World leaders call for renewed global collaboration in the Intelligent Age
Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum founder and chairman of the board of trustees, has called on the global community to rise to the moment with "constructive optimism". Opening the 55th annual meeting, Schwab urged stakeholders from all sectors – government, business,...
Evolving DevOps models set to formalise the developer process
The evolving DevOps landscape in 2025 will prioritize centralized developer portals, enhance integration expertise to drive enterprise digital transformation. With platform engineering playing a pivotal role, businesses are poised to overcome production...
131 years needed to close the gender equality gap
Gender parity globally has recovered to pre-Covid-19 levels, but the pace of change has stagnated as converging crises slow progress, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2023. The report finds that the overall gender gap has closed by 0,3...
Digitalisation key for increased manufacturing output
Local manufacturing output has increased by 3,4% year on year, according to the Manufacturing: Production and Sales report recently released by Statistics South Africa. While this is a step in the right direction following a protracted spell of subdued activity, it is...
Climate crisis changes parental decisions on purchasing, careers, family size
Parents are taking serious action due to climate change, from everyday decisions to long-term family planning. A study from HP conducted by Morning Consult among parents in India, Mexico, Singapore, the UK and US found that 91% of parents are concerned about the...
Global in-app purchase spend set to jump
Last year mobile phone users worldwide spent almost $205-billion on in-app purchases - the highest value in the app market's history. This figure is set to grow by around 12% year-over-year and hit $231-billion in 2023 as millions of people continue spending more...
AMD expands commercial portfolio
AMD has announced its new Ryzen PRO 7040 Series Mobile processors, bringing advanced and power efficient x86 processors to more premium Windows 11 business laptops and mobile workstations. With "Zen 4" architecture, AMD RDNA 3 integrated graphics, AMD PRO...
25 African startups for Google startup fund
Google for Startups (GfS) has announced the 25 African-based startups selected for this year's $4-million Black Founders Fund. The Black Founders Fund, now in its third year, aims to help tackle systemic racial inequality in venture capital (VC) funding by providing...
Juno snaps lightning on Jupiter
NASA's Juno mission observed the glow from a bolt of lightning, in this view of a vortex near Jupiter's north pole. On Earth, lightning bolts originate from water clouds, and happen most frequently near the equator, while on Jupiter lightning likely also occurs in...
Very few customers have used a chatbot recently
Only 8% of customers used a chatbot during their most recent customer service experience, according to a survey by Gartner. Of those, just 25% said they would use that chatbot again in the future. Despite customer service and support leaders' growing focus on...
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The role of the cloud in digital transformation
Businesses acknowledge they are buried under mountains of inefficiencies and missed opportunities. CEOs understand that digital is an opportunity or a threat. So, the question is not about awareness, but how to unleash the power of digital transformation while finding...
Gemalto enables biometric passports in 30 countries
Gemalto has confirmed that its advanced epassport technologies are now being used in over 30 different countries. The company's position has been built on the supply of complete travel documents and key components such as polycarbonate data pages, visible and hidden...
How to plan for a cybercrime attack
Cyber-crime is on the rise, and given the growing use of technology and the growing volumes of data organisations and individual users face, it is no surprise. By Paul Evans, MD of Redstor Recently, British Airways was struck by an outage that left not one but two...
Reconsider the role of business ‘chiefs’
The move to digital, coupled with the increasing amount of data businesses find themselves dealing with today, has given rise to numerous new 'Chief' roles within the business landscape, as CEOs try to steer in the right direction -- aiming to achieve sustained...
Smart technology in Africa
Dr Deonie Botha, strategic manager at Sebata, a MICROmega Holdings company, draws insights from the 2017 Transform Africa Summit and talks about how ICT players can leverage them. In 2013, seven African heads of state formed the Smart Africa Alliance. From this, the...
FASYL joins IFS partner network
FASYL, as a business partner for sub-Saharan Africa, will join the IFS Partner Network. FASYL and IFS will work together to offer enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM) and service management solutions to companies in asset- and...
Overcoming roadblocks on the journey to digitalisation
Technology predictions foretell a future world where virtual reality (VR), artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and automation are the norm -- in both our personal and business lives. These technologies, among others, are set to completely change the way we interact...
Partners, cloud key to SME competitiveness
According to the World Economic Forum, SMEs contribute around 80% of the African continent's employment driving the creation of a new middle class and fuelling demand for new goods and services. Of late, SMEs have also seen a levelling of the playing field with their...
Discover Digital debuts billing interface
Digital technologies and video on demand solutions provider Discover Digital has brought a new level of simplicity to billing interfaces to market with the launch of its Common Operator Billing Interface (COBI) solution. COBI, initially designed to meet the needs of...
Machines shape the ‘golden ratio’ of data-driven business
This is the third in a series of three blog posts in which Niral Patel, MD of Oracle South Africa has been discussing the role people, data and machines must play in forming the data-driven businesses of tomorrow. You can read part one, on the role of people, here...
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