Dariel Solutions has been selected by the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) as one of eight companies to represent South Africa at the prestigious CeBIT Global Conferences 2010, taking place from 2-6 March in Hannover, Germany.

It is estimated that on average, software contains 15 bugs per 1 000 lines of code – most of which are only discovered after the programme has gone live and is causing loss of revenue and customer dissatisfaction. To help combat this, GuruHut has partnered with Parasoft to bring two products to market to identify and rectify bugs before the software is rolled out.

Manufacturers of PCs and notebooks face quite a challenge in differentiating their products. After all, they all use components which are similar or exactly the same and run operating systems which are identical. The only real opportunities for differentiation lie in the physical packaging of those components – and the software which is bundled with the machine.

Gateway Communications, the largest Sub-Sahara African provider of carrier and business data services to mobile operators, has selected Post Vision Technology’s project management solution, Project Portfolio Office (PPO) to obtain greater visibility into its host of projects.

Research In Motion (RIM) has launched a new services platform for developers that will enable them to streamline business processes and build highly responsive, location-aware, revenue-generating applications for BlackBerry® smartphones. The new services platform will offer advertising, payment, content push and new location services.

HP has announced powerful telecom software that can help service providers tap Web 2.0 to spark growth in wireless revenue.

Automating time consuming, manual and typically paper-driven processes is the bread and butter of a whole sector of the business software industry.

In order for a strategy to be successful, it needs to be effectively translated into tangible outcomes. This is achieved through implementing projects.

With a plethora of enterprise project management (EPM) solutions on the market and numerous suppliers and companies implementing these solutions, there is often a debate as to which is the best EPM solution. All these products have benefits and the real debate is not necessarily about which EPM solution is the best, but rather which is the best solution fit for a specific organisation.

The rapid rate of change in the information technology industry and the market place has created enormous strains upon existing organisational resources, be it time, money, staff or materials. Project management has been identified as one of the several workable solutions to making better use of existing resources, by getting work to flow horizontally as well as vertically within a company.

Business analysis helps organisations improve the way they conduct business in order to reduce overall costs, increase the efficiency of resources, improve customer service and most importantly, understand the company’s issues, needs and problems.