Digital offers strong opportunity for SMMEs

South Africa’s National Development Plan (NDP) has indicated that around 90% of employment opportunities in the country will be created by SMMEs by the year 2030. While the public and private sector have numerous programmes and incentive schemes in place to...

Qlik strengthens cloud offerings with Industrial CodeBox

Qlik has acquired Industrial CodeBox, the company behind QVSource, which allows Qlik Sense and QlikView users to include data from cloud-based sources such as social media, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and other web-based APIs into their applications for...

Engen centralises branch offices with Riverbed

Riverbed Technology has announced that global energy company Engen is using Riverbed solutions to centralise remote and branch office (ROBO) IT, and improve productivity, back-up and data security across its multi-national organisation. Riverbed SteelFusion has...

The changing world of digital photography

Image capture and related technology is speeding up exponentially, and changing the world of communication and creativity as we know it, writes Hitendra Naik, director of innovation, Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Intel. It’s estimated that globally more...

M2M benefits for transport, logistics industries

The transport and logistics industry could improve their operation systems should they consider entering the telemetry market and embracing Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technology, writes Greg Hatfield, GM: products and solutions at MTN Business South Africa. The steady...

Understanding the legalities of overtime in SA

Overtime is one of the most contentious issues in labour law, with many employers expecting their employees to be at their beck and call all hours of the day, writes Madelein Taljaard, development manager at Sage HR & Payroll. Many workers, meanwhile, resent being...