Inability to measure AI impact a major challenge
A significant 30% of chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs) say their top challenge is the inability to measure data, analytics and AI impact on business outcomes, according to a new Gartner survey. The annual Gartner Chief Data & Analytics Officer Agenda...
How legal departments could use GenAI
Gartner has identified six top use cases for generative AI (GenAI) in legal departments, showing how the technology can enhance productivity, reduce risks, and drive innovation in legal operations. “GenAI – being rooted in text analysis – is a good fit technology for...
Pick ‘n Pay modernises its POS
When your retail business has a national footprint with outlets varying in size and offering, having a single point of sale management system can get complicated. Pick 'n Pay is a leading grocery retailer, with stores ranging in size form small garage stores to hyper...
SAP’s IT organisation goes digital
Kathy Gibson reports from Saphila 2023 - SAP tells its customers how they should be transitioning their businesses using SAP technology - and the company makes sure this technology works by running it in-house. "In our vision, every organisation and industry will...
Why moving to S/4 HANA makes sense
Kathy Gibson reports from Saphila 2023 - The 2027 deadline for users to migrate their legacy SAP systems to SAP S/4 HANA is drawing close - and those customers that haven't begun the journey may be cutting it fine. But apart from the stress of having to migrate for...
Digital technology key to surviving global challenges
Kathy Gibson reports from Saphila 2023 - Global uncertainty and inflation are just two of the challenges that every enterprise in the world has to deal with. In South Africa, these are exacerbated by power and political issues. As enterprises strive for the resilience...
Flexibility and technology change how people work in Africa
A new Ericsson Consumer & IndustryLab report - Future of Work Life - Africa Edition - has examined how employees and employers in Africa navigate the current work environment and their views on the future of work shaped by the pandemic, digitalisation, and the...
Africa tipped to be fastest growing fintech region
Financial technology revenues are projected to grow six-fold from $245-billion to $1,5-trillion by 2030, according to a new report released by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and QED Investors. Despite fintechs losing more than half their market value on average in...
Cybercriminals targeting crypto users
Kaspersky has unearthed a phishing campaign targeting cryptocurrency users across the globe. The scheme showcases the ever-evolving tactics used by cybercriminals and reflects cryptocurrency's increasing appeal. During the European spring (March to May) of 2023 alone,...
Afreximbank’s African Trade Report highlights the continent’s resilience
The African continent has shown growth resilience amid a synchronised global deceleration under the confluence of overlapping crises including the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, record-high inflation, heightening geopolitical tensions, and the...
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Hacking humans
The easiest way to hack into a network is by exploiting the one vulnerability most often left unpatched -- human nature, according to Michael Ferendinos, enterprise risk business unit head at Aon South Africa and Rudi Dicks, senior cyber consultant at BDO Forensics...
The risks of allowing smartphones at the bank …
Employees aren't just bringing their devices into work -- they're living on them. Checking one's phone is the first and last thing many do every day. With smartphones becoming constant companions, hackers are seeking every avenue available to break into them. The...
Ingesting data into Couchbase using Streamsets
Nick Cadenhead, 9th BIT Consulting, offers his expertise. I have been working with the Couchbase for some time now and it's been an interesting journey. Historically, I'm not a database guy, so I've not worked much with databases in terms of designing, building and...
Importance of business networking
The digital revolution and the move towards an always-on life has ensured that people are more connected than ever, both personally as well as professionally. Lyndy van den Barselaar, MD of ManpowerGroup South Africa, states that this has changed the way people...
Deep learning is changing the way we live
Analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data -- these conversations are no longer complete without the term "deep learning", a powerful phrase that is increasingly becoming part of the business vocabulary as it recognises life-changing advantages. Brendan...
Mission-critical myths about DDoS attacks
Bryan Hamman, Arbor Network's territory manager for sub-Saharan Africa, examines whether these "myths" are fact or fiction. For anyone in 'denial' about the power of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in South Africa - attempts to exhaust the resources...
A new way of looking at business productivity
Business productivity solutions have evolved significantly in recent years. Even in South Africa, workflow is taken more seriously than in the past when the cost and effort did not justify any value derived from it. But thanks to the arrival of cloud-based...
Small businesses must become truly entrepreneurial
Changing mindsets, adding value and seeking knowledge drives business in tough times, say experts at Small Business Expo and #BuyaBusiness Expo taking place at the TicketPro Dome until Saturday. Too many would-be entrepreneurs are the architects of their own business...
Joburg has a new space for gamers
Including a state-of-the-art gaming facility and a creative hub with eight working spaces, the Goethe-Institut's new Library -- Gamebox -- Hub is now open to the public. The Gamebox allows visitors to try out the latest from the world of video games. Currently...
Persistent gender pay gap in payroll sector
Cathie Webb, director at The South African Payroll Association, explains that the gender pay gap is shrinking, but it just won't go away. During Women's Month, it is important to consider the gender related problems we still face as professionals. One of the major...
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