What SA needs to do to fix manufacturing

For South Africa to become a top-class manufacturing nation, South Africa needs to fix some fundamental problems while nurturing skills and driving demand. Coenraad Bezuidenhout, executive director of the Manufacturing Circle, told delegates to the Siemens Future of...

IBM, Microsoft collaborate on cloud

IBM and Microsoft are working together to provide their respective enterprise software on Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. As the adoption of hybrid cloud computing accelerates, this relationship will give clients, partners and developers more choice in the cloud,...

Digital migration deadline set for 2015

The Department of Communications has set June 2015 as the deadline to begin digital migration, but has offered no guidelines as to when the process should be completed.

Siemens helps to drive SA’s manufacturing

Industry, government and industrial labour need to develop a shared purpose to drive the manufacturing industry in South Africa. Raymond Padayachee, vice-president: process industries and drives at Siemens Southern and Eastern Africa, says Siemens is prepared to take...

Use your vote to improve the channel

ICT resellers are urged to use the power of their vote in the 2014 Channelwise Awards to ensure they get the best possible products and services from their vendors and distributors. Online voting for SME and Consumer resellers in the 2014 Channelwise Awards is now...

Staying in touch with overseas workers

E-mail is still the primary method used by businesses to maintain engagement with their employees posted around the world on assignment. The recent Global Mobility Survey, commissioned by the Santa Fe Group, identified that 82.7% of businesses rely heavily on e-mail...