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Storage abroad is a transfer: what Egypt's PDPL Executive Regulations ask of your architecture
10 August 2026

Storage abroad is a transfer: what Egypt's PDPL Executive Regulations ask of your architecture

Egypt's PDPL Executive Regulations define cross-border transfer to include storage. That single clause turns compliance from a legal workstream into an infrastructure decision — and the usable runway is about five months, not twelve.

The last twenty per cent: why integration eats the back half of a rollout
7 July 2026

The last twenty per cent: why integration eats the back half of a rollout

The work remaining at eighty per cent complete is a different kind of work from the eighty already done. Why it resists estimation, and why sequencing beats estimating.

UK strategy, Egypt engineering: what has to be true for it to work
12 May 2026

UK strategy, Egypt engineering: what has to be true for it to work

Every firm with an offshore office makes some version of this pitch. An honest account of what the model actually requires, what the timezone claim is really worth, and how data residency changed the calculation.

Your SLA is a design document
10 February 2026

Your SLA is a design document

Response times and availability targets are architectural constraints, not commercial terms. Agreeing them without engineering in the room commits you to a system nobody designed.

The integration debt nobody puts in the ERP business case
9 December 2025

The integration debt nobody puts in the ERP business case

Licences, implementation and training all get a line. Integration rarely does — and it is usually where the money goes. Why the cost is invisible early, and how to size it honestly.

The university platform decision is made before procurement opens
14 October 2025

The university platform decision is made before procurement opens

By the time a tender is published the outcome is largely fixed — set by requirement lists that describe the current system, scoring that hides the decision, and integration questions asked far too late.