Ensuring that agile delivers quality

May 26, 2015

As the agile revolution continues to sweep South Africa, it’s clear that many companies are finding that quality issues are creeping into their development environment. Some even start to question whether agile has some inherent incompatibility with quality. Nothing...

Four trends shaping the UX design space

May 5, 2015

We’re all attracted to products and services that are easy to use, bring us enjoyment and improve our lives. We can’t explain why a product is well designed or why we like to use it – it just is and we just do. It’s a decision we make subconsciously without realising that a lot of thought and research went into the product – through a processes known as customer-centric design, says Reynhardt Uys, associate consultant, Customer Experience and User Experience, at BSG.

Standardise platforms for digital change

May 5, 2015

Organisations today are faced with the need to engage with customers in realtime and develop products and solutions dynamically to meet changing requirements, says AJ Hartenberg, portfolio manager: Data Centre Services at T-Systems in South Africa. The challenge lies...

Five tips for creating apps

Apr 15, 2015

Today’s business environment is recognising that communication is key to driving business performance. While marketing is still perceived as advertising and branding and so on, communication has evolved to include technological software developments that gather...

SOA key for business agility, transformation

Apr 14, 2015

The term service oriented architecture (SOA) has fallen out of the everyday IT lexicon in recent years and replaced by the more on-trend buzzwords of cloud computing, big data, mobile-first and the social enterprise, says Saurabh Kumar, MD of In2IT Technologies South...

It’s time for a mobile app strategy

Apr 14, 2015

Mobility brings improvements to the enterprise in terms of efficiency and lower operational costs. This means that by investing in a mobile strategy, employees are given the tools needed to make better and faster decisions. Is delivering mobile applications really...