Business boot camp kicks off
The Seed Engine Business Accelerator has begun its first 13-week accelerator boot camp. Six teams of entrepreneurs have been selected from more than 300 applications. Each technology venture has been given R100 000 start-up capital to convert their ideas into...
Boost for local software development
Application development in South Africa is taking a step forward in terms of efficiency and productivity with the announcement of the formation of a joint venture to create “High-Maturity Software Development” (Hi-Mat) Units. Under the leadership of the Joburg Centre...
McMethod.net supports project management
Industry analysts agree that Project Management will play an increasingly significant role in business in 2013 and beyond. Service providers in this space are ploughing resources into the development of solutions designed to make a difference to decision makers as...
Oracle announces NetBeans IDE 7.3
Oracle has announced the general availability of NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 7.3. NetBeans IDE 7.3 features advanced HTML5, JavaScript and CSS development capabilities, for faster and easier rich Web and mobile application development. The new...
PPO aids AfriSam development
Leading black-controlled construction materials group in southern Africa, AfriSam has chosen to implement Project Portfolio Office (PPO), an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, in order to meet its project management and reporting...
bbd nurtures local app developers
Leading SA software development company bbd - with operations in South Africa and Europe - is continually striving to bring new skills into its local development teams. Each year the company scours universities for talented graduates to bring on board as interns, and...
MiX Telematics uses Real IRM solution
JSE-listed MiX Telematics, a global provider of driver safety, vehicle tracking and fleet management services and solutions, has formalised its business operating model and modelled its enterprise processes with the help of enterprise architecture specialist Real IRM....
CIH enhances processes with PPO
Capricorn Investment Holdings (CIH), a Namibian-based financial services group with interests in banking, insurance, asset management, investments and microfinance, is improving project status reporting, resource utilisation as well as timesheet management, with the...
Reasons for project failure
FOXit has had a handful of projects fail over the last year and a half. Upon reflection, Anita Potgieter, chief operations officer for the company, has come up with a number of potential reasons that could be behind the failure - from the sales cycle through to...
Ericsson unveils WebRTC platform
Ericsson has unveiled a new Web development platform that will allow any connected device to be turned into an always-open communications device. The world’s first IMS-based “Web Realtime Communications” (WebRTC) platform enables Web applications that will greatly...