by Dianne Bayley | Aug 18, 2020 | Innovation
Even though corporate interest in IT managed services has always been strong, the global pandemic of the past several months is resulting in a market shift where the outsourcing of certain computing and IT-related processes will become more integral to the success of...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 18, 2020 | Workplace 2020
With the global economy in tatters from Covid-19 and gig workers and small businesses among the hardest hit, it seems counterintuitive that the coworking and shared office space market – the home of giggers, entrepreneurs and start-ups for years – is on the rise,...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 17, 2020 | Innovation
Digital transformation is changing the ways businesses operate throughout the world, writes Deirdre Fryer, Head of Solutions Engineering at SYSPRO Africa. and new technologies like cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and predictive...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 17, 2020 | Security and Legal
With many organisations still scrambling to meet the requirements of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (PoPI), it would be remiss not to ponder the far-reaching impact of the act, notes Andrew Hoseck, COO at In2IT Technologies South Africa....
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 17, 2020 | Innovation
There is a danger when people start talking about smart cities that too much attention is focussed on the technology. While there is certainly plenty of debate around 5G providers, IoT infrastructures, AI and public cloud, the real motivation for smart cities is...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 17, 2020 | Innovation
Most organisations around the globe have been affected by the lockdown that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing them to rapidly deploy mobile workforce solutions to support remote staff in order to ensure business continuity, writes Hayden Sadler, Country...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 12, 2020 | Workplace 2020
A recent survey investigating the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 national lockdown has shown that, of the estimated three million job losses in South Africa between February and April 2020, twice as many jobs were lost by women than men. While many factors are...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 12, 2020 | Innovation
Many enterprise efforts to adopt and scale to cloud have stalled, writes Sekete Maphopha, Tech Solution Planning Senior Manager – Cloud & Infrastructure Solutions & Services for Accenture, Africa, and some organisations got stuck in an experimental mindset...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 12, 2020 | Security and Legal
There is nothing new about fake news other than the name used to describe it, notes Kim Furman, Synthesis Marketing Manager. Disinformation, misinformation, satire, parody, propaganda and manipulations of the truth are age old. John Adams, American president, confirms...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 12, 2020 | Innovation
If there was ever a need for technology to focus on the good it can do in this world, it’s right now. As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the globe, changing our lives in unprecedented ways, it’s technology that’s been our ally, sitting astride this pandemic and...
