Nov 2, 2015
While the retail and hospitality industries are gearing up to hire more staff to cope with the increase in activity over the holiday season, they may be putting their businesses, clients and other employees at risk if they do not carry out criminal record checks on...
Nov 2, 2015
Globally the construction industry has been labelled as a late adopter, but the advent of mobility and resulting trends such as bring your own device (BYOD) has led to the industry using these devices in a manner adverse to the industry’s effective management....
Nov 2, 2015
In a market driven by data and the need to source, store and retrieve information in realtime, the ability to audit and control this data is paramount. The reason, say technology and cloud service experts, is to ensure that data can be protected and exploited, and...
Nov 2, 2015
The legal framework for Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa (BBBEE) has recently been significantly reformed through several amendments to the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act and new “generic” Codes of Good Practice (which set...
Nov 2, 2015
For organisations within the transportation sector, the use of intelligent predictive maintenance platforms – connected to a variety of structured and unstructured data sources – can unleash some powerful business advantages. Case studies show that...
Nov 2, 2015
Old-fashioned attempts to protect data by building impenetrable firewalls are impractical in the age of big data. It’s just too expensive and, anyway, business success increasingly means opening up to customers and business partners. By Godfrey Kutumela, head:...