Store wars: retail shopping trends in 2016

Robbie Johnson, retail manager at Drive Control Corporation (DCC), explores directions and trends for the retail industry Despite the fact that the digital age has encouraged more people to shop and browse products online, physical stores are still, surprisingly, the...

Enermatics for effective municipal management

Many of the difficulties ordinary South Africans experience with utility services stem from ineffective management of many of the country’s 262 municipalities.  Enermatics, an established provider of smart metering technology and reseller of power to end users,...

Absa pilots data analytics platform

Absa Bank has launched an internal pilot of its social media and wider unstructured data analytics platform, Barclays Pronto, to select colleagues. Built in-house and entirely on open source technology, Barclays Pronto brings the voice of customers and other users...

Smart Money Movement a boon for SMEs

Sage, the market leader for integrated accounting, payroll, and payment systems has launched a Smart Money Movement solution which offers small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the ability to collect money, make payments, and reconcile effortlessly, through a...

Insurers need to get their [data] act together

Ashley Thomas, assistant executive for insurance software solutions at Innovation Group South Africa, argues that there is a big drive for insurance industry players to clean up their data. Big data has been a topical issue for a number of years and as the need for...

Putting power in the members’ hands

The advent and implementation of new technologies is seeing transparency and control of health, pensions and life insurance schemes being put back in the hands of the schemes’ members or policy holders. Richard Firth, CEO of MIP Holdings, says technology can...