Ecowize boosts business efficiency with Sage 300
Ecowize, one of South Africa's leading hygiene and sanitation service providers, has improved productivity and efficiency by implementing the Sage 300 (formerly known as Sage ERP Accpac) business management system. The group, which has more than 80 sites around South...
Sun International rolls out IFS Applications
Sun International, one of Africa's leading gaming and leisure brands, has successfully completed its implementation of the IFS Applications enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite. The new system enables the casino and hotel group to standardise processes and...
Time to retire legacy software
Legacy software vendors are forced to increase their annual license fees in order to meet financial targets. This together with inflation, escalating support costs, lengthy rollouts and vendor lock-in are reasons why legacy software’s days are numbered. This is...
Office 2016 takes the work out of working together
The release of Office 2016 is one of the major ways in which Microsoft is realising its ambitious goal of reinventing productivity and business processes in this mobile-first, cloud-first era. This, as technological advancement and trends such as social, mobile,...
Communication at the heart of business productivity
Modern organisations are composed of different age groups all with different ways of working, varying expectations, and diverse experiences. For instance, individuals from the millennial generation (born between 1980 and 1992) place a higher value on collaboration,...
Meeting Millennials’ workplace expectations
Around half of South Africa's people are aged under 25 and they are reshaping the working world with their new expectations of workplace technology. Businesses that want to make the most of millennials in their workforce need to ensure that they give young...
Redesigned, refined, supercharged: AMD’s Radeon suite
AMD has released its completely reimagined graphics software suite, Radeon Software Crimson Edition, giving users an exceptional new user experience, 12 new or enhanced features, up to 20 percent more graphics performance1, adjustability that can nearly double...
First steps on the journey to universal productivity
Last year, Microsoft announced its new mission - to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more - by delivering the best in-class productivity platforms and services for a mobile-first, cloud-first world. Achieving this lofty goal would...
Rigid ERP gives way to flexible business management
For years, businesses that have wanted to automate their business processes and capture transactions electronically have had to rely on monolithic enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to do so. But as powerful and feature-rich as the old-school ERP system is,...
SoftExpert launches SoftExpert Excellence Suite 2
SoftExpert, distributed in Sub-Saharan Africa by Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings has announced the launch of their SoftExpert Excellence Suite 2.0. SoftExpert is a market leader in software and services for enterprise-wide business process improvement and compliance...
Solutions to archiving and uptime issues in Office 365
Is Office 365 the one-stop cloud solution for business? Mimecast's senior sales engineer, Giulio Magni, looks at its potential shortcomings and how companies can overcome these. Microsoft has said that Office 365 is the future and the numbers agree. More than a...
IFS launches IFS Applications 9
IFS has announced a number of updates to its enterprise software suite IFS Applications 9. Among the new and enhanced features of IFS Applications 9 update 1 is the in-memory capability announced earlier this year. Part of the in-memory solution is IFS In-Memory...