Argos, eBay pilot the future of retail

The tie-up between Argos and eBay is the dawn of a new kind of retail environment and could spark more partnerships, according to Associate Professor of Marketing & Strategic Management Scott Dacko. Home Retail Group Plc’s Argos is trialling a partnership with the...

Video surveillance creates opportunities

Video surveillance is increasingly gaining the attention of businesses as a means to reduce crime such as theft and even increase productivity. In earlier days, these companies would identify a suitable security reseller to provide them with a solution that runs on...

Oracle adds cloud marketplace

Continuing its commitment to offer the industry’s broadest and most advanced cloud portfolio, Oracle introduced the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, a global marketplace where partners can publish applications and customers can browse through and discover new solutions to...

Maturing payroll market boosts economy

Payroll in South African businesses has grown and is stealing a great deal more of the corporate limelight than has been the case in the past. This was confirmed by experts in HR and payroll administration recently at the South African Payroll Association’s (SAPA)...

Ensuring EPMO runs smoothly

An enterprise project management office (EPMO) is a small team tasked with ensuring that the project portfolio is delivering its anticipated benefits according to plan, and is constantly aligned to current strategy, says Mike Shorten, senior consultant, Barnstone...

Lean and mean a prerequisite for BI

Many IT markets work in cycles. For example, the centralised infrastructure of the mainframe was replaced with the broad de-centralising effect of the PC, and the pendulum has swung back to centralised again as cloud services on central hosts take over. In the...