by Dianne Bayley | Dec 2, 2016 | Features
By Tom Pegrume, Vice President EMEA Emerging Markets at Hitachi Data Systems The business world is changing. Historically, businesses were “analogue” in that they had a bricks-and-mortar store where customers would interact with real people and things were...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 11, 2016 | Features
Analysts tell us that literally billions of devices will be connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) within the next few years. But they largely fail to talk about how companies will process and analyse the billions of data streams that will be produced. Kathy Gibson...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 25, 2016 | Features
This glimpse of the future was crafted by Stuart Cassie Over 2400 years ago, Plato told a story of a group of people chained up in a cave facing a blank wall. His famed ‘Allegory of the Cave’ depicted a world where a group of prisoners was entertained only by shadows...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 29, 2016 | ITSM and Application Development
By Craig Terblanche, Regional Director, OutSystems South Africa Businesses will not survive, if they don’t start adopting a lean mindset (start small, fail fast if you will). Economic conditions, customer needs and a lack of financial resources are forcing businesses...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 4, 2016 | Features
By Kathy Gibson In contrast to most other industries, the insurance industry business model has not changed over the last century or so. Insurance is still product-centric, with a strong agent network and driven by skilled actuaries. In recent years, we have seen the...
