by Dianne Bayley | Oct 5, 2016 | Features
By Eckart Zollner, Head of Business at Jasco Group Until recently, big bandwidth delivered by fibre and the like has only really been enjoyed by industry and enterprise – it was not accessible to the individual working off-site. An individual working from home or a...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 5, 2016 | Security and Legal
By Coenraad de Jager, Executive: Commercial, Personal and Distribution at Mutual & Federal Imagine waking up to discover someone you’ve never met has racked up a huge amount of debt, and potentially a criminal record, in your name. Now imagine this person got all...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 3, 2016 | Features
By Patrick Groot Nuelend, Head of Product Management ENC, EMEA, Zebra Technologies The internet of things (IoT) has been given the term ‘Industrie 4.0’ in Germany for its potential to spark a new industrial revolution. Eighty per cent of companies see IoT as the most...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 3, 2016 | Innovation
In a bid to significantly improve the reliability and efficiency of standby power systems in corporate environments, Powermode, a leading Johannesburg-based power provisioning company, has launched a locally designed and manufactured GSM cellular-based monitoring...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 3, 2016 | ITSM and Application Development
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, worldwide converged systems market increased revenue 12,1% year over year to $2,9-billion during the second quarter of 2016; with the market generating 1,693 petabytes...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 3, 2016 | Workplace 2020
Given the connectedness of organisations today, cyber security has become a fundamental part of business, and chief financial officers (CFOs) need to take note. Nathan Desfontaines, KPMG’s Cyber Security Manager in South Africa, believes that this environment is...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 3, 2016 | Features
Starting a business is a huge achievement, while the greatest challenge is to sustain and develop it. There are many threats to a business that can take it from profitability to extreme financial hardship in an instant, and many risks are entirely beyond our...
by admin | Sep 28, 2016 | Past Editions
Can IT help rescue retail, IT finance enabling the digital era, and betting on Africa. Read more of September’s Futurewave BusinessIT...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 27, 2016 | Report-back
Gartner named the Symposium/ITxpo 2016 held in Cape Town from 26-28 September 2016 “The world’s most important gathering of CIOs and Senior IT Executives”, highlighting that for CIOs, now is the time to act, innovate, take risks, and transform IT from a...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 21, 2016 | Features
By Rudraksh Bhawalkar, Practice Manager, Analytics, Africa Region, Wipro Limited and Gavin Holme, Wipro Limited’s Africa Country Manager A robot-driven future is closer than we think. According to Gartner’s “Top Predictions for IT Organisations and Users for 2016 and...