Government departments owe SABC R30m
Government departments have been flouting the law by failing to pay their television licenses - with their outstanding bills topping R30-million. Solly Malatsi, deputy minister of communications and digital technologies, is taking up the fight to get the public sector...
These are the top 10 strategic tech trends for 2025
Gartner has announced its list of 10 top strategic technology trends that organizations need to explore in 2025. “This year’s top strategic technology trends span AI imperatives and risks, new frontiers of computing and human-machine synergy,” says Gene Alvarez,...
Flat confidence not showing the whole story
After dipping from 42 to 39 in the third quarter, the RMB/BER business confidence index (BCI) slipped to 38 in the final quarter of 2022 - so more than six out of 10 respondents remained unsatisfied with prevailing business conditions. Although the BCI was little...
What the future of CX will look like
As we move beyond Covid-driven restrictions, IDC's Future of Customer Experience predictions for 2023 reflect how B2B and B2C businesses must confront a new set of macroeconomic challenges – inflation, global economic instability, and flattening customer growth –...
Cybercriminals, hackers the worst culprits disrupting SA organisations
By now, millions of people globally have experienced one or more shifts in the way they work. As the world continues to revert to pre-Covid levels of operating, countless industries have returned to working on-site, while many have adopted hybrid models which have...
AI software tipped to grow 50% faster than overall software market
Forrester forecasts that AI software will grow 50% faster than the overall software market over the next two years, with an annual growth rate of 18%. The spend on AI software will double from $33-billion in 2021 to $64-billion in 2025 due to an accelerated adoption...
IBM institutes legal action against Micro Focus
IBM has filed suit against Micro Focus, accusing the software company of illegally copying and reverse engineering IBM software in violation of copyright law. In the legal action filed in US District Court in the Southern District of New York, IBM asserts that these...
Global IoT revenues up in 2022
In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of the most important technologies out there, providing seamless communication between people, processes, and things. The surging need for wireless networking technologies continues to drive the entire...
Mobile operators will lose big to OTT business messaging apps
Mobile operators will lose out to OTT business messaging providers such as Messenger, WeChat and WhatsApp to the tune of $2,5-billion next year – an increase of 20% over 2022. A new Juniper Research study report found that promotional messages will account for 30% of...
Social media sites top for tracking user data
The average website has 48 trackers – and social media websites have 160 trackers on average, according to research from NordVPN. Health websites have an average of 46 trackers per website, and digital media sites come into third place with an average of 28 trackers....
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Better equipped agents mean better customer service
Merchants, South Africa's longest standing and largest contact centre partner, has installed a 39-seat contact centre simulation centre at the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator premises. The objective of the centre is to simulate real-life contact centre scenarios...
CRM helps IT organisations be more competitive
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Africa’s first female Google Expert named
DVT Android developer Rebecca Franks has been selected as a Google Developer Expert. Franks is the first female developer from Africa to qualify for Google's global Developer Expert program, and is also the first Google Developer Expert from Johannesburg. "As a...
IFS and Computech join forces in East-Africa
IFS, the global enterprise applications company, and Kenya-based systems integrator Computech will collaborate to support customers with enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM) and enterprise service management (ESM) solutions in East...
Education and business have the same cloud needs
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OutSystems makes the Gartner Visionary Quadrant
OutSystems, aRapid Application Development and Delivery (RAD) platform for the enterprise, has been recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner March 2016 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service, Worldwide. "We believe that being recognized as a...
MasterCard IQ Series reduces false payment declines
MasterCard launched the IQ Series at its Global Risk Leadership Conference in Dubai yesterday. Designed to harness real-time insights and intelligence, MasterCard IQ Series' suite of solutions empower card issuers and merchants to authorise transactions with increased...
East Africa leads in Regional Integration
Africa has a significant way to go if all countries are to reach the frontier of what the best performers are achieving in the area of regional integration. Out of all the Regional Economic Communities, the East African Community was cited as the most-integrated. The...
Aspect Software accelerates the race to replace legacy
For companies struggling to optimise their customer service workforce, there is a race to replace older, end-of-life workforce optimisation components that fail to address the technology needs of today's consumer interaction initiatives. To expedite this transition,...
MTN adds sun power for charging
MTN South Africa has launched a new promotional package featuring World Panel's SunStream, which allows users to stream electricity from the sun directly into their mobile devices. The new bundle was announced at an event in Mthatha with executives from MTN and World...
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Azure/AWS Infrastructure and Application Developer (LM) 2731
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Senior Support Engineer (VMware) (CPT)
ENVIRONMENT:PROVIDE virtualisation infrastructure support as your technical expertise as a Senior Support Engineer is sought by a dynamic Internet Service & Network Specialist. You will serve as the VMware Support Specialist while providing proactive analysis of...
Business System Analyst
My client based in Cape Town is currently looking for a Senior Business Systems Analysts to join them on an independent contract basis The candidate can be either CPT or JHB (Sandton) basedHybrid model 3 days in office IT / Finance Experience 5 years' experience as a...
Azure/AWS Infrastructure and Application Developer (LM) 2731 – Gauteng Pretoria
Development of AWS & Azure Networking and Monitoring user stories. Take actively part in all regular Scrum ceremonies. Contribute to refinement of user stories (user stories at the beginning of a development sprint might not be fully specified). Liaise with...
Front-End Developer – KwaZulu-Natal Durban
My Clients are seeking a skilled and experienced Front-End Developer to join a team of 6 passionate developers working on a next generation solution for international trade. Their software solution (Gateway) has been developed and deployed as an online ordering and...
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Business System Analyst – Western Cape Bellville
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Full Stack Java Developer (Contract)
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