Fair, transparent forex charges elusive for SA businesses
In the world of international business, forex transactions are the lifeblood that keeps the global economy alive with an estimated daily volume of $7,6-trillion as of April this year. The South African chunk of that amounts to over $19,1-billion. Local businesses rely...
The real cost of unplanned downtime
According to the new 'Value of Reliability' survey from ABB, 72% of industrial businesses experience unplanned outages at least once a month, compared to 68% globally. This costs the typical South African business close to R724 000 per hour, compared to R2 350 000...
How the pandemic has impacted the TMT sector
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a big impact on the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector, and this is set to continue. Aon's global COVID-19 Risk Management and Insurance Survey, conducted at the end of 2020, came up with a number of insights into...
Golden age of tech puts jobs at risk
Smart connected machines are set to put both blue collar and white collar workers out of jobs in large numbers, and this wave of change will force paradigm shifts in education, work and society as a whole. So says Sean Culey, business transformation expert, futurist...
Budget takes plight of ordinary taxpayers into account
In this year's budget speech, Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni steered a course between providing some relief to beleaguered taxpayers after a challenging year while still trying to stick to the government's existing fiscal plans. This is according to Thomas Lobban,...
Mboweni sticks to a realistic path in 2021/22 Budget
South African Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivered the 2021/22 Budget on Wednesday that treads a pragmatic path between over-spending and too much austerity, as the economy grapples with the impact of Covid-19 and lockdowns. By Wesley Grimm, Joon Chong, Cor...
Budget 2021: a quick view
Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni delivered his Budget Speech 2021 to Parliament on Wednesday 24 February. Lullu Krugel, chief economist for PwC Strategy& Africa; and Dr Christie Viljoen, PwC Strategy& economist, provide an overview of key information relating...
Perseverance snaps first full-colour pic of Mars
The first high-resolution colour image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras on the underside of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, following its landing on 18 February 2021. This follows video from its landing that chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of...
Salaries shrunk in January 2021
The real average and overall salary paid contracted in January 2021 after coming under strain from the pandemic and level 3 lockdown, according to the latest BankservAfrica Take-home Pay Index (BTPI). However, South Africa's real private pensions reached the best...
IDC expects AI market growth to improve in 2021
Worldwide revenues for the artificial intelligence (AI) market, including software, hardware, and services, are forecast to grow 16,4% year over year in 2021 to $327,5-billion, according to the latest release of the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide...
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DiData wins Polycom awards
Dimension Data, the $5,8-billion global ICT solutions and services provider, has announced Polycom, the global leader in open standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C), has named Dimension Data as both Global and EMEA System Integrator of the...
PayU allows payment with Discovery Miles
PayU, an online payment service provider that processes over 65% of the e-commerce transaction value in South Africa, has announced a partnership with Discovery that enables the company to offer Discovery Miles as a secure payment method to Discovery approved online...
Green Apple IT delivers IT services to Bauba
Bauba Platinum, a JSE-listed platinum exploration service, is a holding company for various mineral prospecting rights for platinum group metals mineralisation, collectively known as the Bauba Project. The company operates primarily in the Eastern Bushveld Igneous...
Lorge wins at Sage awards
Sage ERP X3, Sage 300 ERP (formerly Accpac) and Sage CRM technology and solutions provider Lorge, celebrating its 27th year in business, has won more major awards at the annual Sage awards ceremony in Johannesburg at the weekend, including Sage 300 ERP Best Achiever,...
SunGard identifies outsourcing trends
“The current economic and regulatory environment, as well as the maturation of outsourcing providers, is leading corporations to consider using outsourcing and other managed services more broadly," says Brian Anderson, an executive of SunGard Systems South Africa. ...
mapIT, Integrat announce Developers Day
To follow on from the last successful mapIT Developers Day held in Johannesburg, South Africa in October 2012, mapIT is looking at expanding their service offering across Africa and will be hosting their first Developer’s Day in Nairobi, Kenya on the 25 March 2013....
Nashua Mobile app available on BlackBerry 10
Nashua Mobile is proud to announce that its existing smartphone app is now also available for BlackBerry 10. Nashua Mobile developers worked closely with the BlackBerry smartphone developers to ensure that the app would be available at launch, aiming to provide...
MTechSA wins at Avaya awards
Telecommunications systems solution provider MTechSA has been awarded the title of Partner of the Year for Small and Medium Business in MEA by Avaya at its 2013 PartnerConnect conference and awards ceremony hosted in Johannesburg in January. The event, which was in...
Defining ‘process’ in BPM
Part two of a four part series by SoftExpert, Roger Tregear, a manager at Leonardo International and Ian Huntly, CEO of Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings, representatives in Sub-Saharan Africa of SoftExpert, a market leader in software and services for enterprise-wide...
NWK implements SUSE server
Leading agricultural service provider NWK has migrated its entire z/VSE mainframe workload to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z and is using one IFL on its new IBM zEnterprise 114 server. Processing speeds have improved by more than 70% when compared with the...
IT Support Manager at Ntice Search – Gauteng Johannesburg
Our client, a leader in the Foodservice Equipment industry, is looking for an IT Support Manager to join their team in Roodeport, Johannesburg. You will oversee the company's hardware, software and infrastructure. IT Support Manager responsibilities include monitoring...
Front-end Developer (Blazor) – Eastern Cape Gqebera
SUMMARY:The main goal of this position is to combine technology and design to create inviting, easy-to-use websites for consumers. This role will form part of the IT Product team and will regularly engage with teammates and clients to design, develop, test, implement...
Senior Java Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg
Min of 5-10 years java experience.Strong back end and front end development skillsStrong SQL skills, especially on MSSQLSolid experience in the following technologies:SOAMicroservicesDockerJavaAngularNodeJSBootstrapSpring...
Functional Analyst
Background The main purpose of these Functional Test Analysts is to develop end to end Test Cases and help provide quality systems to business problems for programme sky. Objectives of this Scope of WorkThe main purpose of this position is to plan and execute the...
Senior Full Stack Developer (Python & Angular)
ENVIRONMENT:THE coding expertise of a forward-thinking Senior Full Stack Developer who's keen on contributing to a high-impact project is sought by a provider of Data-driven solutions with a global operational footprint. Joining a collaborative team, you will help...
Software Developer (Integration)
SUMMARY: The primary purpose of this role is to be a great developer. You will form part of the Integration team and will regularly engage with your teammates and our clients to design, develop, test, implement and support the solutions that we have in place, and the...
Applications Developer and Support
PurposeTo assist the Senior Database and Applications Developer in designing, developing and maintaining high performance scalable and secure database solution in order to ensure successful and efficient database solutions meeting the business requirements. Minimum...
APPLICATIONS DEVELOPER AND SUPPORT at Secondments Recruitment – Gauteng Midrand
Job Advert SummaryOur client is looking for Applications Developer and Support to ? Evaluating and analyzing user requests and business requirements to developed applications within the MS windows environment.? Developing business applications in line with SDLC and...
SAP Authorization Consultant – Western Cape Cape Town
Our client in the global management consulting space is seeking the expertise of a SAP Authorization Consultant. This role primarily centers on business systems, particularly SAP ERP and Cloud platforms, emphasizing role-based authorizations, system security, and...
Intermediate C#.Net (API) Developer – Gauteng Pretoria
To be involved in the development of a public facing website based on Microsoft products, including the development of API's (Application Program Interfaces) and message integration functionality. The development will be done using C# within the Microsoft IDE to...
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