What successful digital transformation looks like

What successful digital transformation looks like

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...
10 things about innovation learned from startups

10 things about innovation learned from startups

Roger Norton CEO at Startup Studio Playlogix.com, which helps entrepreneurs and corporate R&D projects build technology, looks at what lessons corporates can learn from startups about innovation and what they can do differently to compete better. Innovation is the...
NGO guide to surviving age of digital disruption

NGO guide to surviving age of digital disruption

By Siya Madyibi, Head of Corporate, External and Legal Affairs Microsoft SA Despite 98% of non-profits indicating that technology is very important to their operations, the sector still faces challenges to its digital transformation, compared to other industries.  ...
Think your customers are loyal? Think again

Think your customers are loyal? Think again

We all carry a stack of loyalty cards in our wallets, for medical aid, banks, retail stores, coffee shops, grocery stores, chemists, the local health shop, book stores, airline miles, your spa and many more. On paper you look like a loyal customer, but behind the...
CA Southern Africa unveils ITMaaS offerings

CA Southern Africa unveils ITMaaS offerings

CA Southern Africa has revealed its “chore versus core” campaign which delivers ITMaaS solutions to the market. According to Gary Lawrence, MD of CA Southern Africa, leveraging IT to deliver consistent, quality customer service is pivotal to competitive advantage in...
Report Back: All the news from SAP TechEd

Report Back: All the news from SAP TechEd

Kathy Gibson attended SAP TechEd in Barcelona, where leadership, HANA2, analytics, an Apple-SAP partnership and IoT were announced and discussed. See all the information that came out of the conference. How to do digital transformation Digital transformation shouldn’t...
Report Back: All the news from SAP TechEd

SAP TechEd: IoT and the big data explosion

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...