2021 trends in enterprise open source

We’re now in the third year of our The State of Enterprise Open Source report in which we probe the use of and attitudes about enterprise open source. By Gordon Haff, senior principal product marketing manager at Red Hat This year we conducted interviews with...

Sector innovation creates work from home call centre jobs

No single organisation – whether government, corporate or civil society – can solve South Africa’s unemployment crisis alone. With nearly two-thirds (63,2%) of the country’s young people not in work or education, a co-ordinated effort is...

Thames Water UK extends partnership with SA consultancy Explore-AI

The consultancy agreement between Explore-AI, a Cape Town based technology consulting company and British water utility Thames Water has been extended, with Explore-AI confirmed as a prefered Data Science partner. In 2019, Explore-AI, the consulting division within...

AI tools help legal firms work more effectively

The past year reshaped the legal landscape, as many South African law firms were forced to adopt new technologies to survive. The transition to remote working, document sharing, automation, and virtual conference calls, changed the way many legal professionals...

The constructive dismissal paradigm

The rules that govern constructive dismissal haven’t undergone any major changes over the past three years, a fact that should give any employee pause before they embark down this difficult road. With many other forms of employment legislation, the onus lies on...

AI and edge computing: a match made in IT heaven

Artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing are certainly both industry buzzwords in their own right. Implementation of AI by businesses has grown 270% in the past four years, while enterprises will spend an average of 30% of their IT budgets on edge cloud...