From demo to done: BI solution built during lockdown

Business intelligence (BI) software distributor AIGS Insights, in collaboration with Bongani Rainmaker, a project management company, delivered a complete reporting and BI solution to a customer using Yellowfin technology – from initial demonstration to full...

Nedbank’s Avo scales to over 100 000 users

Avo, launched at the height of the national lockdown, has surpassed the 100 000 customer mark in September 2020 and continues to evolve alongside its market. Focusing on the balance of the platform strategy, Avo Business has signed up over 1 600 merchants as demand...

Building a human firewall to address insider threats

During the first half of 2020, the FortiGuard Labs team found that evolving work environments and a greater reliance on personal devices presented new opportunities for cyber criminals to exploit enterprise networks. By Renee Tarun, deputy CISO/ vice-president:...

Shifting collaboration to the cloud post-Covid

As the ‘Covid effect’ continues to accelerate the transition to the cloud, businesses need to put in place a deployment or migration strategy to ensure business as usual. Anne-Meine Gramsma, chief commercial officer at ContactCenter4All, discusses the case...

Why your mobile strategy should be top-of-mind

Mobile app usage increased by 40% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2020 and in-app spending hit a record high of $27-billion. We’re using food delivery apps to order dinner because we can’t visit restaurants, streaming movies because cinemas are...

Data breaches becoming more common

Another day, another data breach. South African businesses are becoming more susceptible to cyberattacks and seem to be easy targets for criminals. By J2 Software CEO John Mc Loughlin Data breaches are now a common phenomenon with Nedbank, Momentum, Lombard Insurance,...