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...

African industrial systems are under attack

Malicious objects of all types were detected and blocked on 34% of Industrial Control System (ICS) computers in the first half of 2023, according to the ICS CERT landscape report by Kaspersky. In Africa over this period attacks were detected on 40,3% of ICS computers,...

AMD extends edge solutions

AMD has announced AMD Kria K24 System-on-Module (SOM) and KD240 Drives Starter Kit, the latest additions to the Kria portfolio of adaptive SOMs and developer kits. AMD Kria K24 SOM offers power-efficient compute in a small form factor and targets cost-sensitive...

Tech companies see signs of business stability

Technology companies continue to see customer interest in cybersecurity, cloud computing and other areas, perhaps indicating that the business environment is stabilising. According to a new survey by CompTIA, the percentage of tech firms that reported receiving new...

In the digital age, parents really don’t understand their kids

Modern parents have to constantly educate themselves and keep up to date when it comes to the Internet trends. There is a strong reason for it - their children. If parents do not know what is popular on the Internet, they can have misunderstandings or even conflicts...

Standard Bank aims to become a platform business

Standard Bank has concluded an extended agreement with global customer engagement expert Salesforce to deliver positive digital experiences to its clients. Standard Bank Group chief executive Sim Tshabalala says the collaboration with Salesforce - together with the...

External enterprise storage market declines

EMEA external storage systems market value in 2020Q1 was down 10,7% year on year in dollars and 8,1% in euros, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. Once again, the quarter saw marked differences across...

Realtime cargo tracking solutions needed

The number of active tracking devices deployed for cargo loading units including trailers, intermodal containers, rail freight wagons, air cargo containers, cargo boxes and pallets reached 7,5-million worldwide in 2019. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)...

In-car technologies that can mitigate Covid spread

As Covid-19 begins to influence the technologies that are embedded into vehicles, car manufacturers should focus on four specific areas to help lessen the risk of infection to car occupants, according to Gartner. These areas include disinfection, possible detection of...

Cloud infrastructure continues to grow in 2020

Vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, increased 2,2% in the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20) while investments in traditional, non-cloud,...

Supply chain leaders look to China alternatives

A Gartner survey of 260 global supply chain leaders in February and March 2020 found that 33% had moved sourcing and manufacturing activities out of China or plan to do so in the next two to three years. Survey results show that the Covid-19 pandemic is only one of...

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SAP Business One Consultant – Remote Remote

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