Andre Venter Building a SOC and all that went with it when there were no templates. An Organically Grown Service Lacking in Structure To modern readers, the idea of selling a managed firewall service without structured tooling or auditability might seem maverick. But in the late 1990... May 14, 2025
Andre Venter The Wholesale DSL Playbook: How We Created a Market to Own It A Market Engineered for Stagnation By 2012, broadband access in South Africa was constrained by legacy infrastructure, outdated business models, and institutional inertia. Although the country had ent... Apr 7, 2025
Andre Venter The Development of a Medical Emergency Alert Product, and Why We Chose to Develop a Smartwatch Building the Value of Reassurance Designing a watch that quietly connected lives, care, and systems It started, as many ideas do, with a simple question: What’s the value of knowing someone you care f... Apr 4, 2025
Andre Venter How Blockchain, IoT, BIM and a Software Platform was Ready to Optimise the Construction Industry Understanding the Challenge “That’s not quite how it happened.” It’s a phrase you hear on construction projects when two versions of the same event don’t quite match, a delivery that was recorded but ... Apr 2, 2025
Andre Venter We Called It Email Security, It Turned Out We Built a Cloud Platform Setting the Scene In the period between 2003 and 2004 South Africa’s tech ecosystem looked very different. The cloud, as we know it today, simply didn’t exist. “Cloud computing” wasn’t a buzzword, it ... Apr 1, 2025
Andre Venter How Odoo & IoT Transformed a Livestock Tracking Product Development Project From smart collars to automated sales, this is how Odoo became the backbone of a game-changing livestock tracking system product development project, saving farmers thousands of pounds by optimizing o... Mar 10, 2025
Andre Venter STBM Access Products: Great products that never were. Standard, Tiered, Burstable, and Metered (STBM) The Importance of Learning from Failure Many of us hesitate to discuss our failures, but the reality is that we all experience them. Understanding why w... Feb 19, 2025
