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...

Small increase in unemployment for Q3

The official unemployment rate was 33,7% in the third quarter of 2026, according to the quarterly Labour Force Survey for the third quarter of 2026. There was an increase of 101 000 in the number of employed persons to 16,8-million, and the number of unemployed...

Partnering adds value in an AI-first world

Kathy Gibson reports from Sage Future for Partners in Amsterdam – ERP software partners are under immense pressure to change the way they do business. “We are at an inflexion point in the mid-market,” says Pieter Bensch, MD and executive vice-president: UK, Ireland...