Private partnerships sought to save Post Office
Treasury support is being sought in forming a task team to pursue private financial and operational partners for the South African Post Office (SAPO). “This will enable serious consideration of privatisation scenarios as a preferential option to further funding from...
AI fuels explosive growth in shared cloud infrastructure
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment, spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments - including dedicated and shared IT environments -...
Healthy growth forecast for public cloud revenue
The public cloud market is witnessing healthy growth, according to new research from SafeBettingSites.com, and is expected to earn $398-billion in revenue in 2022 - a 20% year-on-year increase. According to the data provided by Statista, the public cloud market is...
eCommerce fraud on the rise
A new study from Juniper Research has found that the total cost of ecommerce fraud to merchants will exceed $48-billion globally in 2023, from just over $41-billion in 2022. It predicts that this growth will be accelerated by the increasing use of alternative payment...
Avaya reaffirms faith in SA market
Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex - South Africa is a key market for Avaya, which counts the country's top organisations among its customers. Nidal Abou-Ltaif, president of Avaya International, tells IT-Online that customers are bullish about the future, as they look...
IoT: focus on the outcomes
While many believe that the Internet of Things (IoT) as a network of technology solutions can solve several real-world problems, the adoption thereof in Africa has been limited to a handful of industries to date and it has been slower than anticipated. According to...
Investment in digital transformation critical to remain relevant
With IT enmeshed in every facet of a business, CIOs believe that their organisations must continue to invest in digital transformation to remain relevant. At the same time, the role of the CIO has become increasingly important within a business, with CIOs being asked...
We need to act now to stop AI from deepening inequities
Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex - Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a reality in business and society, but we should be doing more to ensure whole sections of the planet's population are not left behind or marginalised as it becomes mainstream. Maya...
September’s ‘Most Wanted’ malware
Check Point Research (CPR) has published its latest Global Threat Index for September 2022 which indicates that while Formbook is still the most prevalent malware - impacting 3% of organisations worldwide - Vidar is now in eighth position, up seven places from August....
Contact centres take CX into the future
Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex - As the business landscape shifts, the contact centre is becoming more important to businesses looking to leverage cloud computing and advanced analytics to redefine the customer experience they offer. Todd Zerbe, senior...
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Spree.co.za launches new mobile shopping app
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Don’t be a victim of ATM theft this festive season
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Maintain a pipeline over the holidays
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Clean data vital for a targeted business strategy
Data and big data are vital for any organisation in order to understand better the target audiences and adapt business strategies accordingly. However, without recent, clean and accurate data, the information used can result in implementing incorrect strategies, which...
Control of enterprise-connected mobile devices is possible
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