Metrics, analytics and reporting top priorities for CFOs
CFOs and finance leaders rate metrics, analytics and reporting as their top focus area for 2025 reflecting an emphasis on delivering insight to improve business performance, according to Gartner. The research group’s latest October 2024 survey of 251 CFOs showed that...
Why SA businesses need to prioritise cybersecurity
Eighty percent of South African businesses say they have experienced a cyberattack in the past year – but only 32% prioritise cybersecurity training among employees – according to new research from Vodacom Business. The company’s latest report, “Cybersecurity as an...
SA research on mitigating plastic pollution to be showcased at international science festival
South African research that seeks to mitigate plastic pollution - reducing the threat it poses to plants, animals, and the environment - will be showcased at the 2023 International Festival of Engineering Science and Technology in Tunisia (I-FEST2) later this month....
When it comes to application flaws, the devil is in the data
Regardless of their original size, applications grow in size by about 40% year on year, increasing their exposure to security threats. This is one of the findings from the annual Veracode 2023 State of Software Security report, which aims to assist businesses to meet...
Analysts optimistic about crypto recovery and growth
After one of its harshest years ever, analysts say that the global crypto market continues showing signs of recovery in 2023 with impressive user growth and an expected significant increase in transaction value. Research organisation BitcoinCasinos.com says...
Ethernet switch market continues strong
Worldwide Ethernet switch revenues grew 22% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22) to $10,3-billion and grew 18,7% for the full year 2022 to $36,5-billion. The total worldwide enterprise and service provider (SP) router market recorded $4,6-billion in...
New payment standard offers cash-like convenience
Kathy Gibson reports - A broad industry initiative, PayShap is South Africa’s first low-value, interbank, realtime digital payments service that will make digital payments easier and more convenient for all South Africans. The new payments platform was developed by...
OpenFL paves the way to confidential AI
Intel announced that the LF AI & Data Foundation Technical Advisory Council accepted Open Federated Learning (OpenFL) as an incubation project to further drive collaboration, standardisation and interoperability. OpenFL is an open source framework for a type of...
2023 is the ‘moment of truth’ for battery-electric vehicles
Several factors will make 2023 a true test of the resolve of governments and the automotive industry in driving battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) forward, says Gartner. "2023 is the moment of truth to drive full electrification forward," says Pedro Pacheco, VP analyst...
2022 marked first year of decline for wearable devices
Global shipments of wearable devices declined 18,9% YoY in the fourth quarter of 2022 to 138,7-million units, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Shipments for the full year 2022 were down 7,7% compared to 2021, marking the first year of...
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UPP boosts inventory management, access to info
Universal Paper and Plastics (UPP), one of South Africa's leading manufacturers of paper and plastic products, has improved inventory management, gained better control over its business processes and enhanced its access to management information by implementing Sage...
2017 will separate the doers from the thinkers
Gary Carter, chairman at Dac Systems, believes 2017 will be the year when tech disruptors entrench their positions and tech-savvy consumers differentiate genuine value from fly-by-night opportunists. Several tech trends will come to the fore next year says Carter,...
Life insurance of the future to be more accessible
Life insurance is set to become more personalised, more convenient and more accessible as leading life insurers begin to more aggressively adopt disruptive digital technologies to change the ways they interact with customers and operate their businesses. As a result,...
App takes the complexity out of Foreign Exchange
Standard Bank has made its global wallet, Shyft, available on its Android and Apple app stores, enabling its customers to make personal foreign exchange transactions from their mobile devices. Shyft simplifies the process of making foreign exchange transactions, by...
Jasco launches new version of DataVoice
Jasco has announced the availability of the latest update to the DataVoice Libra Voice Recorder solution, Libra V10.0, which offers users a host of new, enhanced and improved functionality to maximise the solution's overall efficiency and performance. The DataVoice...
Why omni-channel is the only way to communicate
ICT has progressed to a point where it makes no sense for businesses to use single or one-dimensional channels. Today, the advent of social networks, social media and other interactive platforms means that any sized business in any sector or industry can extend their...
How to slash e-commerce cart abandonment
Kyle Rozendo, chief technology officer at SID, puts forward nine simple ways to make sweeping changes to e-commerce website performance. Global shopping cart abandonment on e-commerce websites is reported at anything between 60% and 70%. Yet simple tweaks to the...
How to become an employer of choice
Michelle Moss, director of assessments at Talent Africa, a company that helps companies in South Africa and parts of Sub-Saharan Africa find talent, believes that offering staff opportunities to grow and giving them room to express themselves is key to employee...
Kaspersky Lab unlocks CryptXXX-encrypted files
After releasing decryption tools for two variants of CryptXXX ransomware in April and May 2016, Kaspersky Lab has released a new decryptor for files that have been locked with the latest version of the malware. This malicious programme was capable of infecting...
Balancing the digital demand with human touch
It's no secret that banks have looked to move many of their services to online solutions in response to the growing consumer demand for digital, and in an effort to manage cost, writes Michiel Lely, vice-president of practices: EMEA at Verint. This has manifested...
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