Technology drives digital maturity

Technology plays an important role in an organisation’s digital journey, and can indicate a company’s digital maturity. Forrester has released research examining the current state of digital business and the maturity of technologies relevant for business...

Steady growth for enterprise WLANs

The worldwide enterprise wireless local area network (WLAN) market grew 6,5% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2017 (4Q17) with revenues of $1,5-billion, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wireless LAN Tracker. Enterprise...

Gender diversity key to cybersecurity success

According to new research from Forrester, the cybersecurity industry is facing a skills shortage that comes along with a massive gender bias — and it is in desperate need of a change. Despite its urgent and ever-growing importance, the industry is projected to...

Get your small business VAT-ready

Viresh Harduth, vice-president: new customer acquisition at Sage Africa & Middle East, talks about how to avoid major headaches in preparing for the VAT increase. On 1 April 2018, Value-Added Tax (VAT) will increase for the first time in 25 years, from 14% to 15%....

SA goes backward in cloud readiness

South Africa has been ranked 15th out of 24 leading IT economies in the 2018 Global Cloud Computing Scorecard released today by BSA The Software Alliance. The study, which assesses cloud computing policies around the globe, found that South Africa has dropped from a...

Lenovo explores new growth avenues

Kathy Gibson at Lenovo’s 2018 strategy briefing – Lenovo has come from humble beginnings as a domestic Chinese PC manufacturer, but it is fast becoming a force to be reckoned with in the global IT market. Today, Lenovo is a $43-billion company, and ranks...