Tech leaders to triple adoption of AIOps
According to Forrester’s 2025 technology and security predictions, 75% of technology decision-makers will see their technical debt rise to a moderate or high level of severity by 2026. This will be due to the rapid development of AI solutions, which are adding...
African Development Bank calls for bold solutions to African poverty
Climate change, global financial shocks and growing food insecurity are threatening Africa, the world’s fastest-growing continent and hampering achievement of global development goals. To tackle these challenges and speed up the continent’s efforts to achieve these...
Covid burden lessens in Africa, but numbers are creeping up
While Africa is witnessing its lowest level of new Covid-19 cases since the onset of the pandemic, a recent four-week rise - the first such sustained increase in four months - underscores the criticality of maintaining vigilance as the end-year holiday seasons sets...
Network security maintains strong revenue growth
The worldwide Network Security market maintained its ongoing rebound from the 2020 pandemic-induced recession with the eighth consecutive quarter of stronger revenue growth, and the sixth quarter of double-digit revenue growth. According to a recently published report...
Arriving at the airport ready to fly is close to reality
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has developed industry standards which will bring the aim of having travellers arrive at airports ready-to-fly one step closer to reality. The newly released Recommended Practice on Digitalization of Admissibility...
ISPs urged to register with the FPB
South Africa's Internet Service Provider Association (ISPA) and the country's Film and Publication Board (FPB) have a close working relationship and ISPA views recent concerns raised about the requirement of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to register with the FPB...
Eastern Africa is not ready to accept AI
A global survey commissioned by a UK-based safety charity has found that Eastern Africa is the least optimistic region in the world about artificial intelligence (AI), with more than half (51%) of respondents saying it would mostly harm people in their country over...
Pinnacle wins by a nose … scoops Channelwise Distributor of the Year Award
Pinnacle has once again walked away with the Channelwise Distributor of the Year Award, just pipping Axiz to the post with a scant one-tenth of a percent lead. They were followed by Tarsus Distribution, Mustek and Rectron in one of the most intensely-fought...
First Distribution takes home closely-fought Customer Care award
First Distribution has been chosen as the distributor that showed resellers the most care in 2022, walking away with the Channelwise Customer Care Distributor of the Year Award. The calibre and adaptability of South Africa’s IT distributors was amply demonstrated in...
These are the channel’s favourite vendors
South Africa’s resellers have once again made their voices heard, voting for their favourite vendors in the 2022 Channelwise Awards. “Over the years, the Channelwise Awards have tracked the progress of the South African IT industry, reflecting each year how technology...
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Wipro, Qlik to deliver advanced analytics
Wipro and Qlik have extended their partnership to a global alliance and will work together to offer advanced enterprise analytics solutions to joint customers across industry sectors. Wipro's competency in delivering end-to-end business intelligence (BI) solutions...
Kaspersky rewards African partner
The annual Kaspersky Lab Africa Partner conference brought together 45 representatives of the brand's key partners across the region, to discuss the evolving cyber threat landscape, to equip these partners with the insights on recent trends and to discuss new business...
What Android Pay UK means for the market
Jack Kent, director of IHS Technology, offers his analysis of Google's launch of Android Pay UK. Based on our data on Android OS version and NFC support (which we understand is a requirement) we estimate that there should be around 25-million to 30-million Android Pay...
CallCabinet teams up with Vodia Hosted PBX
CallCabinet, with its Atmos call recording solution, has teamed up with Vodia, the company that pioneered multi-tenant PBX, to provide a cloud-based solution for every firm that needs to record calls for training, dispute resolution, regulatory compliance or security....
Humans are here to stay in accounting
As technology gets smarter and takes over more and more of the work we typically deem "skilled", are professionals like accountants at risk of being replaced? The short answer is "No". The long answer is "It all depends on the professional accountant's attitude"....
How to find and fight payroll fraud
Payroll fraud is more endemic than many business owners realise, and this problem is not exclusive to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), writes Yolande Schoültz, risk and fraud management division manager at Sage HR & Payroll. The 2016 ACFE Global Fraud Study...
Three fears should be three cheers for VoIP
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) ticks all the required boxes and yet this telecommunications technology that's more affordable than cellular and more reliable than copper continues to suffer something of a reputation problem. "VoIP is cheaper than it has ever been...
Redstor in cloud backup alliance with Stage2Data
Redstor, a global provider of cloud backup service and data protection solutions, has announced an industry alliance with Stage2Data, a Canadian private cloud solution provider. Stage2Data provides Cloud Backup services to empower clients to outsource their data...
MFPs, lasers, inkjets decline in Western Europe
According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market declined by 7,7% in unit terms in 1Q16 compared with the same period a year ago, with negative performances in both the inkjet and laser...
Why storytelling is important for business
We've all grown up with stories -we're told fairy tales when we're very little, then the stories continue through school - and especially when we reach adulthood. Stories are all around us. Whether that's getting engrossed in the latest crime fiction novel,...
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SAP FICO Consultant 1519 (KG) – Gauteng Midrand
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IT Technician – Eastern Cape Kariega
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