Growth, technology trump workers as top business priorities
CEOs ranked workforce as their third most important business priority for 2024 to 2025, behind growth and technology, according to Gartner. Gartner surveyed 416 CEOs and other senior business leaders in July 2023 and October through December 2023 and found that...
Public cloud spend set to double by 2028
Worldwide spending on public cloud services is forecast to reach $805-billion in 2024 and double in size by 2028, according to the latest update to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Software and Public Cloud Services Spending Guide. Although annual...
New CEO for Dimension Data MEA
Dimension Data has announced the appointment of Alan Turnley-Jones as CEO of Dimension Data Middle East and Africa (MEA), effective from 1 June 2022. Turnley-Jones joined Dimension Data MEA in 1999 and has served as the lead for the company’s Managed Cloud and...
SA employees, employers agree on hybrid working
South African employees prefer the hybrid working model - and most companies in the country are prepared to shift to this new practice. This is according to the latest Cisco Global Hybrid Work Study, which polled 28 000 globally full-time across 27 countries and...
In MEA, PC shipments grow as tablets slip
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, experienced a slight year-on-year decline of 1,5% in the first quarter of 2022, according to the latest industry analysis...
These are the top privacy trends
As the number of privacy regulations worldwide continues to grow, organizations should focus on five privacy trends to help meet the challenges of protecting personal data and meeting regulatory requirements, according to Gartner. "By year-end 2024, Gartner predicts...
Obstacles ahead for SA’s economy
Local economic growth is facing a myriad of headwinds this year including a weaker global environment weighing on export potential, a tightening of domestic monetary policy, a further rise in electricity load-shedding, a series of big fuel prices increases, and the...
Digital transformation acceleration comes with trade-offs
With highly distributed architectures and a broader threat landscape resulting from an ongoing digitisation of previously physical experiences, organisations are turning to a variety of solutions to help manage complexity and address widening IT skills gaps. However,...
SAP Africa sets up Africa’s first AppHaus
SA Africa has revealed plans to set up its first African AppHaus in Cape Town. The SAP AppHaus Network is a community of SAP partners that are united in the belief that innovation requires a creative environment, a multi-disciplinary team of designers, domain experts,...
CMOs should look beyond digital for differentiation
Marketing teams that are effective at scaled judgment and empathetic influence are more likely to report revenue growth, according to Gartner, In fact, marketing teams who implemented these skills were 11% more likely to report organisational revenue growth in 2021....
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Airtel Niger, Ericsson deploy 3G network
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No one is safe from cyber-attacks
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Intelsat, Azercosmos partner on satellite
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Has load-shedding killed the electric car?
Two years ago, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies announced a whopping 35% reimbursement on production costs over three years as an incentive for local electric car manufacturers. So far, only Ethiopia and South Africa have attempted to launch electric cars on the...
Agile adoption set to grow in 2015
2015 may be the year the pendulum swings – towards more rapid adoption, or a large agile failure. Sufficient Agile skills, improved market understanding of Agile and changes to company philosophy to align with agile values will be the weighing factors, according to niche consulting and technology company, BSG. Creating continuous business value accelerates time to market, increases productivity and allows IT and business to better align so that changing priorities can be better managed. The true challenge, however, is to create more market understanding on what an Agile approach is and, what it takes to succeed.
Gemalto expands Trusted Services Hub
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Proactive unstructured data management
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Cisco launches Meraki, ONE software in SA
Fast IT is a transformational new model that Cisco is using to help South African customers and partners simplify IT operations and make the most of the digital economy. The model evolves and unifies infrastructure, platform, and applications to reduce complexity,...
MoneyGram reaches 25 000 locations in Africa
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GoMetro launches e-mail service
In another move to help South African commuters by using mobile technology, GoMetro has launched a service for commuters to initiate an e-mail to their employers from a delayed train – no matter their device type. This button has been designed for the South African developing environment for users who do not have e-mail addresses and are accessing train times and delays on older phones – they don’t even need an Internet connection.
Data Quality Analyst at corporate real estate – Gauteng Rosebank
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