2019 by Charlotte
While software testing is a crucial part of the software development life cycle (SDLC), it can still take clients some convincing to truly understand the impact and benefits of quality software testing. Another challenge software testing professionals face is in reaching an understanding with developers who self-test the solutions they build. While the developers will
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