{"id":535208,"date":"2021-11-08T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T06:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=535208"},"modified":"2021-11-08T08:59:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T06:59:36","slug":"owning-it-with-sage-gerhard-hartman-on-moving-your-business-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/535208\/owning-it-with-sage-gerhard-hartman-on-moving-your-business-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Owning it with Sage \u2013 Gerhard Hartman on moving your business online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerhard Hartman is the VP of Medium Business at Sage Africa and Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>He has spent 20 years at Sage, gathering extensive experience in helping small to medium businesses achieve their potential.<\/p>\n<p>In his current role, Hartman oversees the expansion of Sage\u2019s accounting, human resources, and payroll business across Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>This involves developing business strategies to drive sales, improve operations, and increase profit margins, while simultaneously acquiring new customers and up-selling and cross-selling to existing customers.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Owning It with Sage, Hartman explains that moving your business online is about reaching and assisting customers through digital platforms, and is about more than having a laptop and an Internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>He also unpacks the cloud and explains how high-quality cloud services \u2013 such as Sage Business Cloud &#8211; can increase business efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Hartman discusses the ease at which businesses can scale their systems and operations with Sage Business Cloud, and underlines the importance of data protection through Sage\u2019s Business Cloud solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Gerhard Hartman is embedded below. Find all the Business Talk \u2013 Owning it with Sage interviews<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/talk.businesstech.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lpFBG8OgcgI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerhard Hartman discusses why it is important to move your business online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":535210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[15578,345,1033],"class_list":["post-535208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-business-talk","tag-cloud","tag-sage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535308,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535208\/revisions\/535308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}