About NoviForge
Enterprise IT consulting rooted in decades of hands-on experience.
Background
NoviForge was founded by Jaco Wisse, a senior IT architect and consultant with extensive experience in enterprise software, infrastructure engineering, and platform design. Over the years, the focus has been on delivering robust, production-grade solutions for organisations that demand the highest standards of reliability and security.
IBM Software Expertise
A significant part of our background lies in the IBM software ecosystem. We have hands-on experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM MQ (message queuing), IBM API Connect, and IBM DataPower Gateway. This foundation gives us a deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns, high-throughput messaging, and API governance at scale.
Development
From monolithic Java EE applications to cloud-native microservices, we have designed and built software across the full spectrum. Our development philosophy emphasises clean architecture, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code — ensuring that what we build is maintainable and evolvable over time.
Infrastructure
We design and operate infrastructure for demanding workloads: bare-metal Linux systems, virtualised environments (KVM, VMware), and container platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift). Automation is central to everything we do — Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps workflows reduce toil and eliminate configuration drift.
High Availability & Disaster Recovery
Business continuity requires systems that stay up. We architect high-availability solutions using active/passive and active/active clustering, load balancing, and health-check-driven failover. Disaster recovery planning, RTO/RPO analysis, and runbook development are part of our standard engagement toolkit — so that when things go wrong, recovery is fast, tested, and predictable.