The power of digital offerings

Entrepreneurs and commercial businesses that pull more technology levers will improve their bottom lines and deepen their market penetration in the future. Those that don’t will either be left behind or forced to adopt the changes to survive. Standard Bank cautions...

Embracing digital disruption

The Internet of things is driving the need for organisations to transform into digital businesses and this is disrupting business operations like never before. Being globally competitive means being able to make rapid business decisions. For companies this means...

Technology is an SME’s best friend

Being a small business is not easy. As many as eighty percent of new businesses in South Africa fail within the first two years, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. The combined effects of this are being felt: according to the latest GEM report on South...

The IoE creates generative business value

Advanced sensor technology connected to the so-called Internet of Everything (IoE) is forging unusual business relationships between companies, and generating entirely new forms of value. Mihail Botez, IoT Strategic Product sales specialist at Cisco and Vishal...

Bridge the copper and fibre network gap

While many don’t want to admit it, there are those dark recesses of your network that are still copper based, the areas you have left alone for decades because the alternative is to rip it all out and replace it. But this is a fallacy fabricated by companies looking...

Overcoming obstacles to ECM adoption

It is said that for an airplane to crash, a chain reaction of at least a handful of critical events has to occur, says Peter Reid, head of SharePoint Solutions at Intervate, a T-Systems company. One on-board issue, in isolation, is usually something that can be...