Mar 14, 2019
Former South African player Bryan Habana is the latest rugby icon to be announced as a Mastercard ambassador for Rugby World Cup 2019. Habana, part of the South African team that won Rugby World Cup 2007, and one of the top test try scorers of all time, will help...
Mar 12, 2019
Accenture has revealed its plans to transform fan engagement for Springbok supporters following the launch of SA Rugby’s new responsive digital fan platform. The reimagining and building of the new digital fan platform forms part of Accenture Digital’s...
Mar 12, 2019
It is estimated that the spaza shop market in South Africa is valued at around R40 billion per year and that 90% or more of the transactions are in cash. This market is growing at around 10% each year. Despite this statistic of unaccounted cash, South Africa’s...
Mar 8, 2019
Nedbank has incorporated a virtual assistant into its banking app. HeyNed, a digital virtual personal assistant and concierge service, uses a network of more than 350 000 product and service providers to linking app users to what they need. In addition to the...
Mar 8, 2019
Mobile wallets may offer some convenience, but until they offer a broad range of simple, seamless transaction capabilities, and give users more value than that of their cash alone, they will still lack consumer ‘stickiness’. This is according to Kobus du...
Mar 8, 2019
More than 35% of the power required to run a building is consumed in one place: the central chilled water plant. While there is value in connecting the building management system (BMS) to schedule plant run time, very little beats central plant optimisation (CPO)...