Disruption a hinderance to success
Kathy Gibson reports from CeBIT, Hanover – Disruption creates turbulence for any company, and changing business models can have a temporary effect on a company’s bottom line – and even a giant like SAP is no exception. “Business model innovation and the idea of...Why do so many big data projects fail?
Big data and analytics has reached the peak of expectations and is well on its way into the trough of despond, according to Gartner’s hype cycle – but why has it disappointed? Dave Goldberg, CEO of Survey Monkey, says the technology has started to slide because it has failed to live up to its promise. But there are ways to make big data work as intended. Kathy Gibson reports from CeBIT.
Financial data tops malware hit list
For the fourth year running, programs designed to steal users’ logins, passwords and other confidential data remain on top of the list of the most widespread malware distributed by e-mail, according to Kaspersky Lab. The Internet security experts summarised...ICT SMME workshop set to resume
The Department of Telecommunication and Postal Services, in conjunction with the Department of Small Business Development, will resume its hosting of a two day workshop on the 23 and 24 March 2015. The workshop is an attempt to gain comprehensive understanding of...
Web sites fall to ISIS attacks
Police and FBI are investigating defacement attacks on numerous US Web sites, in which attackers placed an ISIS flag banner on Web site home pages and played an Arabic song in the background. All the affected sites appear to have one thing in common: they are all built on the WordPress content management platform. WordPress is by far the most popular CMS. As of February 2015, more than 23% of the Web sites in the world were built on the WordPress Open Source platform.