{"id":776934,"date":"2024-06-14T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=776934"},"modified":"2024-06-14T07:09:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T05:09:09","slug":"business-talk-resilient-innovations-ceo-willem-olivier-on-the-importance-of-business-continuity-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/776934\/business-talk-resilient-innovations-ceo-willem-olivier-on-the-importance-of-business-continuity-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Resilient Innovations CEO Willem Olivier on the importance of business continuity solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Resilient Innovations CEO Willem Olivier outlines how the company stays ahead of emerging trends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olivier boasts over two decades of experience in the Business Continuity Management (BCM) and resilience industries, and has worked on projects in 15 African, Middle East, and Indian Ocean countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023, Olivier was part of the management group that completed a buyout of ContinuitySA from Dimension Data and relaunched it as Resilient Innovations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resilient Innovations has since expanded to include recovery facilities, managed office spaces, co-location in data centres, and a cloud platform offering Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and Backup as a Service (BaaS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The interview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Olivier begins this Business Talk interview by introducing Resilient Innovations as the rebranded, independent successor to ContinuitySA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then discusses the solutions Resilient Innovations offers and what makes the company the right partner for South African businesses seeking business continuity services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olivier also explains how Resilient Innovations stays ahead of emerging trends before revealing why resilience solutions are critical for modern businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He discusses what differentiates Resilient Innovations from its competition across these services before concluding the interview by revealing their plans for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can watch the Business Talk interview with Willem Olivier below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o6EhgtRlZ8k?si=6zi5kxzKHeyRLqJr\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivier has worked in the business continuity industry for over 20 years and oversaw the creation of Resilient Innovations in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":776960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[20037,19585,19533],"class_list":["post-776934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business-continuity-management","tag-business-talk-with-michael-avery","tag-resilient-innovations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776934","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=776934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777011,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776934\/revisions\/777011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}