Digital technology at the heart of progress

2015 was a watershed year according to Professor Barry Dwolatzky, director of the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE). Working to ready Braamfontein as the digital hub of Johannesburg, he says that 2016 is time to ‘take the great leap forward’...

Thinking of building an app?

Craig Terblanche, regional director of OutSystems SA, discusses exactly what developers and business owners need to know before dipping their toes into the choppy waters of the app development world. In response to a business pain, you’ve dreamed up a great new...

DevOps creates agility in business

Creating diverse partnerships to further business opportunities remains a big challenge for organisations today. Agility / DevOps in the business context encourage businesses to respond to rapid changes in the internal and external environment, without losing sight of...

Small does not equate with simple in mobile apps

The case for developing mobile apps is clear cut. However, the route to successfully developing and maintaining an app is less clear because of hidden complexities that are masked by the misconception that apps are small and therefore simple, says Mornay Leander, user...

The xPaaS revolution and the rise of BizDevOps

Red Hat’s head of middleware Mike Piech talks about middleware meeting the cloud. Platform-as-a-service, or PaaS, is an increasingly popular cloud offering that enables developers and IT operations professionals to build and maintain applications while avoiding...

Key factors for successfully managing test environments

Testing teams today are challenged with unstable, fragmented environments due to fast changing business needs, and the majority of testers’ time is wasted on fixing environmental issues, writes Harsha Germellu, regional practice manager for Africa: Testing at Wipro....