How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

Is talent debt depleting your institutional knowledge?

Organisations cutting costs through workforce reduction to weather tough conditions may be trading a visible saving for an invisible liability that will cost them far more later, warns Advaita Naidoo, Africa MD at executive search firm Jack Hammer Global. “Globally,...

In 2027, AI could account for 20% of all business tech spend

In the coming year, CIOs and CISOs will face growing pressure to realise returns on their AI investments in infrastructure, security, digital sovereignty, and emerging technologies, according to Forrester’s 2027 technology and security predictions. Additionally, with...

Banks expect to hand decisions to AI – even if they can’t explain them

Banks are racing toward a future where AI no longer merely informs key credit, treasury, and risk decisions – it makes them autonomously. Yet AI governance is not keeping pace with adoption, according to new AI risk research by FT Longitude, SAS and Microsoft. Even as...

AI set to change the retail playing field

The retail industry is in the midst of a major technology transformation, fueled by the rise in AI. With the highest potential for AI and analytics among all industries, the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) sectors are poised to harness the power of AI to...

Cloud migration a top priority for 2021

A massive 65% of companies indicate that cloud migration will be a top priority in 2021. This is one of the findings from a new survey of about 1 000 IT decision makers by Next Pathway, which also reveals three key themes: * Cloud migration is a journey. * Cloud...

2021 trends for app modernisation

Enterprises need to pick and choose those key cloud services most relevant to supporting app modernisation in order to accelerate digitisation and combat the effects of a global pandemic and economic fall-out. GlobalData predicts leading technologies and initiatives...

Low effort digital buying key to B2B sales success

The key to accelerating revenue growth for B2B sales organisations is a low-effort, digital buying experience that helps customers feel more confident about their decisions, according to Gartner. "The B2B buying journey has fundamentally changed in the last year, with...

Meerkat telescope makes landmark giant galaxy discovery

Two giant radio galaxies have been discovered with South Africa's powerful MeerKAT telescope. These galaxies are amongst the largest single objects in the universe and are thought to be quite rare. The discovery has been published online in the Monthly Notices of the...

2020 climate events show how excess heat is expressed

By most accounts, 2020 has been a rough year for the planet. It was the warmest year on record, just barely exceeding the record set in 2016 by less than a tenth of a degree according to NASA’s analysis. Massive wildfires scorched Australia, Siberia, and the United...

Stigma drives gamers to conceal their activities

One-third (33%) of gamers in South Africa are ashamed of how much they game and hide it from their parents. This is according to global research commissioned by Kaspersky and conducted by Savanta in November last year, which looks at gaming in 2020 across 17 countries...

2020 saw record growth for Europe’s channel

The European IT channel ended an extraordinary year on a high, with distribution sales hitting a record €26,3-billion and year-on-year growth of 10,2% for Q4, according to market research group Context. The figures are in keeping with a year in which the channel...

Microsoft still the most-imitated brand for phishing

In the last quarter of 2020, Microsoft was again the brand most frequently targeted by cybercriminals, as it was in Q3 2020. According to Check Point Research's Brand Phishing Report for Q4 2020, 43% of all brand phishing attempts related to the technology giant (up...

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Senior SAP PM Consultant

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