Building the foundations of an Industry 4.0 network

The first industrial revolution was based on the use of steam to power machines. The second centred on the use of electricity to supply energy to assembly lines. The third came about with the use of electronics and IT to further automate production. But all of that is...

How SMAC can increase competitiveness

Business management solution providers are under enormous pressure to reinvent their platforms as the upsurge of social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) technologies threatens to make traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) software irrelevant. That’s...

Don’t ignore these enterprise megatrends

Guy Whitcroft, CEO at Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa, examines the megatrends driving enterprise computing. Technological change is the heartbeat of the IT industry and while it is easy to get sucked into the promise of self-driving cars, augmented reality and drones...

Innovating for entrepreneurial success

Getting a foothold on the ladder to business success can take little more than a smartphone and the right attitude, as a growing ecosystem of auto spares resellers is proving. With Jonathan Ngwenya’s chain of auto salvage yards at its hub, a network of...

Lessons for SA’s SMEs from Pokémon Go

Enterprise development manager Scott Zambonini from Seda Nelson Mandela Bay ICT Incubator (SNII), says several lessons from the gaming phenomenon, Pokémon Go, are relevant to South African small businesses. Location-based mobile game Pokémon Go is perhaps the best...

Going viral: influencing solution adoption

The modern conundrum. A business is facing a complex challenge, a need to transform productivity, reduce costs or drive sales, writes Paul Morgan, chief technical officer at Decision Inc. The result is investment into a solution which addresses this challenge using...