20 years on and gender gap parity is fracturing

Twenty years after the World Economic Forum first measured the global gender gap, the world is closer to parity than ever, but progress is fragile, with gains reversing in some areas, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2026. Women now reach senior leadership in...

Unemployed are least likely to prioritise betting spending-limit tools

The online betting group most likely to prioritise debt repayment with a windfall is also the group least likely to ask regulators or operators for spending controls, according to new research from Softswiss. Fewer than four in 10 unemployed South Africans think...

AI-first enterprises will win big if they do it right

Kathy Gibson reports - Enterprises that are reshaping and reinventing business domains around artificial intelligence (AI) are on track to experience great return on investment (ROI) and become more competitive. But there is a currently a big disconnect between AI...

AI leaders join call for a slowdown in new developments

The call for a global slowdown on artificial intelligence (AI) development is gaining traction, with the leaders of the some of the world’s largest AI companies adding their voices. On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dr Dario Amodei penned an essay calling for AI companies to...

C-suite execs say AI will impact their businesses

A survey by Gartner has revealed that 62% of CFOs and 58% of CEOs believe that AI will have the most significant impact on their industries in the next three years. The Gartner survey of 247 CEOs and CFOs was conducted to examine CEO and senior business executive...

New opportunities for partners as digital transformation evolves

By Kathy Gibson - As end users digitally transform their businesses, it's vital that IT reseller partners transform as well. That's one of the messages from Dell Technologies, talking to partners about opportunities for partners in the year ahead. Doug Woolley, MD of...

Quantum-safe IBM z16 does AI at scale

IBM has unveiled IBM z16, its next-generation system with an integrated on-chip AI accelerator - delivering latency-optimised inferencing. This is designed to enable clients to analyse realtime transactions, at scale for mission-critical workloads such as credit card,...

South Africans comfortable with online learning

A recent Kaspersky survey represented the attitude of adults, including teachers, to digital education during the pandemic. According to new research from Kaspersky, only 28% of those surveyed from South Africa don't want the format of online learning to continue in...

Intel makes blockchain hashing more energy-efficient

Intel has announced details for its new Intel Blockscale application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), providing customers with energy-efficient hashing for proof-of-work consensus networks. "Momentum around blockchain continues to build," says Balaji Kanigicherla,...

Shift in focus for leading IT organisations

The future of technology requires radical thinking, but as IT leaders act on a multitude of ideas to enhance their organisations, new data released today from SPR shows that some strategies will fare better than others in 2022 and beyond. The report, titled The 2022...

Insurance industry adapts to Africa’s unique challenges

Driven by technology, innovation and economic growth, the insurance industry in Sub-Saharan Africa is evolving, as highlighted by a new report by Standard Bank and Step Advisory. The report - The Rapid Evolution of Insurance in Africa - provides a deep dive of how the...

SA It industry needs to step up to save skills pipeline

The South African IT industry needs to move quickly to save the IT skills pipeline, or risk falling behind the world in terms of 4IR progress. This is according to Senele Goba, Director of 4IR Innovations, founder of Ososayensi Education Advancement NPO and board...

New Windows, Office 365 updates make hybrid work easier

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, as the world strives to create a new normal, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that most companies are going to embrace some form of hybrid working. Panos Panay, executive vice-president and chief product officer at Microsoft,...

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Hortonworks partners with Avanade on big data

Hortonworks, a major contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache Hadoop, has announced an alliance partnership with Avanade to build new big data solutions and services based on Microsoft technologies. Avanade’s data analytics deployments for enterprise clients...

Adopting a hub and spoke ERP model

The two-tier enterprise resource planning (ERP) model, also referred to as hub and spoke, is gaining global market acceptance. Louis Laurie, marketing director of Dac Systems, believes the model offers benefits for local organisations. "As the name suggests, the...

Empower call centre agents with smartphone support

Investment in strong online customer care strategies is becoming an imperative in the mobile operator industry, especially in Africa, where the first wave of smartphone users is on a rapid rise. Nonetheless, customer care agents are not properly equipped to deal with...

Dell debuts network functions virtualisation platform

Dell has introduced its NFV solution offerings and companion starter kits, comprising Dell systems and software combined with software from open ecosystem partners and open source distributions to help jumpstart carrier trials and adoption. Dell’s NFV solutions can...

Océ debuts small but scalable light production press

Océ South Africa has added the Canon imagePress C800 series, a range of three colour printers with a throughput of 60 pages per minute (ppm), 70ppm or 8ppm, to its product offering. The target range of these devices is from 40 000 to 70 000 A4 pages. “A powerful and...

How the cloud is transforming HR and payroll management

Cloud computing and mobility bring a range of powerful benefits for HR and payroll managers, enabling them to become more efficient while offering their employees and the business a better quality of service. That's according to Anton van Heerden, MD of Sage HR &...

Breaking the cycle of recruiting, training and churning

There are few business operations that are more challenging from a human resources perspective than running a call centre, writes Ivanna Granelli, founder of Can!Do Consulting. Here, at the front lines of customer service, businesses face a tension between the need to...

WiFi in education cannot be overlooked

Ruckus Wireless will be presenting at the e-Learning and Technology Summit, taking place at the Indaba Hotel, Fourways, Johannesburg beginning today (16 October). The summit will explore major technology developments taking place in the e-learning space and how it is...

SAP named enterprise mobile management leader

Industry analyst firms Forrester Research and IDC have named SAP a leader for enterprise mobile management (EMM) in their recently published reports, with the SAP Mobile Secure portfolio achieving a Leader position in both Forrester’s EMM Wave and the IDC MarketScape:...

How CIOs can capitalise on hybrid cloud

Understanding and capitalising on hybrid cloud are priorities for today’s CIOs. Because it incorporates public and private clouds, a hybrid cloud brings together the best of both worlds by enabling businesses and their IT organisations unprecedented flexibility in...

Web Developer / Social Media Manager

Join a large, well-established group of companies with businesses nationwide, spanning agriculture, retail, FMCG, and tourism. You will have a blend of technical web development skills and social media management expertise to implement and maintain a strong digital...

Support Engineer

Job Title: Support EngineerLocation: JohannesburgContract type: Contract (6-month contract)Hybrid Roles and responsibilities: Assist to Manage applications throughout their lifecycle - implementation, remediation patches, upgrades, and maintenance.Assist to Manage the...

Junior Business Analyst

My client based in Cape Town (Woodstock) is currently looking for a Junior Business Analyst to join them on an independent contract basis IT / Finance Responsibilities Requirement Elicitation and AnalysisWork closely with business stakeholders to understand their...

Software Tester

My client is based in Cape Town (Eastern suburbs) and they are looking for bright young graduates for a software testing role. Understanding of testing methods and a degree in IT, Computer Science of Engineering would be a match together with some knowledge of supply...

Developer – Back-End (Senior) at Parvana Recruitment

Client Details:Our client is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company, catering to vendors of asset management solutions with their hosted software. They have carved a niche for themselves by offering affordable premium software across various industries. The...

Junior IT Technician – Cape Town – Western Cape Cape Town

Qualifications: This person should have done some form of IT training course (6 months - 1 year) and understand the basics around PCs, laptops, printers, etc. It would be preferable that this person also has some basic networking and internet related experience.Job...

Web Developer / Social Media Manager – Gauteng Pretoria North

Join a large, well-established group of companies with businesses nationwide, spanning agriculture, retail, FMCG, and tourism. You will have a blend of technical web development skills and social media management expertise to implement and maintain a strong digital...

Support Engineer – Gauteng Sandown

Job Title: Support EngineerLocation: JohannesburgContract type: Contract (6-month contract)Hybrid Roles and responsibilities: Assist to Manage applications throughout their lifecycle - implementation, remediation patches, upgrades, and maintenance.Assist to Manage the...

Junior Business Analyst – Western Cape Woodstock

My client based in Cape Town (Woodstock) is currently looking for a Junior Business Analyst to join them on an independent contract basis IT / Finance Responsibilities Requirement Elicitation and AnalysisWork closely with business stakeholders to understand their...

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