Fuel price shock will hit supply chains hard, driving prices up

South Africa’s latest fuel price increase will put fresh pressure on already strained supply chains, says supply chain industry body SAPICS. The organisation warns that the cost impact is likely to extend far beyond the transport sector and into consumers’ pockets at...

SA must put jobs at the centre of its AI future

South Africans are embracing AI, but turning that appetite into economic opportunity will require trained educators, reliable Internet, affordable access, recognised skills pathways, scaling of existing financing models, and investment in the country’s own languages,...

SA’s data centre boom starts to raise questions

South Africa’s rapidly expanding data centre sector is highlighting a fundamental gap in how the country plans and regulates major digital infrastructure: there is no comprehensive public record of how many facilities are operating, where they are located, or how much...

CFOS play an outsize role as AI scales enterprise-wide

As AI becomes more integrated into enterprise operations and decision-making, chief financial officers (CFOs) are taking on a larger role in shaping enterprise priorities around AI, helping turn strategy into execution, and determining how investments and capital...

SA enterprises are embracing GenAI

Kathy Gibson reports – South Africa’s largest enterprises are well on the way on their generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) journeys. This is according to the South African Generative AI Roadmap for 2024 survey by World Wide Worx, commissioned by Dell...

Coalition aims to bridge the digital divide by 2030

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has announced the launch of the Partner2Connect Digital Coalition to foster meaningful connectivity and digital transformation in the world's hardest-to-connect countries. These include the Least Developed Countries,...

Subscription economy takes off in SA

Subscription is a global trend that has also impacted South Africa, which currently has 7,2-million active subscriptions. The subscription economy, or subscronomics in the country, will be around $530-million this year, according to the latest analysis presented by...

SASE, zero-trust demand fuels SWG growth

The growing number of enterprises pivoting away from legacy hub-and-spoke to a contemporary cloud-first and mobile-friendly IT architecture drove the robust year-over-year (Y/Y) revenue increase in the $2-billion secure web gateway (SWG) market, according to a report...

SA developers excel in regional app contest

Southern African developers have excelled in this year's Huawei Apps UP developer competition, collectively topping both the number of registrations as well as the number of entries in the Middle East and Africa region. Following a regional judging session, five South...

Some Justice Department services recovered after ransomware attack

The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DOJ&CD) says that some functionality of the MojaPay system has been recovered and most child maintenance payments have been processed. The payments were made on 15 September 2021 and the money is expected...

Telkom considers seperate listing for masts and towers business

Telkom announced today that it is pursuing a separate listing of the group's masts and towers business on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Swiftnet is a Telkom subsidiary under management by Gyro. With 6 225 masts and towers, it is South Africa's largest independently...

Semiconductor market continues on growth trajectory

IDC expects the semiconductor market to grow by 17,3% in 2021 versus 10,8% in 2020. According to IDC, the industry will see normalisation and balance by the middle of 2022, with a potential for overcapacity in 2023 as larger scale capacity expansions begin to come...

Call to digitise SA’s heritage content

South African universities, public libraries and historical archives are sitting on treasure troves of valuable documents and manuscripts that have yet to be digitised. As a result, these historically significant documents are not easily available to historians and...

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Learners excel in BlackBerry MAD challenge

Johan Nel, Eben du Toit and Gustav du Preez were named as the winners in the Gauteng leg of the BlackBerry Mobile Application Development (MAD) Challenge 2013 held at the BlackBerry apps lab at the University of Pretoria. They emerged in first place from 63 learners...

Hungry Lion mobile coupon campaign a hit

Home-grown fast food franchise Hungry Lion is breaking new ground with a series of mobile coupon offers, racking up an impressive one million redemptions in their mobile activity thus far, delivered via wiGroup’s mobile transaction platform, wiPlatform. “Hungry Lion...

Business Partner Programme from Samsung

Samsung Electronics South Africa has launched its Business Partner Programme as part of the Samsung Team of Empowered Partners (STEP) initiative to enable partners to better integrate Samsung technology into their overall product and solutions portfolios. "Samsung is...

SAP Education, CE at UP form partnership

Continuing Education at University of Pretoria (CE at UP) in South Africa has been signed up as the first SAP Education university partner in Africa. SAP Education is an education-focused division of SAP Africa. The University of Pretoria is also a member of SAP’s...

Jens Montanana named Westcon chairman

Westcon, a division of Datatec Group, has announced that Datatec Group CEO, Jens Montanana, will succeed John McCartney as chairman of Westcon with effect from 3 September 2013. McCartney has been intimately involved in the company’s evolution and growth during his...

SMIT Amandla Marine deploys Sage 300 ERP

SMIT Amandla Marine, a specialist marine services company operating in southern Africa, has successfully implemented Sage 300 ERP and Spindle Professional as an Electronic Document Management Solution. In the niche market of specialist marine services, SMIT Amandla...

Five metrics to assess SMS marketing

Like with any marketing campaign, the only way to tell if your SMS campaign is working is to consistently measure and analyse the key areas of the campaign. In order to do this effectively, the key metrics need to be identified, measured and analysed in order to learn...

WD offers Sentinel RX4100 storage server

WD, a Western Digital company and leader in digital storage solutions has expanded its product portfolio addressing small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) with the addition of the WD Sentinel RX4100, its first 1U rack-mount small business storage server. “Following...

Mobile is the new VoIP frontier

Just as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) is in the process of becoming firmly entrenched as a standard approach for "landline" telecommunications, a new frontier is rapidly opening up. The consumerisation of technology has consumers of all kinds carrying with them...

High performance cultures boost business

Creating a high performance culture can serve as an equaliser for the rich diversity in the South African workplace with high performance team environments generally being perceived by employees as less stressful and more productive. "A high performance culture allows...

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Product Business Analyst – Gauteng Pretoria Region

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