Harnessing apps to improve service delivery

With the increasing affordability and pervasiveness of smartphones and tablets, apps have rapidly become a part of everyday life. From games and messaging to banking, handy tools and more, apps have revolutionised the way people interact on a social level. As mobility...

Industry leaders are not always suitable

Those of us who work in the IT industry have all heard the old ad slogan from the 1970s: “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”. It sounds a bit old-fashioned now, but the truth is that many people still default to buying from the global industry leaders, says Réan...

Gumtree: Free WiFi as a business strategy

Gumtree South Africa recently partnered with non-profit organisation Project Isizwe to bring free WiFi to impoverished communities across the country through hundreds of Free Internet Zones (FIZ). Johan Nel, country manager of Gumtree South Africa, tell us the reasons...

Explaining branch converged infrastructure

Enterprises are always looking to take their business to the next level, and one of the most effective ways to grow is to open new branch offices, says Brent Lees, senior product marketing manager for EMEA of Riverbed Technology. The ability to have remote offices in...

Mota-Engil Africa rolls out Integr8 solution

Integr8, an established leading provider of managed ICT services, has completed a complex, enterprise-wide virtual server and storage infrastructure integration project for global multi-disciplinary engineering company Mota-Engil.  Africa is a natural market for the...

Lindsay Saker uses Integr8 services

Integr8, a leading ICT infrastructure and managed services provider and division of Business Connexion (BCX) Group, has provided core infrastructure upgrade services to support a Telkom fibre optics installation at several sites making up the Lindsay Saker vehicle...