CURRENT CHALLENGES WITH DIGITAL PLATFORMS
The business landscape is becoming more digital. Building digital solutions is getting increasingly urgent for companies to allow them to operate more efficiently internally, and to improve outreach to customers. Typically they build a progressively convoluted number of technologies, and then bandage the gaps which regularly appear. Every time a new technical challenge comes up, another bandage is applied. This leads to a complex combination of cloud and on-premise applications, different user interfaces, complicated and laborious technical maintenance, and the risk that may be created by each additional bandage...
Composable architecture is a significant shift away from the rigid architectural designs of the past. Its inherently modular nature makes it the ideal approach for building modern digital platforms.
Composable platforms allow developers and operators to integrate fit-for-purpose components and customize them to their needs. Instead of a platform that is monolithic, it can be built from composable packages that are combined to create a customized solution.
THE CHALLENGE
As the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in 2020, the South African National Department of Health (DoH) and the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) lacked a comprehensive clinical surveillance and reporting platform. They needed to rapidly connect with clinical facilities and understand what was happening in terms of: ...