by Dianne Bayley | Aug 27, 2019 | Innovation
Digitalisation is constant. We see it in the continuous innovative disruption across the globe. This progressive phenomenon has succeeded in turning the service industry on its head, placing tremendous pressure on businesses to remain relevant and successful. The...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 27, 2019 | Innovation
If we were to strip away artificial intelligence (AI) as we know it today, Matthew Kibby, vice-president: enterprise for Africa and Middle East at Sage, is not convinced that humans would know how to cope with life. Without AI, there’d be no Waze or Google Maps to...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
South African travel booking platform Travelcheck.co.za is optimistic about growth in the local online travel market, and CEO Odette Faling believes conditions are primed for new entrants to make their mark in an industry by creating new ways of booking such as...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 26, 2019 | Security and Legal
It’s been said that in this new digital age, the world’s most valuable resource is data. This has led businesses to collect vast amounts of data in a bid to remain competitive. But is all this data really useful, asks Rian Durandt, head of department: business...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 26, 2019 | Sustainability
The Internet of Things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) communications are by no means new concepts, having existed for many years already writes Gary Allemann, Managing Director of Master Data Management. What is new and revolutionary, though, is what we are now...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 26, 2019 | Innovation
IBM has transformed its software portfolio to be cloud-native and optimised it to run on Red Hat OpenShift. Enterprises can now build mission-critical applications once and run them on all leading public clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform,...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 26, 2019 | Sustainability
Given the importance of data in today’s connected business environment, organisations have no choice but to embrace a more effective data management plan (DMP) as the means to empower them to make better decisions. Sherrine Green-Thompson, SmarterData Area Lead at...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 21, 2019 | Innovation
Huawei has launched its Global Industry Vision (GIV) report, drawing on quantitative data and real-world use cases of intelligent technology to identify 10 megatrends currently shaping how we live and work. The 10 trends and examples of GIV’s key predictions for 2025...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 21, 2019 | Security and Legal
South Africa’s IT professionals’ body, the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA), has called for greater IT industry involvement and innovation in driving inclusive Fourth Industrial Revolution progress in Africa. At the IITPSA annual...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 21, 2019 | Security and Legal
The cost of a data breach has risen 12% over the past five years, and now costs $3,92-million on average. These rising expenses are representative of the multiyear financial impact of breaches, increased regulation and the complex process of resolving criminal...
