2m customers help FlySafair celebrate its 10th anniversary
FlySafair's annual sale, offering 50 000 tickets with the airline for R10, attracted nearly 2-million people for its 10th anniversary edition celebrating "Flying with Heart". "We are extremely happy with how yesterday's sale went," says Kirby Gordon, chief marketing...
Business leaders are battling to keep up with e-commerce growth
A new report from Accenture reveals that 95% of South African leaders (versus 83% globally) think that e-commerce is growing faster than they can adapt, and are finding it costly to be where customers are. This shared feeling of falling behind affirms how difficult it...
CPI close to 6% for third month
The annual change in the consumer price index (CPI) was 5,9% in April, unchanged from 5,9% in March. The monthly rate decreased to 0,6% from 1,0%. This is the third time in five months that the annual rate was 5,9%, testing the 6% upper limit of the South African...
Financial stress for workers impacts business profitability
Financial stress is a key detractor from employee wellness and research suggests it's an impairment to cognitive functioning, which can lead to a reduction in productivity. A recent study which measured and analysed the experiences of a sample of South Africa's...
Financial services slowest in multicloud adoption
Fewer financial services organisations have adopted multicloud than any other industry, trailing the global average by 10%. However, adoption is expected to nearly double from 26% to 56% in the next three years, in line with the global trend of evolving to a...
CEOs are looking at sustainability, workforce issues and inflation very differently
A recent survey of CEOs and senior executives by Gartner has revealed significant shifts in their thinking regarding people, purpose, prices and productivity in 2022, specifically on matters of sustainability, workforce issues and inflation. "2022 is the year that CEO...
As power declines, InSight is still hunting marsquakes
NASA’s InSight Mars lander is gradually losing power and is anticipated to end science operations later this year. By December, InSight’s team expects the lander to have become inoperative, concluding a mission that has thus far detected more than 1 300 marsquakes –...
How scammers leverage crypto hype in liquidity mining
Sophos has released threat research about nascent cybercrime, lifting the lid off scammers who are taking advantage of the hype about cryptocurrency trading and the vast sums of digital wealth users have made (and lost) in crypto markets to lure in and swindle...
$100m facility aims to unlock African supply chain finance
British International Investment (BII), the UK's development finance institution (DFI) and impact investor, has signed a $100-million risk-sharing facility for supply chain finance with Citi, a global leader in trade and supply chain finance solutions. The new...
Insurance ombuds give almost R400m back to consumers
The insurance ombuds put almost R400-milion back in the hands of consumers who complained in the past financial year. In a joint 2021 annual report, the ombudsman for long-term insurance (OLTI) noted that R200-million was recovered for complainants while the ombudsman...
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TransUnion launches TU SYNC
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LG Leon now available nationwide
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Lenovo introduces ThinkPad P50 and P70
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City Property enhances reporting with Decision Inc.
Assisted by Qlik partner Decision Inc., City Property has integrated QlikView into the finance team’s reporting structure. Access to near real time data is critical to any finance based organisation, and the implementation has resulted in a significant improvement in...
The unexpected costs of moving to the cloud
A few years ago, companies thought the cloud might help save on costs. No doubt everyone recalls the plethora of articles with titles such as: "How to save time and money in the cloud" or "Cloud Computing can generate massive savings", says Phil Curran, director of...
Banking on biometrics
If your brain occasionally goes blank when the ATM machine requests your PIN code, or worse, someone else has withdrawn cash from your account, help is just a fingertip away. Nick Perkins, divisional director of Identity Management at Bytes Systems Integration (Bytes...
E-mail key for PoPI compliance
The much talked about Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act is now imminent, and organisations need to realise that the question is no longer around whether it will be implemented, but what they should do to gear up for it, says Simeon Tassev, director of...
Reaping the benefits of home networking
A home network goes beyond a bunch of devices with wires running between them. Properly implemented, it is a system that provides its users with unique capabilities, in terms of connectivity and sharing. Networks allow computers, and their users, to be connected, and...
Runtastic joins Adidas Group
Runtastic has joined the Adidas group. The company's CEO Florian Gschwandtner confirmed the news last week, stating that it was time to take the next step. Runtastic had already been a part of the Axel-Springer company (owning 50,1% since October 2013) which has been...
Businesses boom with backup revolution
The evolution of technology used to perform mission-critical data backups and support disaster recovery means that any sized organisation can be effectively protected, despite increasing data volumes and the demands of digitisation. Specialists in data protection...
C# Developer – Western Cape Bellville
Over 5 Years C# .net and OR PHP would be avantageous Sector experience , Retail OR FMCG Please send your updatyed cv to [Email Address Removed] Desired Skills: C# C#.Net Development .NET ASP.NET Development C# Learn more/Apply for this position
Full Stack Developer (Expert) 0664 TT – Gauteng Pretoria
The team has a DevOps setup and the Devs are required to attend to operational incidents when required as well as be on occasional standby as we service international clientsPrimary responsibility is DevOps, with a strong focus on infrastructure, monitoring, debugging...
Senior Test Analyst – Western Cape Somerset West
Responsibilities/Tasks:Analyse/ assimilate project documentation to build a thorough understanding of the business and technical requirements of systems to be tested. These typically include business requirements, functional specifications, process/data flow diagrams...
Senior Test Analyst – Western Cape Somerset West
Senior Test AnalystResponsibilities/Tasks:·Analyse/ assimilate project documentation to build a thorough understanding of the business and technical requirements of systems to be tested. These typically include business requirements, functional specifications,...
IT Performance Project Manager
Key ResponsibilitiesPrepares the IT strategy/MBS and plans and the IT Organisation transformation.Responsible for IT Capability Building and Workforce Planning, Vendor delivery management.Establish planning and governance principles and processes including the market...
Senior React Developer (PTA Hybrid after 6 months probation)
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APPLICATION DEVELOPER: Intermediate to Senior
Join our client's team as an Application Developer (intermediate to Senior), where innovation meets impact! They are seeking talented Applications Developers to elevate their team and drive cutting-edge projects!Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain...
Finance Functional Analyst at Datonomy Solutions
We are looking for a Finance Functional Analyst to join our team in Cape Town- hybrid.The Finance Functional Analyst role will be required to translate Finance business requirements into OneStream technical specifications and solutions, and build required workflows,...
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Job Description: This role involves detailed financial analysis, asset appraisal, financial modelling, and providing expert advisory services during mergers and acquisitions. Experience in mergers and acquisitions and financial analysis. Multi-sector environment is...
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Key ResponsibilitiesPrepares the IT strategy/MBS and plans and the IT Organisation transformation.Responsible for IT Capability Building and Workforce Planning, Vendor delivery management.Establish planning and governance principles and processes including the market...
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