Deep dive into Power Platform
Microsoft Power Platform is a group of products to develop and build complex business solutions, analyse, and draw data visualisations, automate a business process, or build virtual agents for communication. All these products offer a platform in which no code is...
App development tools for a new age
The war for tech talent is well and truly engaged, with South African organisations competing for scarce skills resources against companies around the world. The brain drain is nothing new and South Africa continues to lose skilled workers to international...
The modern enterprise and the app of the future
The last couple of years brought new challenges to companies of all sizes as they adapted first to Covid-19 lockdowns and now to a post-pandemic environment that looks very different to what it did in the early months of 2020. March 2020 saw companies around the world...
Initiative aims to inspire more girls to enter careers in STEM
Vodacom has launched a follow-up to its stimulating #CodeLikeAGirl programme that will see 700 girls between the ages of 14 and 18 receive coding training from 27 June to 15 July 2022. The Vodacom #CodeLikeAGirl programme is aimed at inspiring more girls to explore...
The future of DevOps and QA
There is little doubt that DevOps has evolved. It has become one of the foundational pillars of the agile organisation, delivering measurable value to the organisation across the important metrics of quality, speed of delivery, reliability and customer experiences. It...
Global recognition for Decision Inc at SAP hackathon
Decision Inc was the second runner up at the recent global SAP Hack2Build rapid prototyping initiative. The annual hackathon, held over eight days in March, is designed to drive early stage inspiration, use case exploration, and technology adoption for SAP partners....
Outsourcing could help with software developer skill shortage
Continued economic instability and the normalisation of remote working are pressuring South African organisations to find more effective ways of overcoming the scarcity of in-house software development resources. This is according to specialised software development...
Next phase of Kubernetes education will drive simpler deployment
Globally, Kubernetes is still in its early educational phase as a technology. On Gartner's Hype Cycle, container management currently sits on top of the peak of inflated expectations. By Chris Norton, regional director: Africa at Veeam Software If Kubernetes and other...
Zindi to host data science talent at UmojaHack
A massive 2 000 students from 200 universities across 30 African countries will participate in UmojaHack Africa 2022 to win up to $10 000 in prize money and become part of the next generation of global data professionals. "We can't wait to kick off our third annual...
Cell C partners with GirlCode to develop coding, digital skills
Cell C has partnered with GirlCode to bring a coding programme to youth aged between 10 and 18 years. The GirlCoder Club is open to both boys and girls, however, to improve their levels of exposure to the ICT world, the programme is primarily focused on girls. The...
Hackathon finds solutions to workplace biases
GirlCode has announced the winners of its women-only hackathon, which encouraged teams to find solutions for workplace biases against women. The GirlCodeHack took place last weekend in Johannesburg, at 22onSloane with 50 aspiring female developers girls participating...
Pillars of a well-architected framework
Regardless of the individual technologies, cloud strategies, or data-driven insights that have become key for today's organisational success, a well-architected framework is the foundation on which any IT environment must be built. By Constant Kannenberg, solutions...