Governance key to health sector success
The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) has released a consensus study report titled "Achieving Good Governance and Management in the South African Health System”. Conducted by a seven-member expert panel, explores the critical governance issues impacting the...
Automotive chips address shifting market
Automotive chips are progressing towards high performance, high integration, and high reliability to meet the escalating complexity and technical requirements of the automotive sector, with ongoing technological innovations poised to expedite this evolution. A recent...
MTN Group, Microsoft in strategic African alliance
MTN Group and Microsoft have announced a strategic alliance agreement to accelerate digital and cloud transformation working towards a shared vision of driving Africa’s growth. The agreement is in support of MTN’s strategic intent of leading digital solutions for...
Elon Musk sticks to his guns on $8 blue tick fee
Elon Musk, the new owner is sticking to his guns that users pay an $8 fee to have a blue tick that verifies their account. This is according to Musk in tweets, rather than an official stance by the company. But insiders reveal that developers have been told to...
Watch Pat Gelsinger and Linus Torvalds talk open source
At Intel Innovation 2022, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sat down with Linus Torvalds, the “godfather of open source” who created the Linux operating system. Their wide-ranging conversation covered the beginning of Linux, Torvalds’ advice for Intel and why he chose a penguin...
Make your voice heard in the Channelwise Awards survey
Voting in the Channelwise Awards survey has been extended to midnight on 11 November. The Channelwise Awards give the nation’s resellers the opportunity to vote for the vendors and distributors they feel went the extra mile for them during the past year. The survey...
Top future programmers shine at 2022 Programming Olympiad
The South African Computer Olympiad (SACO) and the Institute of information Technology Professionals (IITPSA) have announced the winners for the 2022 national Programming Olympiad, a challenge for high school learners who can use a computer programming language. The...
Time to transition to renewables is now
In 2021, myriad countries around the globe made efforts to jump start their economies after being considerably impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. As part of these efforts, countries prioritised the use of fossil fuels. However, amid geopolitical disruptions and...
Interconnected geopolitical challenges dominate risk agenda
The interconnected challenges of global security partnerships, financial integration, supply chain resilience, and migration are no longer simmering in the background. They are now top of the agenda and will likely continue to stay there in the year ahead, according...
How to boost the performance of African tech startups
Understanding the key drivers that turn an entrepreneurial mindset and innovative ideas into high-performing businesses could hold the key to reducing the 95% first-year failure rate of African tech startups and unlocking their potential to boost economic growth and...
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Insurers look to digital in fast-changing world
Global insurers are being forced to digitise their operations to cope with dramatic changes in the global market, where selfie deaths are climbing into double and triple digits, ordinary people call for tens of millions of dollars in life assurance, and policy holders...
IT trends for 2017
2017 will be an exciting time and may well be the beginning of a new era for productivity growth, writes Bertus Homan, sales director of Hitachi Data Systems South Africa. Digital transformation will be a major business focus, and success will hinge on how successful...
CA strengthens security
CA Southern Africa has announced the new release of CA Technologies, CA Identity Suite, that includes integration with CA Privileged Access Manager for governance of privileged accounts. Features include new, flexible deployment options for agility, speed and...
Could your next chit-chat be with a chatbot?
We've all experienced the frustration: dialling call centres, waiting on line, listening to elevator music, having calls dropped, or patched through to other departments, only to finally speak to someone and then receive sketchy customer service, writes Dave Stevens,...
So what is modernisation really?
Don't sweat digitalisation, sweat assets, advises Rick Parry, chairman and CEO of AIGS. In a previous article, we stated that a failure to embrace digital transformation can cause companies financial harm within a year. But replacing core systems with new digital...
Could PMO gamification drive quicker adoption?
What do the introduction of new technologies, business re-engineering and process improvement projects all have in common? The answer is simple, these types of projects typically touch almost every aspect of a business and are classified as organisational change...
The journey from baker to developer
One person's journey from kneading dough to writing code, creating disruptive new products and services at a Cape Town based innovation firm, shows young people what's possible when it comes to crafting a career in technology. "Never give up." That's the advice...
Redstor rallies to fight ransomware
Ransomware attacks are becoming more prevalent and end users within small-to-medium business segment and education are particularly susceptible. It is for this reason that Redstor has embarked on an online campaign to raise awareness around the severity of this...
Avoidance a tool in fight against cyber-crime
Cyber-crime will become an increasingly common threat to South African companies and individuals, according to Grant Thornton. In the future, one alternative to offset potentially catastrophic consequences, although against conventional wisdom and hype, might be to...
Aspect Software opens up enterprise chatbot
Aspect Software is making its Aspect Mila personal assistant chatbot available on leading workforce collaboration and messaging platforms such as Slack, Microsoft Teams and Facebook Workplace. Announced last year, Mila provides contact centre and enterprise employees...
Intermediate .NET Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg
Hire Resolve is looking for an Intermediate .Net Developer for a respected client in the software industry. As a software engineer specializing in .NET Full Stack Development, you will master .NET technologies and JavaScript frameworks like Angular or React, along...
Business Analyst II (CONTRACT ROLE) – Gauteng Randburg
Apply a set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison amongst stakeholders in order to understand the problems; opportunities; needs; structure; policies and operations of the organization on medium to large projects / medium risk.Recommend solutions that...
Data Analyst
Senior Data Analyst My client is a big privately owned company that has an opportunity for a Data Analyst to make a difference in thier business. Job Specifications: Formulation and execution of the data and reporting strategy, policy and processes.Develop and design...
Pre-sales Networking Specialist (PE) (EE)
ENVIRONMENT:PROVIDE technical Pre-sales support to various entities for the purpose of promoting and selling products/services for potential customers and existing customers as the next Pre-sales Networking Specialist sought by a dynamic Internet Service & Network...
Kotlin Intermediate Developer
Kotlin Full Stack Developer Join a leadership team that is ahead of the gameR600 000 to R900 000Our dev team is obsessed with producing high-quality products whilst maintaining clean architecture principles, minimizing technical debt and maintaining the highest level...
Data Analyst – Gauteng Sandown
Senior Data Analyst My client is a big privately owned company that has an opportunity for a Data Analyst to make a difference in thier business. Job Specifications: Formulation and execution of the data and reporting strategy, policy and processes.Develop and design...
Pre-sales Networking Specialist (PE) (EE) – Eastern Cape Gqebera
ENVIRONMENT:PROVIDE technical Pre-sales support to various entities for the purpose of promoting and selling products/services for potential customers and existing customers as the next Pre-sales Networking Specialist sought by a dynamic Internet Service & Network...
Kotlin Intermediate Developer – Gauteng Gauteng
Kotlin Full Stack Developer Join a leadership team that is ahead of the gameR600 000 to R900 000Our dev team is obsessed with producing high-quality products whilst maintaining clean architecture principles, minimizing technical debt and maintaining the highest level...
IT Clerk
Position duties:Manage the roadmap of the applications under your responsibilityAcquire knowledge of the systems in charge and assist users to make the best use of the functionalities available in each system.Supervise vendors on high, medium and low scale evolutions...
Intermediate Full Stack PHP Developer (CPT Hybrid)
ENVIRONMENT:A dynamic Education Specialist seeks an Intermediate Full Stack PHP Developer who is experienced in developing business web applications and application integrations using common front-end and back-end web technologies with a strong focus on the PHP...
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