Sep 27, 2017
Market consolidation is becoming more prevalent in the South African telecommunications market as operators look to build the capabilities required to position themselves as end-to-end ICT and digital service providers. Typical examples of this, says Frost &...
Sep 27, 2017
Kathy Gibson at SUSEcon, Prague — Enterprises are embracing the concepts of software defined infrastructure and hybrid cloud, which plays into the open source value proposition. “At the same time, developers and IT people are coming closer together and IT...
Sep 27, 2017
Robo-advice and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are fast-tracking new investment opportunities at a lower cost than traditional investment options — disrupting financial institutions’ approach to customer interaction. These automated platforms,...
Sep 27, 2017
It’s top-of-mind in South Africa at present but, like any other potentially damaging business risk, reputational risk must be accounted for and mitigated against. In a corporate sense, reputational risk is defined as the potential for losses in terms of lost...
Sep 27, 2017
In recent months, the cybersecurity industry has seen many organisations fall victim to global cyberattacks with the WannaCry and ExPetr ransomware attacks proving that it doesn’t always take a hugely sophisticated targeted attack to cause extensive damage....
Sep 27, 2017
Global multinationals seeking to invest in Africa are no longer automatically opting to first dip their toes in South African waters before spreading their wings to the rest of the continent, but are increasingly setting up shop directly in the market they wish to...