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...

Supply chain analytics market to reach $22,46bn by 2030

The global supply chain analytics market size is projected to reach $22,46-billion by 2030, according to a new study by Grand View Research. The market is anticipated to register a CAGR of 17,8% from 2023 to 2030. Supply chain analytics (SCA) is becoming popular as...

Global hardcopy peripherals shipments decrease

Worldwide shipments of hardcopy peripherals declined 11,7% year over year to 19.5 million units in the second quarter of 2023 (2Q23). Shipment value also contracted 0,9% year over year during the quarter to $9.5 billion, according to new data from the International...

SA consumers reprioritise purchases

The Covid-19 outbreak looks set to further deepen and accelerate a well-established trend towards "cocooning" in South Africa as families stay home to keep safe and make better use of their finances - a trend that is likely to outlast the pandemic. This is according...

RPA implementation still lacking in SA

Robotic process automation (RPA) adoption is lagging in South Africa, and local organisations must move to organise their processes and start deploying RPA if they are to catch up with growing global progress towards hyper-automation. This is according to Johan Steyn,...

Most organisations plan to increase security spending

The coronavirus pandemic has changed almost every aspect of people`s lives, including how they socialize, shop, learn and work. With millions of people forced to spend more time indoors and online, these new circumstances created a huge space for cyber criminals to...

Massive growth in server attacks

While staying home is undoubtedly a safer option in these turbulent times, it does not mean that no threats are awaiting the users in the digital world. Kaspersky telemetry showed that both brute force attacks on databases and web attacks have grown by almost a...

Vigilance needed to protect personal info in social grant system

As the most financially vulnerable South Africans apply for the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant made available as part of government's R500-billion pandemic response, protecting their personal information should be paramount. The same applies to the millions...

Call for SA’s young citizens to be freed from lockdown

Lockdowns will not end while politicians have the excuse of a supposed duty to impose tyranny on the entire population, writes Eustace Davie, a director of the Free Market Foundation. Based on the excuse that they must, at all costs, keep high risk (mostly elderly)...

SUSE looks to the future

Kathy Gibson is at SUSECon Digital ’20 – It’s been a year since SUSE bought itself out of Micro Focus International and became an independent entity. During that time, the company has focused on helping customers to simplify, modernise and accelerate their businesses....

Simplify, modernise, accelerate help IT achieve business goals

Kathy Gibson is at SUSECon Digital ’20 – IT’s function is to provide the environment that allows organisations to meet their business goals. “SUSE is deeply committed to delivering this, helping customers to simplify, modernise and accelerate their systems. We package...

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