Four trends shaping the UX design space
We’re all attracted to products and services that are easy to use, bring us enjoyment and improve our lives. We can’t explain why a product is well designed or why we like to use it – it just is and we just do. It’s a decision we make subconsciously without realising that a lot of thought and research went into the product – through a processes known as customer-centric design, says Reynhardt Uys, associate consultant, Customer Experience and User Experience, at BSG.
Standardise platforms for digital change
Organisations today are faced with the need to engage with customers in realtime and develop products and solutions dynamically to meet changing requirements, says AJ Hartenberg, portfolio manager: Data Centre Services at T-Systems in South Africa. The challenge lies...
Five tips for creating apps
Today’s business environment is recognising that communication is key to driving business performance. While marketing is still perceived as advertising and branding and so on, communication has evolved to include technological software developments that gather...
SOA key for business agility, transformation
The term service oriented architecture (SOA) has fallen out of the everyday IT lexicon in recent years and replaced by the more on-trend buzzwords of cloud computing, big data, mobile-first and the social enterprise, says Saurabh Kumar, MD of In2IT Technologies South...
It’s time for a mobile app strategy
Mobility brings improvements to the enterprise in terms of efficiency and lower operational costs. This means that by investing in a mobile strategy, employees are given the tools needed to make better and faster decisions. Is delivering mobile applications really...
Business analysis workshops from IndigoCube
IndigoCube has launched a portfolio of 18 workshops aimed at helping business analysts fully internalise knowledge learned during training by using it in reallife work situations under guidance of an expert. The workshops typically take place at client premises, and...
Intel brings the Developer Zone to SA
At an event hosted in Johannesburg, Intel South Africa announced the local availability of its Intel Developer Zone, a global programme designed to provide software developers and businesses with a single point of access to a variety of tools, communities and resources. The Intel Developer Zone provides a platform for developers to engage with peers and develop, market and sell their software.
A new approach for delivering mobile apps
The need to build compelling and highly usable customer, employee and partner facing mobile apps is driving a new breed of app platform - Rapid Application Delivery (RAD). Platforms specifically designed to meet the needs of multichannel apps that run perfectly on any...
Solutionsonsite offers Agile training for business
Specialist Cape Town-based Agile training company Solutionsonsite has announced a first-of-its-kind course for business professionals involved in managing Agile software development requirements. Designed with business analysts, product owners and other key team...
Agile adoption set to grow in 2015
2015 may be the year the pendulum swings – towards more rapid adoption, or a large agile failure. Sufficient Agile skills, improved market understanding of Agile and changes to company philosophy to align with agile values will be the weighing factors, according to niche consulting and technology company, BSG. Creating continuous business value accelerates time to market, increases productivity and allows IT and business to better align so that changing priorities can be better managed. The true challenge, however, is to create more market understanding on what an Agile approach is and, what it takes to succeed.
RS enhances DesignSpark PCB software
RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents, has unveiled the latest release of DesignSpark PCB, the company's award-winning rapid prototyping software for electronics. Supporting engineers in the design phase, DesignSpark PCB Version 7.0 adds three of...
Atos uses CA to embrace app economy
Atos has chosen CA Technologies to assist them to enable customers to fully embrace the opportunities presented by the application economy. This will be achieved with the launch of a new and innovative Service Virtualisation and Agile Testing Centre of Excellence...