The pressure to optimise costs and maximise productivity is at the forefront of all business leaders' minds. Today, this pressure is exacerbated by disruptive technology, the increasing complexity of geopolitics and global trade, evolving risk and regulation, and the...

Continuing economic woes, higher inflation and low confidence levels have led to another monthly decline for salaries in May 2023, unlike average private pensions that remained robust, according to the latest BankservAfrica Take-home Pay (BTPI) and Private Pensions...

Organisations across sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly leveraging multiple cloud deployments to achieve digital transformation. The shift is one of the key findings in World Wide Worx's new Cloud in Africa 2020 report, which surveyed technology decision-makers in...

Accelerated by Covid-19, emerging digital technologies, especially AI and IoT, are fundamentally changing the consumer journey in the consumer product market. A new report from Lux Research, "The Digital Transformation of the Consumer Journey", outlines how companies...

With limited vaccine manufacturing capacity around the world, South Africa will have to prioritise its own requirements in the interest of securing access to a vaccine as a matter of national security. This is according to Minister of Higher Education, Science and...

A Gartner poll of business and IT professionals reveals that 24% of respondents' organisations increased their artificial intelligence (AI) investments and 42% kept them unchanged since the onset of Covid-19. Growth - namely customer experience and retention, and...

International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Server Tracker shows that in 2Q20 the EMEA server market reported a year-on-year (YoY) decrease in vendor revenues of 5,8% to $3,9-billion and a YoY decrease of 6,9% in units shipped to around 470 000. When viewing the EMEA...

Digital transformation has received a boost in the wake of global Covid-19 disruption. A new survey from Gartner finds that 69% of boards of directors (BoDs) accelerated their digital business initiatives, and almost half anticipate changing their organisations'...

The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) is to work with California-based Eightfold.ai to help connect tourism jobseekers with employers and so drive the global recovery of the sector. The new partnership will see UNWTO harness the power of the Eightfold Talent...

Worldwide unified communications & collaboration (UC&C) revenue grew 25,1% year over year and 12,4% quarter over quarter to $11,5-billion in the second quarter of 2020 (2Q20), according to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly...