The inclusion paradigm: what it means for corporate SA

When you focus on inclusion, EE and BEE will follow naturally, writes Sydwell Shikweni, transformation director at Merchants. The new frontiers of business advocates for transformative measures, which serve a symbol of alliance to customers, suppliers and the...

New forms of interaction drive CRM

The “consumerisation” of markets, the strong, steady growth of e-commerce and the shift to all-things digital in the customer experience, has quite naturally led to an explosion in the number of interactions between brands and consumers. By Roland...

Robots and the changing face of customer experience

Chantel Troskie, customer experience account manager at Oracle South Africa, discusses the direction robots are taking in the field of customer experience. At the most recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, there was much talk about the power of automation...

Data platform trends transform industry

There will be substantial shifts in data platform technologies and methodologies over the next few years, writes Paul Morgan, chief technology officer of Decision Inc. A number of trends are set to change the data landscape, with significant impact on organisations....

Saicom partners with Thinkst Canary

End-to-end telecommunications and networking solutions provider Saicom Voice Services has entered into a strategic partnership with Thinkst Canary to offer a fully-managed honeypot network security service. The service, which complements the company’s existing...

FTTX adds value to communities

South Africa has recently seen fast-paced developments in the implementation of Fiber to the x (FTTX), which includes fibre to the business (FTTB) and fibre to the home (FTTH). FTTX broadband network architecture, which makes use of optical fibre, offers unsurpassed...