by Dianne Bayley | May 1, 2019 | Innovation, Uncategorized
Iniel Dreyer, Managing Director of DMP SA says the move towards “Everything as a Service” (XaaS) is revolutionising business, and Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) – the latest offering in this basket of solutions – is gaining popularity, driven largely...
by Dianne Bayley | May 1, 2019 | Featured Articles, Sustainability
Kate Stubbs, Director Business Development and Marketing, Interwaste notes that the exploration of alternative energy sources and projects is all the ‘buzz’ again, particularly in response to challenges Eskom continues to face and the looming reality of further...
by Dianne Bayley | May 1, 2019 | Innovation
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future,” Nobel prize winner Niels Bohr famously said. He was talking about his chosen field, physics, but as any CFO will tell you, the sentiment applies just as aptly to the world of finance. Arun Babu, Digital and...
by Dianne Bayley | May 1, 2019 | Workplace 2020
Obsolescence. It happened to VCRs. It also happens to executives, even high flyers; especially the tunnel-vision variety that obsess about the job on hand. Michelle Moss, director at Signium Africa discuses the importance of competency-focused future-spotting....
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 30, 2019 | Internet of Things
Kathy Gibson, Editor of IT-Online, was with Kaspersky Lab in Cape Town, where one of the youngest white hat hackers in the world, 13-year-old Reuben Paul performed a live Internet of Things hack. He intercepted a flying drone, controlling its flight and taking over...
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 30, 2019 | Workplace 2020
The challenge of measuring productivity has taken on a new twist in the digital age. One company has tackled the challenge and come up with new ways of solving an ongoing problem. Kathy Gibson found out more As the Fourth Industrial Revolution becomes a reality, the...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 29, 2019 | Workplace 2020
In the 1990s, organisations began outsourcing specific business activities , mainly as a cost-saving measure. Functions not related to their core business – accounting, human resources, data processing, security and maintenance – were contracted out to...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 29, 2019 | Innovation
In what has been described by the property industry as a “resounding success”, one of the residential properties on sale on BidX1’s inaugural online property trading platform in South Africa attracted 103 bids, resulting in fierce competition among bidders...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 28, 2019 | Workplace 2020
From shopping to hailing a ride, with the click of a button or a swipe of a screen, technology has revolutionised our everyday lives. But can it change the way we address the global issue of declining health? Daily steps counted – check. Glucose levels – check....
by Kathy Gibson | Apr 27, 2019 | Innovation
Cloud computing received a major boost over the last few weeks, with two of the world’s largest public cloud providers officially opening data centres in South Africa. Within days of one another, Huawei and Microsoft both opened their local data centres, offering...
