Wipro, Qlik to deliver advanced analytics
Wipro and Qlik have extended their partnership to a global alliance and will work together to offer advanced enterprise analytics solutions to joint customers across industry sectors. Wipro’s...
View ArticleBig data: DIY or buy?
Choosing how to implement your big data capabilities is critical; buying a complete solution could reap rewards, writes Vicky Falconer, big data solutions lead at Oracle Australia. Building your own...
View ArticleFrom print provider to marketing service provider
Printing has been around for what seems like forever – and even though the popularity of printed material hasn’t diminished in the face of widespread digitisation, the maturity of the market means...
View ArticleOne small step to mobile ROI
The ability to work from your smartphone, anywhere and anytime, has transformed the way business is conducted, writes Nader Henein, regional director: advanced security division at BlackBerry. But...
View ArticleTrue digital disruption requires a leap of faith
Many large organisations are constrained with vast and complex IT systems, steadily built up over the years, that now threaten to drown the company as it desperately tries to compete with more agile...
View ArticleWhy moving to cloud saves money
Despite the many benefits of moving to the cloud, South African businesses are still hesitant to make the transition, writes Steven Cohen, head of Sage One International (Africa, Australia, Middle...
View ArticleSecurity for Africa’s growing mobile market
With mobile ownership in South Africa and Nigeria now as common as it is in the US, the continent is rapidly gaining ground as the new frontier for mobile. Its young population, ready to embrace the...
View ArticleThe Uber era: use cloud to avoid disruption
Staying relevant in a disruptive environment is top of mind for businesses today. To succeed, businesses must start evaluating innovative new cloud approaches, says Andre le Roux, Africa region MD for...
View ArticleMeetings just got smarter
Lenovo has announced the Lenovo Smart Meeting Room Solution – a collaboration with Intel featuring the ThinkCentre Tiny desktop and Intel Unite technology to transform meeting room spaces, change the...
View ArticleCyber-crime in the digital era
Many researchers now estimate the scale of the global cybercrime business to be greater than that of drug trafficking. Kaspersky Labs’ recent survey revealed that nine out of 10 companies have already...
View ArticleGetting workers onboard the right way
In a market in which skills are in short supply and where millennials now dominate the new generation of South Africa’s workforce, it is critical that businesses manage the training and onboarding...
View ArticleMCIPS procurement professionals earn 15% more
MCIPS professionals in Sub-Saharan-Africa earned 15% more in 2015 than non-CIPS professionals. Those were the findings from over 4000 procurement professionals who contributed to the latest free salary...
View ArticleWhy business change is imperative
Waldemar Adams, senior vice-president: analytics at SAP EMEA examines why a business that does not keep up with change is doomed to fail. “Without doubt, today’s ever-quickening cycle of change is...
View ArticleBig data changes the face of risk management
As the business environment continues to evolve, bringing a new set of challenges and threats to organisations, risk managers across the globe are beginning to harness the power of big data to...
View ArticlePreparing for your next IT budget
IT spend has increased significantly over the last decade and business leaders everywhere fear they may be spending too much on ‘unnecessary technology’, but often not enough on what is really...
View ArticleFour accounting hacks that keep small businesses afloat
By Daryl Blundell, MD of Sage SSB (Start-up and small business) Accounting South and Southern Africa Many business owners are not equipped to survive the years of hard work and reach overall success....
View ArticleSoftware AG launches webMethods DevOps Edition
Software AG has announced the availability of its new webMethods DevOps Edition for continuous development, testing, integration and deployment, with low to zero failure rates. The purpose of...
View ArticleSteelCentral amps up visibility in the cloud
Riverbed Technology has announced new enhancements to Riverbed SteelCentral that bring major advances to troubleshooting capabilities and improved monitoring across the cloud while simultaneously...
View ArticleDeloitte Digital corners African Apache Cassandra space
Deloitte Digital now has the first two licensed Apache Cassandra practitioners on the continent. The Apache Cassandra database is a distributed database management system designed to manage large...
View ArticleRisk resolutions drives engineering success
Managing risk and promoting safety is paramount in engineering practice. Alvin Dye, regional construction head at Marsh Africa’s construction division, explains how successful projects are not selected...
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