SA’s small businesses are resilient
mall businesses continue to display resilience in challenging times, with 83% growing their revenue over the past year and 90% optimistic about their future growth. This is according to new research from Xero, shown in its 2025 State of Small Business Report. Despite...
BETI reaches its lowest level in 2025
The BankservAfrica Economic Transactions Index (BETI), measuring the value of all electronic transactions cleared through BankservAfrica on a monthly basis at seasonally adjusted real prices, slipped back in April 2025. Despite global setbacks, positive factors are...
AI and the move to real copilots
Kathy Gibson reports - Technology innovations are constant, and have brought us a long way in what is, in reality, just a few years. Trainer Warren Shaw speaks at a Pinnacle event for SME partners about complementary opposites: these are not simply two separate forces...
Windows 11 is key for broad GenAI adoption
Kathy Gibson reports - Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is arguably going to have a more profound impact on the IT and business world than any innovation since the Internet. But, while users across the globe are itching to benefit from GenAI value, a lot of...
Enterprises battle to recover as identities come under attack
There's an emerging global identity crisis as cybercriminals double down on exploiting user identities to compromise enterprises worldwide. According to the 2024 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index from IBM X-Force, in 2023 cybercriminals saw more opportunities to "log...
AI sets top supply chain organisations apart
Top performing supply chain organisations are investing in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to optimize their processes at more than twice the rate of low performing peers, according to a survey by Gartner. The survey also revealed that the best...
GenAI will drive consolidated customer-facing roles
By 2027, 30% of the Fortune 500 will consolidate postpurchase tasks such as expansion, service, success and renewal into a unified customer-facing employee role, according to Gartner. Generative AI (GenAI) promises to automate greater portions of customer service...
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre accelerates quantum computing exploration
Australia's Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre will add the NvidiaCUDA Quantum platform accelerated by Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips to its National Supercomputing and Quantum Computing Innovation Hub. Researchers at the Perth-based center will leverage CUDA...
MSSA to hold online inter-school provincial championships
Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) will hold the 13th Online Inter-school Provincial Championships on 3 March 2024. An important feature of this championship is that it is open to any learner, whether or not the school is affiliated or not. However, approval from the...
Alternative data market set for 50% CAGR
The global alternative data market size is anticipated to reach $135,72-billion by 2030, according to a new report by Grand View Research. The market is expected to expand at a CAGR of 50,6% from 2024 to 2030. The increasing emphasis on gaining alpha from hedge funds...
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Upskilling your workforce: an investment that pays
Implementing the right training and development programme can bring far-reaching benefits to a company. Upskilling employees is an investment that can yield significant returns for a company, says Mark Wilson, MD of Syspro. What if you could increase employee...
3M aims to heighten visual hacking awareness
As corporate South Africa gets to grips with the implications of the Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPIA), 3M has embarked on a campaign to raise awareness about the threat posed by visual hacking. It will be launching Visual Hacking Awareness Week from 21...
Strategising successful IaaS deployment in the enterprise
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is flourishing as one of the fastest growing categories in public IT cloud services with global IaaS markets expected to reach USD$59 billion by 2023 according to Market Research Future (MRFR). Key to this trend, however, is a...
A payments system taken for granted – because it just works
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about systems taken for granted because they’ve always been there and they’ve always worked. By Martin Grunewald, executive head: payments business at BankservAfrica Take the load shedding that we experienced in the first months of 2019...
Quality assurance from within
The World Quality Report by Capgemini, Sogeti and Micro Focus that surveyed more than 1 700 executives across 10 different countries found that the role of quality assurance (QA) has changed. It has shifted its focus towards the customer, becoming the enabler of...
Social Impact and Skills Development Contribute to BCX B-BBEE Level One Status.
BCX has achieved a B-BBEE Level One contributor status. The change comes as a result of parent company Telkom being granted B-BBEE facilitator status by the Office of the Presidency for the full share of 40,50%% held in Telkom South Africa, with a 20,19% black female...
Intergreatme raises R27m via crowdfunding
mergent South African regtech player Intergreatme has raised over R27-million - R3-million over its original target - in just 72 hours, following its launch last Tuesday of its public equity drive via Uprise Africa's crowdfunding platform. Most of the initial 120...
Changing workplaces: collaboration is in the detail
Can a workplace encourage more collaboration? Dell Technologies embarked on a journey to find out and give its employees more chances to interact. How would you define collaboration? In essence, it means to work together, but at the broadest sense collaboration...
Call for New Einstein Forum ambassadors
The Next Einstein Forum (NEF), Africa's global forum for science, launches its call for a new class of NEF Ambassadors, young champions of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and social science in their countries. The NEF Ambassadors, one from each...
SUSE transforms storage with containerised and cloud workload support
SUSE has introduced SUSE Enterprise Storage 6, the latest release of its software-defined storage solution powered by Ceph technology. The new SUSE Enterprise Storage enables IT organisations to seamlessly adapt to changing business demands while reducing IT...
Senior C# Developer – Western Cape Cape Town Region
We have an exciting opportunity for skilled C# Developers to work with us in our Cape Town offices (office based). We are looking for self-motivated, analytical thinkers and problem solvers, who will be involved in the creation of web-based enterprise systems which...
Business Analyst at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
Do You Speak Both Business and Tech?We're looking for a Business Analyst who can translate business needs into clear technical solutions. If you thrive on collaboration, love data-driven decisions, and enjoy making processes smarter, join us and let's drive innovation...
Full Stack Developer
Our client is looking for a skilled Full Stack Developer with expertise in PHP/Laravel to join dynamic team! You will be responsible for developing and maintaining web applications, ensuring seamless front-end and back-end functionality. Key Requirements Either...
Business Analyst at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Western Cape Cape Town
Do You Speak Both Business and Tech?We're looking for a Business Analyst who can translate business needs into clear technical solutions. If you thrive on collaboration, love data-driven decisions, and enjoy making processes smarter, join us and let's drive innovation...
Full Stack Developer – Western Cape Cape Town Region
Our client is looking for a skilled Full Stack Developer with expertise in PHP/Laravel to join dynamic team! You will be responsible for developing and maintaining web applications, ensuring seamless front-end and back-end functionality. Key Requirements Either...
Energy Project Manager
An excellent opportunity to join a top consulting engineering company's Energy Division as a Project Manager for their Renewable Energy projects.Key Responsibilities will include:Develop detailed project execution plans to ensure successful delivery of projects.Work...
Technical Support (German Speaking) (CPT – Onsite)
ENVIRONMENT:A Germany-based company focused on innovation-driven growth is seeking a skilled and enthusiastic Technical Support Specialist fluent in German to join their Cape Town based team. A qualification in IT or a related technical discipline is preferred, along...
Energy Project Manager – Gauteng Houghton Estate
An excellent opportunity to join a top consulting engineering company's Energy Division as a Project Manager for their Renewable Energy projects.Key Responsibilities will include:Develop detailed project execution plans to ensure successful delivery of projects.Work...
Technical Support (German Speaking) (CPT – Onsite) – Western Cape Cape Town
ENVIRONMENT:A Germany-based company focused on innovation-driven growth is seeking a skilled and enthusiastic Technical Support Specialist fluent in German to join their Cape Town based team. A qualification in IT or a related technical discipline is preferred, along...
Senior Power BI Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
We are seeking an experienced Senior Power BI Developer to join our team on a contract basis. RequirementsResponsibilities: Support and Maintenance: Provide ongoing support and maintenance for existing PowerBI models to ensure they remain accurate and up-to-date....
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