MB Plant SA implements SAP HANA
4most’s upcoming installation of the SAP Business One version for SAP HANA at MB Plant SA is the perfect example of the direction that growing businesses in South Africa should be pointing their radars to. As the official and exclusive distributor for New Holland...
Turning on to customisable tech
So-called “disruptive” enterprise technology trends are becoming more prevalent in the market. IT administrators are struggling with the challenges and strain these trends bring to the IT department, says Bob Davis, CMO at Kaseya, IT services management software. IT...
Best Western International uses JDA Software
In order to enhance business intelligence and capabilities to drive higher revenue across all channels and segments, Best Western International has selected JDA Software Group, the supply chain company, as its strategic partner to embark upon a comprehensive price...
Adobe DPS drives 100m digital downloads
Adobe has announced that 100-million digital downloads – including magazines, newspapers, corporate publications and apps, all created with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) – have been delivered to readers and customers in just over two years. Today’s top...
Lombard Tyres stays on the road with SAP
Lombard Tyres, one of the country’s largest independent tyre dealers for the past 30 years, has turned to SAP Business One ERP technology to centralise its accounting, business management, stock control and reporting processes. “A major stumbling block for us was that...
Maitland boosts operational efficiency
Maitland, the largest third party administrator in South Africa, has selected SunGard’s Investran. Investran will help to automate the investment accounting process and investor reporting operations. The automation of key processes will help increase Maitland’s...
Unitrans upgrades to Sage ERP X3
The need for a seamless process and interaction between finance, logistics and workshops, in order to enhance service levels, led Unitrans to search for a centralised solution that would enable integration between the different business platforms. In addition, to...
What’s the worry with first time ERP?
Ambitious business owners soon come to a crossroads where they must decide to implement better business systems to support on-going growth, or choose to remain at a smaller scale, says Taryn Cromie, sales manager, HansaWorld South Africa. When this crossroads is...
Volume licensing makes the difference
According to AMI Partners, there are more than 1,4-million small and medium-sized businesses worldwide that spend $113-billion on software and IT services each year. Despite the fact that SMEs are very different to enterprise organisations, many IT vendors continue to...
JDA Software expands services
JDA Software Group has announced the launch of its new suite of strategic services designed to help organisations maximise their supply chain performance and keep it running optimally over time. Having helped hundreds of customers around the world achieve dramatic...
Complex software licensing grows obsolete
Software licensing models have evolved to keep pace with technological advances, yet licensing structures are still as complicated and convoluted as ever and many companies and consumers remain mystified as to how to go about implementing them to comply with all the...
Businesses should consolidate SAP
Research released by HCL Enterprise Application Services (EAS) has revealed that globally large enterprises could save nearly $30-billion in total through consolidating their instances of SAP. The global survey of 225 CIOs focussed on their organisations' current and...