Emerging markets well positioned to drive global growth
By 2035, emerging markets will play a crucial role in shaping the global economy, contributing about 65% of global economic growth. This is among the findings from S&P Global’s latest Look Forward research study, which identifies and assesses the opportunities and...
AI-powered drone swarms transform industries beyond defense
While drone swarms have been an area of technological development for many years, their practical applications have only recently gained significant momentum, particularly following increased attention during the Russia-Ukraine war, as reflected in Google search...
European AI market grows steadily despite uncertain economy
Despite the war in Ukraine, inflation, IT budget cuts, and layoffs announced by even the biggest tech companies, International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that the artificial intelligence (AI) market, including software, hardware, and services, will post a...
Mobile app market to reach $500bn by 2024
Over the past five years, the global app industry has seen revenue and downloads more than double, with mobile apps reaching more peoplee than ever. Last year, app developers grossed $428-billion, with people worldwide making over 235-billion downloads. In 2023,...
Rental and leasing car telematics set for growth
The installed base of telematics devices in the car rental and leasing market in Europe and North America reached 5,6-million in 2021 according to a new market research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight. The uptake of telematics in the industry is believed...
Ethereum development loses momentum
Despite 2022 registering the highest number of new developers in history, only 16% took an interest in the second-largest blockchain. A recent report by TradingPlatforms.com showed that, of the 61 127 new developers in 2022, less than 10 000 are building on the...
Sales function most likely to see budget increases
Chief financial officers (CFOs) who are planning significant shifts in function budgets for 2023 have listed sales, corporate IT and supply chain as the most likely to get increases this year, according to a survey by Gartner. "CFOs remain cautious about their 2023...
Webb reveals intricate networks of gas and dust
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are getting their first look at star formation, gas, and dust in nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths. The data has enabled an initial collection of 21 research papers which provide...
Edge computing investments forecast to reach $208bn this year
Worldwide spending on edge computing is expected to be $208 billion in 2023, an increase of 13,1% over 2022. Enterprise and service provider spending on hardware, software, and services for edge solutions is forecast to sustain this pace of growth through 2026 when...
Connected rep strategy will vastly improve contact centre efficiency
By 2026, Gartner predicts customer service functions that implement the "connected rep" will improve contact centre efficiency by 30%. The connected rep is a strategy that enables customer service reps (CSRs) to perform high-quality assisted service at scale. It...
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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...
Sophos debuts phishing attack simulator
Sophos has launched Sophos Phish Threat, an advanced phishing attack simulator and training solution that is fully integrated with the company's cloud-based security management platform, Sophos Central. With centralised management and automated campaign analysis,...
NetApp celebrates SolidFire acquisition
One year ago today, NetApp closed its acquisition of SolidFire, fueling the advance of the next-generation data centre that is transforming IT for enterprises and services providers. NetApp SolidFire solutions deliver data center infrastructure that operates with the...
Being proactive to protect goods in transit
The transport and logistics sector faces a unique challenge when it comes to securing goods end-to-end throughout the transport process, writes Laurence Smith, executive at Graphic Image Technologies. While areas like warehouses are fairly straight forward to monitor,...
Closing the software development skills gap in SA
In CNN Money's 2017 job rankings, mobile app developers came out on top, beating in-vogue, emergent fields like data science, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence, as well as literally every other profession from other industries. And it's certainly not the...
2017: A year of discontent and disruption?
With the arrival of the 17th year of the third millennium, many welcome the fresh start a new year brings after a tough 2016, writes Aaron Burton, Datta Burton & Associates. It is also an opportunity to take stock of the previous year, learn from it, and use that...
Building cyber resilient businesses from the inside out
Juniper research has predicted that the rapid digitisation of consumers' lives and enterprise records will increase the cost of data breaches to $2,1-trillion globally by 2019, almost four times the estimated cost of global breaches in 2015. Some 4,2-billion people...
The role of applications in digital transformation
In a world driven by big data, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud connectivity, applications have become the system we use to record everything, as well as the platform we use to interact with customers, suppliers, each other and - yes - things. Smart things....
2017: the year of CX
Change can be intimidating - for some company executives, the fear of potential problems being created by change can hinder progress and growth. In a competitive marketplace, stagnation leads to loss - businesses must adapt or risk customer loyalty eroding. The...
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