Aug 28, 2018
The oil industry has witnessed extreme crude price volatility in recent years. The dominant causes besides political factors include price speculation, the strengthening of US markets due to their ‘shale revolution’, and the increasing interest to leverage...
Aug 28, 2018
In just a couple of years, the fifth-generation mobile network will be commercially available, promising better connections, faster speeds and lower latency, for those living in a hyper connected world. It’s processing power, for example, has the potential to...
Aug 22, 2018
The unpredictability and pace of change means organisations can’t wait for certainties before committing to new ideas. Yet a new report from Cass Business School and VMware revealed exactly that. By Antonio Oriol Barat, head of cloud IT infrastructure services...
Aug 21, 2018
All around the globe, cities are turning to technology to improve the way they operate and, by extension, the lives of their citizens. These so-called “smart cities” promise to be safer, more efficient, and easier to live in. If they’re to live up to...
Aug 15, 2018
Connecting citizens enables the public sector to communicate effectively with the population, pre-empting certain events and making sure citizens are notified of critical information. But the opportunity goes further than just being able to send and receive...
Aug 14, 2018
Few modes of transport evoke such a sense of history and romanticism as rail. By Gilbert Saggia, MD: East Africa at SAP The first recorded use of rail transport was around 500BC, when ancient Greeks used a rail-like system – most likely powered by humans or...
