Tools maximise marketing spend

Kathy Gibson reports from Reimagine 2015 – Dynamics Marketing is a massive solution that can help companies re-imagine their marketing operations. Chris Barry, CRM director at Mint Management Technologies, explains that marketing departments need to understand the...

Microsoft eases app integration

Kathy Gibson reports from Reimagine 2015 – Microsoft is determined to re-invent productivity to empower people and companies to do more. Jesper Lachance Reabild, who works at the Microsoft development centre in Copenhagen, points out that the company has made a major...

SA banks feel the regulatory pressure

The heat has been turned up on capital and liquidity requirements, systemic risk, conduct and supervision over the last five years in the EMA region and this is reflective of the similar pressures in South Africa and many of the countries in the rest of Africa. These...

MTN grows data, money revenue

MTN has reported 1,8% subscriber growth to 227,5-million for the quarter ended 31 March 2015. While the company added 4,1-million subscribers across its operations, this wasn’t reflected in the South African market, where muted growth is blamed on delays in engaging a...

Azure gets a boost with app competition

Microsoft is running an app development competition to encourage young developers to explore the world of mobility on the Azure platform. The Openness Ideas competition is for developers that have created or want to create a mobile application with an Azure backend....

Massive growth for cloud infrastructure

Total cloud IT infrastructure spending (server, disk storage and Ethernet switch) will grow by 21% year-over-year to $32-billion in 2015, accounting for approximately 33% of all IT infrastructure spending – which will be up from about 28% in 2014. According to...