by Dianne Bayley | Sep 1, 2016 | Innovation
Bread, milk and eggs. These are some of the first things we pop into our trollies on a trip to the supermarket. But for how much longer? The creeping prices of our favourite food staples have had us questioning just how badly we need to fulfil those ice cream and...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 1, 2016 | Innovation
Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Connect in Shanghai – HSBC is a 15-year old bank, with aspirations to be a world-leading financial services institution. But it needs to offer new and innovative services through new channels if it wants to survive and thrive. “Going...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 1, 2016 | Report-back
Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Connect in Shanghai – Digitalisation is a reality and companies know they have to transform their businesses – but remarkably few of them understand how they will accomplish this move. Nigel Fenwick, vice-president and principal...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 29, 2016 | Security and Legal
Large businesses that struggle to attract sufficiently skilled IT security experts end up paying up to three times more to recover from a cybersecurity incident. This is one of the key findings of the recent report by Kaspersky Lab based on the 2016 Corporate IT...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 29, 2016 | Security and Legal
By Sean Duffy, Security Executive at Dimension Data Middle East & Africa The aim of the Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill (Cybercrimes Bill) is to stop cybercrime and to improve security for South African citizens. A draft of the Cybercrimes Bill was first...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 29, 2016 | ITSM and Application Development
By Craig Terblanche, Regional Director, OutSystems South Africa Businesses will not survive, if they don’t start adopting a lean mindset (start small, fail fast if you will). Economic conditions, customer needs and a lack of financial resources are forcing businesses...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 29, 2016 | Features
Jessie Rudd, BI Consultant at PBT Group In the space of just two weeks, an augmented reality game called Pokémon Go has managed to do the impossible. It has surpassed WhatsApp, Instagram and Snapchat and is on a par with Twitter for daily, active, ‘on the app’ users...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 25, 2016 | Features
By Steven Cohen, Head of Sage One International (Africa, Australia, Middle East and Asia) One of the questions other entrepreneurs most often ask me is what I wish I had known when we first started the Pastel business in 1990. Looking back over the past 26 years, I...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 25, 2016 | Features
Do your shopping habits put you at risk? Are you exposing yourself – and your confidential information – to opportunistic fraudsters? These are questions that online shoppers should be asking themselves says Mark Chirnside, CEO of ThisIsMe, who highlights...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 25, 2016 | Features
MAN Truck & Bus has a growing user base of over 600 employees and independent dealers that rely on the company’s central IT function to provide every kind of operational IT support requirement. With the rapid pace of new technologies, and the shift towards more...
