by Dianne Bayley | Sep 16, 2019 | Sustainability
People are reluctant to try new things – at companies, particularly larger organisations, decision makers are naturally risk-averse, writes Kevin South, Head of Digital & CX at SEACOM If something is working, why change it and potentially damage the...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 9, 2019 | Sustainability
Second quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data surprised on the upside, with the 3.1% increase from Q1 handily beating consensus estimates at around the 2.4% level, writes Andrew Bahlmann, MD: Deal Leaders Africa. However, the data shows that the construction sector...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 4, 2019 | Sustainability
The accelerating speed of business and increasing volumes of data are changing the nature of finance, writes Matthew Kibby, vice president for Sage Enterprise Africa & Middle East. To keep up, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) need to embrace their role as ‘economic...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 3, 2019 | Sustainability
With IDC predicting that the collective sum of the world’s data will grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to a 175ZB by 2025, it is more important than ever for organisations to ensure that their information is managed appropriately. However, data management is a term that...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 27, 2019 | Sustainability
It was while studying computer science at UCT that Rapelang Rabana and two friends had the spark of an idea that would lead to their first tech business at age 23. Airtime was an expensive commodity for cash-strapped students so Rabana and her friends devised a system...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 26, 2019 | Sustainability
The Internet of Things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) communications are by no means new concepts, having existed for many years already writes Gary Allemann, Managing Director of Master Data Management. What is new and revolutionary, though, is what we are now...
