Acaveo named a ‘cool vendor’
Soarsoft International, a specialist of Information Governance, archive, migration, messaging and collaboration solutions and distributor of Acaveo solutions Africa and the Middle East, has announced the inclusion of Acaveo in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Information...
New ISO standard for records management
There is no doubt that information is the very lifeblood of an organisation. Through rules and acts around the management of this information, such as the King III report and the Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act, it needs to be more carefully managed than...
Control data at its source, grow compliance
As data volumes increase and information is generated by more and more sources, organisations have a pressing need to gain better control of their data, particularly data housed on-site and in hybrid or cloud-based solutions, says Chris Hathaway, director at Soarsoft...
Business rescue is not a magic salve
With some large local operations going into business rescue recently, the concept itself is probably still novel to many in South Africa, writes Gareth Cremen, a partner at Ramsay Webber Attorneys. Reports in the business press suggest that shortly after Leon Kirkinis...
Collibra named leader in data governance
Master Data Management (MDM), the official distributor of Collibra in South Africa, has announced that Collibra, a pioneer in creating business data authority solutions to enhance data value for the enterprise, was named a leader in the new report, The Forrester Wave:...
Aptean earns TEC certification
Aptean, represented in South Africa by Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings, has announced that its Ross ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution has been certified by Technology Evaluation Centres (TEC) for its process manufacturing suite. Rifle-Shot Performance...
Practicing good information governance
In today’s information-driven world, data is at the heart of enabling businesses to operate and innovate effectively. However, the exponential growth of data, combined with increasing regulation, has left many organisations struggling with the complexity of compliance...
IGF summit to keep Web on track
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will take place in Johannesburg on 17 and 18 July 2014 and is hosted by the Internet Society of SA - Gauteng Chapter (ISOC-Gauteng).The meeting has been strategically scheduled to take place after the African Internet Governance...
The fiduciary duties of employees
For employees who think a fiduciary duty - a legal duty to act solely in another party’s interests - exists only between company directors and the company, this is not so, writes Gareth Cremen, partner at Ramsay Webber Attorneys. A fiduciary duty can exist between a...
SMEs face unique POPI challenges
The biggest challenge around POPI for the SME is a lack understanding around the difficulties associated with becoming POPI compliant, says John Mc Loughlin, MD of J2 Software. For SMEs, as with so many things in business, keeping things simple is critical. “Becoming...
POPI will boost IT governance
The new Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act is going to force organisations to change their attitudes towards IT security. Data privacy which is built upon solid IT security practices will make real business sense very soon and South Africans are set to...
Why your staff should know the CPA
You may know the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) – but are all your client-facing staff members familiar with it? If your own Terms and Conditions on your Web site and company documentation don’t comply - and your social media team is unfamiliar with the Act – your...