What are lost sales costing your business?
Using technology to manage your company’s loss rate can have a massive impact on your bottom line, writes Stephen Corrigan, MD of Palladium If you want to win at business, you need to become obsessed...
View ArticleFinancial plans should be living documents
South African businesses have had to negotiate a volatile economic environment over the past 12 months. From escalating petrol prices and the state capture scandal, to credit-rating downgrades and...
View ArticleUber launches 24/7 phone support
Uber has launched a 24/7 phone support for users across South Africa. Passengers and drivers will have a dedicated phone support line, staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. To call, Uber users...
View ArticleKeep your business safe over the festive season
Businesses that are planning to shut down over the festive period should take precautionary measures to ensure their premises are safe and secure at all times. According to Malesela Maupa, head of...
View ArticleCollaboration key to protecting critical infrastructure
National power grids are increasingly becoming a target of hackers and attacks. Several hacks have been reported across the globe in recent years, drawing the world’s attention to the vulnerability of...
View ArticleFujitsu to provide enterprise transformation offering with AWS
Fujitsu today announces a new end-to-end enterprise transformation offering which will fast track the move to the AWS cloud for organisations, helping them to improve business processes and speed up...
View ArticleSmart cities. Is it wise to get smarter?
We are in an era of intelligent and urgent urban innovation. Our homes are connected, our streets are thriving labyrinths of interconnectivity, and our businesses are a hive of data streaming and...
View ArticleQlik unlocks BI value for UK consultancy
UK-based SAP business planning and consolidation specialists Copperman Consulting is using the Qlik open data analytics platform to provide additional business intelligence (BI) solutions in the local...
View ArticleGartner gives VMware highest product scores
VMware has received the highest product scores for two of the three defined use cases in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for WAN Edge Infrastructure. VMware was recently recognized as a Leader in the...
View ArticleBT to deliver the SD-WAN, cyber security for IXOM
BT has signed a contract to deploy a new generation of network technology for IXOM, a market leader in chemicals manufacturing and distribution in Australia and New Zealand. The deal will see IXOM...
View ArticleA continuous approach to Privileged Access Management
When we think of insider threats, the image that comes to mind is often that of a disgruntled employees looking to cause damage to an organisation. However, these threats are caused by honest mistakes...
View ArticleGartner covers SA’s inQuba
South African customer experience and journey analytics SaaS provider inQuba has been covered by international analyst group Gartner in its Market Guide for Voice-of-the-Customer Solutions 2018 for its...
View ArticleSA-developed research automation software launched
With research automation on the rise, global consumer insight agency InSites Consulting has announced the release of its own research automation software, Fluent, an end-to-end research automation tool...
View ArticleOvercoming the burden of frequent regulatory change
Over-regulation retained its number one position in the PwC 21st Annual CEO Survey¹ as the greatest threat to organisational growth. The complexity of managing compliance within an ever-changing...
View ArticleNew year, new rules, new roles …
The workplace of the future is here, changing rapidly, enabled by new tech and progressive thinking. As a result, a number of new senior leadership roles are emerging that companies must start...
View ArticleToday’s business needs intelligent data storage
The world is driven by data. It’s an instant world, where customers can make or break a business and the insights derived from data is the only thing that gives companies any indication of how to...
View ArticleIs digital transformation making us more vulnerable?
Although some organisations still feel that by digitising their businesses, they will be exposing themselves to cyber threats, on the contrary, one of the biggest benefits that forward-thinking...
View ArticleDespite unemployment, demand for skills soars
The unemployment rate in South Africa rose to 27.5% in the third quarter of 2018, yet the demand for skills remains high – leaving an industry conundrum that is yet to be solved. According to SUSE,...
View ArticleInsight 2019: The year of the end-user application
2018 has been a stabilising year for end-user devices. Headlines about declining PC sales and booming smart device shipment numbers were not as frequent. Why? Because end-users are more certain about...
View ArticleSecurity challenges in the multi-cloud
The cloud argument has been settled and there is no doubt on the minds of the CIO and IT in general that the cloud is now just an extension of one’s infrastructure. The current debate on the table is...
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