Established in 1996, South Africa’s Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has acted as a trusted anti-corruption, forensic investigation, and litigation agency to recover financial losses and correct wrongdoing. But with a long history comes legacy tech and inefficiencies. The project started at the beginning of 2022, says Zwane, noting that the SIU still ran GroupWise at the time, a platform that supports email, instant messaging and document management. Navigating the migrationOf course, this was not a simple task, especially considering how much data the agency was dealing with. The move to do everything internally was important to secure the SIU’s operational continuity and to guarantee the sustainability of the organization.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 23, 2023 10:04 UTC