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ICD Group wanted to create a more connected and collaborative work environment across its entities to facilitate the creation of cross-company mastermind groups and thereby engender innovative thinking. This compelled them to look into either Office 365 or G Suite for cloud email and collaboration requirements. In this instance, Grove as a Google partner offered ICD Group more hard-line value. Stacey Hines, Group Strategic Planner at ICD Group, elaborates that the primary drivers looking into G Suite Business was firstly the value proposition of a collaborative platform that could be leveraged across multiple companies in a relatively quick and straightforward way. “Secondly we were impressed by the time-saving benefit added to our IT-team members who would now be ‘free’ to work on other things instead of placing much focus on managing the on-premise email server and taking care of traditional Office Suite challenges.”

Leading cybersecurity vendor, BDO IT Consulting partnered with Grove, cybersecurity experts in the EMEA region, to form a strategic cyber alliance in Mauritius earlier this month in which they will assist enterprises in delivering advanced cybersecurity technologies to tackle network and email security challenges and mitigate cyber crime. The partnership experience covers a wide range of industries in the EMEA region. Together, they’ve worked on projects in South Africa, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, not excluding the Caribbean and UK regions.

On her LinkedIn profile, Stacey Hines is described as a “strategist, business techie, muse and boundless enthusiast” but many more tags could be added to that list – entrepreneur, facilitator, inspirational speaker, author, expert communicator, a networker of note, proud mother of three and breast cancer survivor. As one of the most dynamic leaders in Jamaica’s IT sector, Stacey is keenly aware that she is a role model for other women in tech.

Is your company sitting on client information that could cost you millions in fines because it’s not managed correctly? Do you know if your company will be able to protect customer data in accordance with far-reaching new laws? When the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect 25 May 2018 in the 28 EU member states it will have big repercussions for every business with interests on the continent. Being unprepared is not an option.