Jan 16, 2017
Retailers are grappling to meet the demands of consumers and must transform quickly to inspire loyalty with customers who are hopping from store to web to mobile to social, and back again, according to new research from IBM. IBM’s IBV study of 15 000 Generation...
Jan 16, 2017
Stellenbosch-based EMSS Group has invested in mobile and IoT app specialists Polymorph. According to Polymorph CEO Richard Barry, the deal has unlocked significant commercial opportunities for both Polymorph and EMSS. “Our experience in IoT app development, UX...
Jan 16, 2017
Total spending on IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switches) for deployment in cloud environments will increase by 18,2% in 2017 to reach $44,2-billion. This is according to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation...
Jan 16, 2017
Swift has launched a proof of concept (PoC) to explore whether distributed ledger technology (DLT) can be used by banks to improve the reconciliation of their nostro databases in realtime, optimising their global liquidity. Under the current correspondent banking...
Jan 16, 2017
More than 40% of data science tasks will be automated by 2020, resulting in increased productivity and broader usage of data and analytics by citizen data scientists, according to Gartner. Gartner defines a citizen data scientist as a person who creates or generates...
Jan 16, 2017
Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew by 8,1% year over year to $8,4-billion in the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16). According to the International Data...
