IBM, Maersk digitise global supply chain

IBM, Maersk digitise global supply chain

Maersk and IBM have set up TradeLens, jointly developed by the two companies to apply blockchain to the world’s global supply chain. TradeLens is the result of a collaboration agreement between Maersk and IBM, a blockchain-enabled shipping solution designed to...

Give us the right information, say B2B buyers

Today’s customers spend around two-thirds of any business-to-business (B2B) buying journey gathering, processing and de-conflicting information. However, much of this learning happens without direct sales rep involvement, according to new research from Gartner....

Network outages bring government services down

Outages have brought government IT services down twice in the last week: the first caused by power failures and the second by poor continuity processes. The State IT Agency (SITA) network was down for most of the working day on Friday 10 August, from 08h00 to 14h30,...

No investment without property rights

President Ramaphosa recently deployed four investment envoys with a target of raising $100-billion in investments over the next five years. One of these envoys, former finance minister Trevor Manuel, said that explaining the “land issue” to investors has...

Viewing patterns swing to on-demand video

As viewers continue to shift to viewing television content on an on-demand basis, TV and video consumption is changing across the leading five European markets: UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Linear TV viewing time declined, year over year, across all five...

Printer sales end 12-month decline

Sales of printer hardware through distributors in Western Europe (WE) during Q2 2018 were up by 3% year-on-year – the only positive year-on-year performance for imaging products in the past year, according to the latest distribution data published by context....