by Dianne Bayley | Sep 13, 2016 | Features
By William Mzimba, Chief Executive South and Sub-Saharan Africa at Accenture In South Africa, there are some tough economic challenges ahead. Unemployment remains high and rating agencies believe that a downgrade of the country’s credit ratings to junk status is still...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 13, 2016 | Features
MoreCorp Group, the parent company of ProShop, Cycle Lab and a number of related outdoor venues, has found an efficient solution to its connectivity challenges with a full house fibre broadband and VoIP offering from iConnect. The solution, first piloted four years...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 9, 2016 | Sustainability
If your residential complex wants to get on solar here are some of the myths and facts about cost, convenience and savings. But solar is expensive . . . It really depends on how you look at solar. If you talk about solar panels, boxes and wires ‘the technology’, this...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 7, 2016 | Report-back
The South African Telecommunications, Networking and Applications Conference (SATNAC) was held in George, with the focus on building 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT). Kathy Gibson reports Transformation has a dark side The Internet of Things (IoT) is the...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 7, 2016 | Report-back
Huawei held its biggest conference ever in Shanghai, bringing together 20 000 customers and partners to discuss directions in cloud, data centres, and networking. Kathy Gibson reports Intel, Huawei drive 5G adoption Intel and Huawei have signed a strategic...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 6, 2016 | ITSM and Application Development
Building supplier Cloete Sand and Stone has used a paper-based administration system for over 34 years. It recently opted to digitise its system and has appointed Strato IT Group, which will implement StratoPOD, a mobile business application that offers customised,...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 6, 2016 | Sustainability
Lithium-ion battery technology has fundamentally changed the way alternative energy suppliers innovate solutions to overcome many of Africa’s business challenges. That is one of the points to emerge during the alternative energy track of the XON and NEC Summit...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 6, 2016 | Workplace 2020
A disorganised office environment or workspace can often hinder productivity and lead to increased time wastage, essentially draining businesses bottom line. The introduction of technology into the workplace was designed, among many other functions, to assist with...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 1, 2016 | Workplace 2020
By Trevor Coetzee, regional director, South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, Intel Security Businesses all over the globe are battling to close the cybersecurity skills gap as an increase in cloud computing, mobile and the Internet of Things fuels a rise in cyber...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 1, 2016 | Report-back
Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Connect in Shanghai – Every time you get into an elevator, you are putting your life into the hands of a sophisticated piece of technology that you assume is well designed and maintained. More than 15-million elevators are being used...
