Key managed services trends from SunGard
South Africa’s financial institutions continue to face a wide range of business challenges that are driving the need to manage risk, control costs, accelerate innovation and enhance operational efficiency. As firms strive to meet these growing requirements and build...
Pitney Bowes South Africa offers MYpbVerify
South African consumers are relying more and more on credit. According to the National Credit Regulator (NCR), the number of credit-active consumers is now at 20,29-million, an increase of 0,4% compared to the previous quarter. Based on the growing number of...
Pan-African banking solution demand grows
Standard Bank, Africa’s largest Bank by assets and market capitalisation, is seeing a continuation of demand for its services from international commodity traders and rapidly expanding regional and local businesses in Africa. This follows the withdrawal of several...
Insurers need to gain mobile traction
Leading international research group, Gartner, reported that even though CIOs rated mobility as the third most strategic technology for 2013, a large percentage of mobile projects have still failed to attract end-users in 2014.It believes this can be attributed to a...
Tax document storage solutions in the cloud
Cloud services are a global trend that is gaining popularity with locals too as more and more South Africans become comfortable socialising, transacting and backing up their information online. Now the world of tax has entered the cloud as TaxTim extends its offering...
Gemalto launches laser engraving solution
Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, launches Sealys Colour in Polycarbonate, a remarkable innovation that allows very high quality colour photographs to be permanently embedded into polycarbonate documents such as IDs, driving licenses and passports. Images...
BankservAfrica PoS solution remains secure
A recent investigation conducted by Foregenix, an independent specialised information security, indicates that the Nomad PoS solution, a product from BankservAfrica, was not affected by a network intrusion in the processing environment in 2012. The investigation came...
Legacy transformation and SA insurers
Cloud, data, mobile and social media are all transforming the way consumers interact with their insurers. This represents an exciting opportunity for South African insurers that are willing to invest in new core technology. Historically, South African insurers have...
Wipro, AxiomSL form partnership
Wipro has announced that it has signed a partnership with Axiom Software Laboratories. The partnership between Wipro and AxiomSL seeks to address challenges faced by financial institutions with solutions that offer increased transparency, improved data integrity and a...
Capital investment boosts networks
A new study commissioned by Ericsson shows that increased level of investments in network quality and performance create sustainable competitive advantages and improved financial returns for network operators. The study, carried out by Dr Raul Katz, president of...
Dac rolls out Nintex Workflow for customer
Dac Systems, a Proudly South African national provider of turnkey solutions based on Microsoft products, has successfully integrated Nintex Workflow in order to address critical technical requirements at an established market leading financial and investment house....
Disconnect between developers, companies
Many investment companies realise the importance of access to information and data processing tools to improve the investment decisions they make every day. However, getting a software program that delivers real results for investment firms is easier said than done....