What the fastest-growing resellers do differently

Kathy Gibson reports from Sage Future for Partners in Amsterdam –  Resellers that are winning in the AI age are those that use the technology to make their service proposition more compelling for customers. Jordaan Burger, MD of Sage South Africa, believes that a...

Economic activity strained in October 2026, but worst may be over 

South Africa’s economic activity remained under pressure in October 2026, as rising fuel prices continued to weigh on businesses and households. However, easing international oil prices could bring some much-needed relief towards year-end, according to the...

SA SMEs go digital, but barrier to growth is operational support

Among the urban, digitally active South African SMMEs surveyed for Amazon’s Small Business Digital Adoption Report,  99,6% use the Internet for business and 86% generate online sales. However, only 32% of active online sellers use a major marketplace, highlighting a...

Sage extends payroll, embraces HR transformation

Kathy Gibson reports from Sage Future for Partners in Amsterdam – The African market is the leading region for Sage’s human resources (HR) and payroll solutions. Sage has more than 65 000 HR and payroll customers in Africa and the Middle East, and is represented in 44...

New AI agent platform from IBM and Microsoft

IBM and Microsoft have announced Imagine Enterprise, an agentic platform designed to help enterprises build, run, and govern AI agents that help people execute industry-specific processes. IBM Consulting and Microsoft have combined their technologies and expertise...

AMD expands leadership at the foundation of AI

AMD says that 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now powering the host infrastructure for Google Cloud TPU 8tx – the first cloud Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) system to deliver hardware-enforced confidential computing. The expanded collaboration between the...