Automation critical for business success

Organisations that do not embrace modern business automation will flounder and struggle to survive. This is among the findings of a CA-sponsored study, “The State of Automation”, by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). The global state of automation...

Microsoft, CPGR launch medical research platform

Microsoft, through its 4Afrika initiative, and the Centre for Proteomic & Genomic Research (CPGR) have embarked on a joint project bringing together the intelligent cloud and genomics research to create a scalable, cost-effective technology platform to power...

Bank Zero runs on an open IBM platform

Africa’s newest digital bank, Bank Zero, has selected IBM to deliver an open-source based banking platform. As Bank Zero sets out to provide a fully digital banking experience for customers on their mobile devices, its core banking applications will run on IBM...

Competition essential for lower electricity prices

A market for electricity has a salutary effect on the behaviour of all the participants in the generation and supply of electricity. Generating plants, transmission grids, distribution grids, wholesalers and retailers, all behave differently when they compete for...

Manufacturing in the era of Industry 4.0

Kathy Gibson is at the Deloitte Risk Conference in Sandton – When it comes to enabling Industry 4.0, the state has a major role to play, and we could learn from how Singapore has turned itself into a knowledge economy, attracting new manufacturing opportunities....

Bank Zero gets off the ground

Michael Jordaan’s long-anticipated Bank Zero has been registered as a mutual bank effective 17 August 2018. The bank – which is more than 45% black-owned and 20% women-owned – was granted its licence, has integrated with the national payments systems...