MyProperty celebrating 1 year in the Cloud!

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How time flies! Exactly 1 year ago two of our key property portals, MyProperty South Africa & MyProperty Namibia went live on our new AWS Cloud platform.

It was a big step for us filled with lots of technical challenges and late nights that would make for interesting conversation over a few beers!

Looking back it has been a remarkable journey in the end that led us to (confidently) move all our real estate products and client websites to the Cloud.  The team stuck together and made it work. Effectively we have created Africa’s first real estate cloud platform.

Being an early adaptor of ground breaking technology means taking risks, having confidence to stick it through and proving to your clients that it works.  We have proved our critics wrong and in the process opened new doors for us in the medical field. The cloud technology platform constantly challenges us to think more out of the box.

So today we are really celebrating freedom:

Freedom from dedicated server environments with all its limitations.

Freedom from high bandwidth and other costs.

Freedom from old technology.

Freedom from set server specs that you cannot scale on demand.

Freedom to explore and innovate more.

Maybe we should call this special day, ‘Entegral Independence Day’?

To all our clients who stuck with us through this time, a big thank you! You are helping to shape the future of real estate in Southern Africa.

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