Can tech improve public safety?
What is the impact of violence and of fighting it? It’s obvious for the victims and there is no price tag for their suffering. But is there significant impact beyond? Impact that can be expressed in money, expressed as cost? Yes, there is. The Institute for Economics...
How can mobile empower customer retention and growth for banks?
Globally, mobile banking users are set to exceed 1.75 billion by 2019 – that’s 32% of the world’s adult population – as per a report published by Juniper Research. The firm also projects the number of mobile users in the Middle East and Africa are expected to grow to...
Smart grids unlock the power of green energy
South Africa remains heavily reliant on traditional sources of power generation – with green energy sources contributing just a fraction of the country’s total power output. However, with immense solar and wind resources at our disposal, South Africa is ideal for the...
Ericsson Innovation Awards for sub-Saharan Africa closes 30 October
The winning team will receive a cash prize of €9 000 (R135 220), with a second-place prize of €1 800 (R27 000) plus an Android tablet/phone, and a third prize of €1 200 (R18 000) plus an Android tablet/phone. Prizes will be awarded at @AHUBAfricaCom in November.
Futurewave BusinessIT – October 2015
Volume 16, Issue 6 is now out and ready for you to read. It’s all change for Gijima, and we look at the Algorithmic Business.
All the new research from Gartner Symposium
Gartner Symposium, held this week in Cape Town, was the first on the research company’s world tour. Brand new research findings were presented for the first time, with concepts like the bimodal business, algorithmic business and the digital workplace about to become...
SMEXA 2015 looks at service governance
As computing becomes more pervasive, and enterprises move to digitalisation, the need for good service management and governance is more pronounced than ever before.
Come together with DevOps
DevOps is a new term that’s taking the IT world by storm. But what exactly is it, and how can South African companies take advantage of it to develop better applications quicker? Kathy Gibson found some answers The term DevOps has been kicking around for some time,...
All change as insurance looks to transform
As businesses in all sectors grapple with how to digitalise to meet increasing competition, the insurance industry remains one of the least transformed – but the signs are already there that it needs to adapt or die. Kathy Gibson asks why … and how The insurance...
Reduce complexity with hyperconvergence
Move over convergence; IT is all about hyper-convergence nowadays. But what is hyper-convergence and why should you care? Kathy Gibson looked for some answers. The IT industry is one of massive change, with new technologies and products coming to market all the time....
Do the alternative energy sums right
Given the current power challenges in South Africa, as well as a growing trend toward solutions for sustainable electricity, solar technology as a source of energy supply
In-car apps market set to boom
The top five categories that consumers identified as a favorite for use in their vehicles are, in order: navigation (53 percent), weather (40 percent), music (38 percent), news (33 percent) and social networking (29 percent).
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