by Dianne Bayley | May 21, 2021 | Innovation
Amid the staggering pace of innovation in enterprise technology, it’s all too easy to overlook the role of employees whose job is to process, interpret and action the data emanating from these systems. Dr Anne Hsu is a behavioural psychologist and computer science...
by Dianne Bayley | May 20, 2021 | Innovation
Open Access Networks (OANs) have played a vital role in the growth of access to fibre connectivity around the country, created a level playing field for internet service providers (ISPs) to offer services across the coverage area and provided consumers with more...
by Dianne Bayley | May 20, 2021 | Sustainability
With all the challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic has presented to Africa, there are many exciting changes afoot, and few are potentially more impactful than the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), writes Amrote Abdella, Regional Director, Microsoft...
by Dianne Bayley | May 19, 2021 | Security and Legal
The countdown is on, the Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPIA) comes into full effect on 1 July 2021, writes Xperien CEO Wale Arewa. With the deadline looming, there is a lot of confusion and ambiguity regarding its definitions, requirements and enforcement...
by Dianne Bayley | May 18, 2021 | Security and Legal
After living with Covid-19 in our midst for over a year, it is probably safe to say that, at the outset, a number of us naïvely believed that the hard lockdown would do the trick, and normalcy would return fairly swiftly, according to Ashleigh Blair, Bernadette...
by Dianne Bayley | May 17, 2021 | Innovation
The change in how customers and brands interact over the past decade may seem gradual, until we look back and actually see how drastic this transformation has been, Jeremy Osborne, Strategic Account Manager at Infobip SADC writes. This change was especially profound...
by Dianne Bayley | May 17, 2021 | Sustainability
Too often IT departments or technologists work to uncover the needs of the organisation in silos, building or buying a new tool, rolling it out and training business units on the new technology, writes Willie Schoeman, Managing Director for Accenture Technology in...
by Dianne Bayley | May 12, 2021 | Security and Legal
With many businesses forced into remote working by the Covid-19 pandemic – and likely to continue working a physical-virtual hybrid model for the foreseeable future – paperless processes and stricter privacy requirements are top priorities for the C-suite. According...
by Dianne Bayley | May 12, 2021 | Innovation
Growing at an impressive compound annual rate of 19.1% per year, the DevOps tools market is predicted to be worth almost $15 billion by 2026, notes Nuno Martins, Senior Channel Solutions Architect at Red Hat. This momentum can be largely ascribed to the drive for...
by Dianne Bayley | May 11, 2021 | Sustainability
A transition to a lower carbon economy is occurring rapidly around the world and is critical for South Africa. The transition is being driven both by a realisation of the urgency required to save our environment and by economic reasons and comes with both positive and...
