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

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

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

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

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

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,

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.

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

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

While the younger generation of professionals entering organisations are usually the ones to consume and bring awareness to new technologies, many large organisations are making substantial investments into digital transformation strategies and tools. As Business Analysts we’re required to have in-depth knowledge of a company’s operations and the underlying technology, enabling us to understand the