Sales suffer during a transformation
According to a survey by Gartner, only 11% of sales organisations have been able to drive commercial success while executing a transformation. Gartner surveyed 234 heads of sales and senior sales leaders in May through June 2024 to identify productivity levers that...
China streaks ahead in wrist-worn devices
According to the latest Worldwide Wearables Quarterly Tracker released by International Data Corporation (IDC), the global wrist-worn device market shipped 139-million units in the first three quarters of 2024, a year-over-year decline of 1%, mainly due to the...
Global online privacy and cybersecurity awareness is declining
The world's online privacy and cybersecurity awareness is declining, according to new research from NordVPN, which says that - based on 25 analysed markets with the highest numbers of responses - people globally performed best in recognising various online risks and...
Fraudsters prey on traditional African beliefs
South Africans are deeply connected to their culture and cultural beliefs, but scam artists and conmen are quickly learning how to take advantage of this. Followers of the fundamental traditional African belief system believe they are watched over by their ancestors...
AWS opens first African Skills Centre in Cape Town
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has opened its first international AWS Skills Centre on the African continent in Cape Town, continuing on its mission to remove the barriers of access to cloud skills training. The centres are Amazon's dedicated, in-person cloud learning...
Bribery and corruption concerns fuel regtech AI
The total number of Know Your Patient (KYC) checks for banking conducted using AI will reach almost 175-million globally by 2028 - up from just over 23-million in 2023 - according to fintech experts Juniper Research. The demand for regtech solutions is increasing...
Software set to take a ‘big bite’ out of enterprise networking spend
There is robust appetite for a new generation of software- and services-centric secure distributed cloud networking solutions to service the modern distributed enterprise. So much so, in fact, that Dell'Oro's new distributed cloud networking Advanced Research Report...
Intel, Synopsys expand partnership
Intel and Synopsys have entered into a definitive agreement to expand the companies’ long-standing IP (intellectual property) and EDA (electronic design automation) strategic partnership with the development of a portfolio of IP on Intel 3 and Intel 18A for Intel’s...
Collaboration, productivity key for SA workers
Kathy Gibson reports - A surprising majority of South African workers have gone back to the office full-time. That is one of the headline findings from a new study on collaboration and productivity in the South African enterprise in 2023, conducted by World Wide Worx...
IT leaders optimistic about AI transformation, ramp up investments
A new AMD survey of global IT leaders has found that three in four of them are optimistic about the potential benefits of AI -- from increased employee efficiency to automated cybersecurity solutions -- and more than two in three are increasing investments in AI...
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All the winners at Dell EMC Partner Awards
Kathy Gibson reports from Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town - Partners are responsible for 88% of Dell EMC sales in Africa, and a massive 98% in South Africa. This demonstrates the vendor’s commitment to partnering in the region, says Mohammed Amin, vice-president:...
Data protection to the fore
Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – In the era of digitalisation, with data becoming more pervasive than ever before, it is key to ensure that data is protected. The problem, says Servaas Venter, DPS sales lead at Dell EMC, is compounded by the...
IoT goes well beyond the things …
Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – The Internet of Things (IoT) is about more than connecting things – in fact, it goes well beyond the things themselves. This is the word from Odile Aboumarad, partner pre-sales manager: Middle East, Turkey and...
Into the era of man-machine partnerships
Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – Human-machine partnerships are going to be central to business in the future, which means that organisations have to master artificial intelligence (AI). “AI often feels like we are looking into the abyss,”...
ITaaS enables IT transformation
Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – We’ve heard all the cloud buzzwords, and largely got our heads around software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (Paas). The concept of IT as a service (ITaaS)...
Dell EMC commits to partnering
Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town - Dell EMC is a channel-centric business and intends to continue growing its partnerships in the African region. That is the word from Mohammed Amin, senior vice-president: Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Dell...
Find the real value in digital transformation
Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town - Digital transformation is no longer a nice-to-have: organisations that have not at least begun their digitalisation journey run a very real risk of becoming irrelevant. This is the word from Dell EMC channel...
Why ethics must be at the heart of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are more than trendy or futuristic topics - they are real computing advances that are playing out in homes and businesses today. By Zoaib Hoosen, MD of Microsoft SA In simple terms, AI is a machine's ability to...
How edtech will shape the school of the future
E-learning, analytics, mobile apps, learning management systems, learning content repositories and tech enabled communications: jargon to many, but essential to shape the school of the future. In South Africa, there is a chasm to cross. In 2011, 49% of grade 9...
Get the benefits from governance reporting
The first reports and disclosures in line with King IV principles are beginning to appear. King IV is effective in respect of financial years starting on or after 1 April 2017. It would appear that certain organisations still require a deeper understanding of the...
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