May 23, 2013
Companies with high-performing procurement organisations are driving better bottom line results. According to an IBM study announced at the Smarter Commerce Global Summit, these organisations report profit margins of 7,12% as compared to just 5,83% for companies with...
May 23, 2013
Companies doing business on the African continent have identified transport and logistics infrastructure as the most challenging constraint to business operations, followed closely by bribery and corruption. According to Hennie Heymans, MD of DHL Express South...
May 23, 2013
Worldwide IT operations management (ITOM) software revenue totalled $18-billion in 2012, up 4,8% from $17-billion in 2011, according to final results from Gartner. However, Gartner points out that the “Big Four” ITOM vendors – IBM, CA Technologies,...
May 23, 2013
Worldwide semiconductor revenues decreased by 2,2% year-over-year to $295-billion in 2012, according to the latest version of the International Data Corporation (IDC) Semiconductor Application Forecaster (SAF). The industry witnessed a slowdown during the second half...
May 22, 2013
Increasing the use of properly licensed software would have a greater impact on the economy in South Africa than allowing similar growth in the use of pirated software. This is according to new study from the BSA/The Software Alliance and business school INSEAD,...
May 22, 2013
South African IT students would love to work for Google or Microsoft, but would also be happy with one of the telecommunications companies. This is one of the results from Universum South Africa’s annual survey of more than 16 900 tertiary students from all 23...
