CASE STUDY
A BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS GARRY TAYLOR, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, DATAFLOW GROUP, EXPLAINS HOW THE COMPANY EMBARKED ON ITS TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY 10 YEARS AGO TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL AND WELL-VERSED CLOUD-NATIVE BUSINESS IN TODAY’S DIGITAL LANDSCAPE.
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he march towards cloud technologies has accelerated, especially in the past year, as organisations were compelled to embrace remote models and distributed work environments overnight in the wake of COVID-19. But companies like DataFlow Group had started redefining the parameters of how work happens by experimenting with cloud for enhanced collaboration and productivity long before the ongoing pandemic.
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CXO INSIGHT ME
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As a leading global provider of specialised Primary Source Verification (PSV) solutions and background screening and immigration compliance services, DataFlow partners with clients across the public and private sectors to assist them in mitigating potential risk by exposing fraudulent education degrees, employment certificates, practice licenses, work permits, and passports. In order to successfully authenticate these documents, the company uses state-ofthe-art technologies.
Garry Taylor, Chief Technology Officer, DataFlow Group, says, “We began our journey to cloud with Google Cloud in association with iSolutions, almost a decade ago. Since then, there has been no looking back and we have transformed our IT operations end-to-end over the years. Today we have no applications residing on local desktops or servers, and we have zero data centres.” iSolutions, a specialised provider of innovative technology solutions, has been serving DataFlow Group for its
