Climate change is challenging SA farmers
With just months to go until the upcoming maize planting season, climate change and the memory of one of the worst droughts in decades during 2015, remains one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa’s crop farmers,
The future communications galaxy
The South African Telecommunications, Networking and Applications Conference (SATNAC) brings together government, academia and the private sector to discuss the challenges within the
Why courts prefer business rescue to liquidation
In a climate where many South African firms are feeling a knock-on effect from business closures, alternatives to liquidation may be welcome – and business rescue should be considered.
Service management drives value from IT investment
In today’s world, IT no longer supports the business. IT is the business, and the business is IT. If you turn off IT, nobody will be able to do their job and the business will cease to function. By Edward Carbutt, executive director at Marval Africa Despite this,...
Futurewave BusinessIT – September 2015
Accounting for tomorrow and charting Gartner’s hype cycle.
Bringing the universal access dream home
Universal Internet access is a dream that will help all South Africans benefit from the communications, information and resources that the privileged take for granted. Project Isizwe is close to making that dream a reality in Tshwane. Kathy Gibson visited the...
Solid. As a rock
The “Second Wave” of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association’s (IEEE-SA’s) 802.11ac standard is nothing like your grandfather’s WiFi. Representing the fifth-generation of wireless networking, this solid wireless LAN (WLAN) workhouse...
The way forward for BCX
The acquisition of Business Connexion (BCX) by Telkom has been subjected to numerous delays, but is now expected to go through by the end of August. Customers and partners of the successful IT company are understandably nervous about what will happen once it becomes...
Technology can boost customer satisfaction, profitability
Developments in technology and new business trends such as social networking and mobility have all resulted to make the customer king within the mobile-first, cloud-first era, writes Leon Wright, cloud & enterprise business group lead at Microsoft South Africa....
Where exactly is my data going?
With the days of unlimited data becoming a thing of the past, there has been a growing trend in customers using up mobile data much quicker than they were doing previously. Is this because user habits didn’t factor in just how data hungry our habits were or is there...
Information security the main barrier to IoT
Research conducted by Telecom Intelligence has revealed that information security remains the biggest inhibitor of the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), with 42% of respondents identifying security as one of the top two challenges for widespread adoption of...
Engagement key to workplace success
Aon Hewitt’s 2015 Trends in Global Employee Engagement Report confirms that top companies build and sustain a culture of engagement and are often led by CEOs who understand that employee engagement is not just a nice to have but critical to achieving business results....
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