Schroders believes that South Africa's inflation should come down, and monetary policy should start easing soon. By David Rees, senior emerging markets economist at Schroders Inflation in South Africa has continued to surprise to the upside in the past couple of...

At the G7 Summit in Japan, IBM announced a 10-year, $100 million initiative with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago to develop a quantum-centric supercomputer powered by 100 000 qubits. Quantum-centric supercomputing is an entirely new, and as of...

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on 18 September 18 that consumer price inflation increased from 4.0% year-on-year (y-o-y) in July to 4,3% y-o-y in August. This was slightly higher than economists' median expectation of 4,2% y-o-y. Nonetheless, this was the...

Westcon-Comstor, has expanded its global deployment solutions (GDS) capability into India. The new entity opens the door to transactions in one of the world's fastest growing economies and enables multi-national rollouts into the Indian sub-continent region. Active in...

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – Digital society is the key to our future, but as we focus on the detail of how to make digital transformation happen, we often forget the long-term vision. The future is a very difficult thing to talk about, remarks...

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town - Thanks to application programming interfaces (APIs), anyone can build the next "killer app" - but there's so much more to come. Paolo Malinverno, vice-president analyst at Gartner, says APIs are set to cause many...

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town - One of the best ways to design for the future is to look at the past - and we can learn how to apply artificial intelligence (AI) more effectively by examining high-profile failures. Some of the things we expect AI...

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town - Artificial intelligence (AI) will drive new ways of working, and we will see the emergence of a whole new AI-enabled workforce. There will inevitably be job losses as this happens, but the experts tell us that AI...

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town - The role of the CIO - largely unchanged for the last three decades - is under threat, and this is being exacerbated by the digital business transformation. The traditional CIO role is becoming commoditised, with less...

That Artificial Intelligence will replace the need for a human workforce, is a misconception. Rather, AI is an effective tool that can support a business to build a more efficient workforce and assist with cost-saving initiatives. This is the view of Wessel...