Digitisation, cloud is improving business outcomes
Kathy Gibson reports – South African organisations are increasingly using cloud services to unlock opportunities and improve business outcomes. Pandelani Munyai, group CIO of Transnet, explains that key considerations when adopting cloud included improved security and...
Cloud key to SA’s digitalisation goals
Kathy Gibson reports – Government has a firm policy t drive digital innovation, with the aim of improving service delivery while helping to uplift citizens. Nonkqubela Thathakahle Jordan-Dyani, director-general of the Department of Communications and Digital...
Strong growth expected for AR, VR
Worldwide spending on augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) is forecast to reach $13,8-billion this year and grow to $50,9-billion in 2026, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Spending Guide. The...
How to improve employee misconduct reporting
As chief compliance officers (CCOs) continue to face challenges in restoring employee misconduct reporting to pre-pandemic levels, there are three strategies they should implement to increase confidence in their processes among employees, according to Gartner. "There...
NHS Trusts roll out AI platform
A consortium of 10 National Health Service Trusts -- the publicly funded healthcare system in England -- is now deploying the MONAI-based AIDE platform across four of its hospitals, providing AI-enabled disease-detection tools to healthcare professionals serving...
Astronomers spot a black hole jet pointing to Earth
Astronomers have determined the source of an incredibly bright X-ray, optical and radio signal appearing from halfway across the universe. The signal, named AT 2022cmc, was discovered earlier this year by the Zwicky Transient Facility in California. Findings published...
Archive files move into the malware delivery lead
Archive file formats - such as ZIP and RAR files - have become the most common file type for delivering malware, surpassing Office files for the first time in three years. This is according to the latest HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report. Based on data from...
Crypto miners on the rise
In Q3 2022, Kaspersky researchers saw a sharp increase in crypto miner variants - an overall growth of over 230% compared to the same period last year. The number is three times more than in the third quarter of 2021 and now exceeds 150 000. Of all corporate users...
ICT skills development critical for SA
ICT skills development is critical for South Africa to participate in the fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and reap the benefits of a digital economy. This was the consensus of various speakers at Huawei South Africa's ICT Talent Development annual awards ceremony...
Bumper spend for online sales this Black Friday
This year marked the return of the Black Friday bumper spend as midnight and intra-day deals exceeded the 2021 figures. Online sales emerged as the clear winner, tracking significantly higher growth. Recording transactions processed on behalf of South Africa's banks,...
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SanDisk has launched the next-generation iXpand Flash Drive, a mobile storage device designed to help people quickly and easily free up space on their iPhone and iPad with up to 128Gb of additional capacity. The iXpand Flash Drive features a new, modern design that...
Companies still fail to protect data
Despite their having comprehensive information security and data protection policies in place, most South African businesses are still wide open to data theft and misuse, says Mervyn Mooi, director at the Knowledge Integration Dynamics Group. Numerous pieces of...
Get the most out of quarterly staff reviews
Most companies acknowledge that performance reviews are important tools for success, yet they are often rushed, postponed, and, in some cases, cancelled altogether. When this happens, the company misses out on a great opportunity to improve the overall performance of...
Conlog celebrates five decades in business
South African prepayment electricity meter specialist, Conlog, has celebrated 50-years in business. During the last five decades, the Durban-based business, which today is part of Schneider Electric, has founded groundbreaking technology, and made notable...
Incredible Connection launches Click 10X
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Call centres pivotal to day-to-day
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Real IRM launches IT4IT training programme
Enterprise Architecture specialist Real IRM has launched a two-day training programme - aimed at certifying individuals in The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture standard. This coincides with The Open Group conference in London this week which saw the official...
Why chatbots won’t replace humans
Fear mongering is everywhere, in every industry. And most recently, the contact centre has experienced its own dose of this with the announcement that Facebook will be making use of chatbots via Messenger to deal with customer queries. The concern, of course, is that...
Commvault extends workload portability
Commvault has announced support of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Snowball, a secure petabyte-scale data transport solution to migrate large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud. Through its relationship with AWS, Commvault accelerates workload portability and...
Intervate ensures retailers comply with regulations
Local retailers can now ensure compliance with both the Affordability Amendment to National Credit Act (NCA), and the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) thanks to a new solution from Intervate, a T-Systems company. As a multi-award winning, Microsoft Gold...
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We need a Microsoft Dynamics ERP/CRM Developer specializes in tailoring and enhancing the Dynamics CRM/ERP platform to meet specific business needs. You must have expertise in adapting the system's vast capabilities to create efficient, user-friendly solutions.Must be...
Data Analysis – Gauteng Bryanston
Role: Manage the Messaging data set.Manage the Data trapping points and elements.Define the data model to deliver Reporting, Monitoring, and SLA tracking.KPA / KPI Define data elements required for reporting.Document and maintain a repository of Data elements.Define...
Business Intelligence Data Analyst at Empower FS – Gauteng Midrand
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Java/Angular Developer (Java8 Angular 2 spring frameworks Rest Git)
The CIB Trade team is looking for a Specialist Front End Java Developer to apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to...
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