Digitisation of nature: Opportunities, risks

Digitisation of nature: Opportunities, risks

By Simon Carpenter, Chief Technology Advisor at SAP Africa The field of bio-engineering is not new, despite its recent prominence: humans have been domesticating and selectively breeding animals since as far back as 12 000 BC. More recently, advances in technology...
Digitising archived broadcast footage pays

Digitising archived broadcast footage pays

By Paul Divall, Managing Director, Intelligent Technologies, The Jasco Group As we replace manual and paper-based processes and methods with technological innovations and automated processes, the digital age is rapidly permeating every aspect of our world.  Books,...
DxE requires CIO’s role to evolve

DxE requires CIO’s role to evolve

Digitisation was once the onus of businesses at the very beginning of the IT revolution when the prerogative was simply to migrate analogue to digital, while automation sought to expedite work processes and streamline results. Since then, technology has played a more...
Digital Revolution: A wave we should ride

Digital Revolution: A wave we should ride

By Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of Software AG Last year, the market research company Gartner predicted that by the year 2017, around 20 percent of current market leaders would have lost their position to companies founded after 2000. The reason for this is insufficient...