{"id":3229,"date":"2017-02-08T22:19:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T20:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/netsurit.com\/en-za\/?p=931"},"modified":"2024-01-02T16:33:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T14:33:58","slug":"open-society-foundation-for-south-africa-npc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netsurit.com\/en-za\/open-society-foundation-for-south-africa-npc\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Society Foundation for South Africa NPC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF-SA) is a \u201cnot for profit\u201d organisation committed to promoting the values, institutions and practices of an open, no-racial and non-sexist, democratic, civil society. We are based in Pinelands, Cape Town and have approximately 20 staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OSF-SA invited Netsurit in early 2016 to make a proposal as we were searching for a new I.T service provider. Based on their proposal and our interaction with members of their team we signed a 12month SLA with them effective 1 May 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With their Senior Technology Advisor, Darren, Jacobs, we agreed on a short-term IT Roadmap which would address upgrading, modernising, improving out IT infrastructure. This impacted both software and hardware areas. I found Darren well informed, extremely responsive and eager to find ways to make our lives easier from an IT perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Key objectives of the Roadmap included amongst others:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Highlighted current technology risks and challenges and provide effective remediation options.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Assist with high-level technology costing for expected projects.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Facilitate the prioritisation of Technology remediation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Identify areas of cost savings\/simplification in technology\/telecommunucations and allied services<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. To keep OSF-SA and Netsurit \u201con the same page\u201d to manage expectations and timelines.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    To date Netsurit have facilitated the following projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Migration to Office 365 with end-user adoption training by a professional facilitator<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Mimecast email hygiene and archiving<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Installation of sonicwall firewalls with content filtering and weekly\/monthly usage reports<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. New ruckus WiFi access points<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Setup new dell server<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Security assessment to identify vulnerabilities<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. Implement cloud based back up system<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    8. Present to OSF-SA staff the risks and dangers of poor IT security and advise best practice<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    9. Upgraded all existing laptops to ensure more efficient and reliable performance<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Netsurit through interactions with the team have proven in a very short time to be a responsive, caring, professional technology partner and we look forward to a long and mutually beneficial partnership<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Saleem Mukuddem
      Finance and Operations Director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The OSF-SA is a not-for-profit organisation committed to promoting the values, institutions and practises of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic civil society. Since 2016, Netsurit has been our strategic IT partner. One of the many successful projects managed by Netsurit was migrating our on-premise email system to Microsoft Office 365 cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-study"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t