Becoming a digitally transformed business
In a fast-moving connected world, companies are tasked with digitally transforming their businesses to stay relevant and competitive. Claude Schuck, regional manager for Africa at Veeam, examines this era of organisational evolution. "Digital transformation entails...
FM systems in Americas to top 16m
According to a new research report from the M2M/IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of active fleet management systems deployed in commercial vehicle fleets in North America was 5,8-million in Q4-2015. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17%, this...
SoftCo partners with Grant Thornton in SA
According to Grant Thornton's 2015 research of more than 2500 executives in 36 economies, over half (56%) of firms surveyed are either already automating business practices or may do so over the next 12 months. In South Africa, research revealed that 31% are already...
Cutting through the connectivity and value added services noise
How can the business cut through the noise to find the best providers of connectivity, network and cloud services without wasting time, money and patience, asks Ralph Berndt, director: sales at Syrex. According to a 2015 survey by IDG and Datalink survey, technology...
RS adds LoRaWAN development kits
RS Components has added a new range of LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) development kits from Semtech to its large portfolio of tools that support engineers designing Internet of Things (IoT) applications. LoRaWAN wireless networking delivers a longer range than...
What a connected society needs
In today’s more digital world, businesses have started to focus less on the amount of data consumed and more on just having fast and reliable connectivity, writes Brian Timperley, MD of MICROmega Group company Turrito Networks. The increasing commoditisation of data...
Telkom BCX offers Cisco’s HCS
Telkom Business Connexion and Cisco have launched one of one of South Africa’s first end-to-end hosted collaboration solution (HCS) offerings. Telkom Business Connexion and Cisco’s HCS offering utilises the cloud to address the on-premise pain points many businesses...
Evolving to bimodal IT: become agile, stay stable
One of the tell-tale signs of ICT evolution within emerging markets is the advent of bimodal IT, or the practice of managing two separate, coherent modes of IT delivery - one focused on stability, the other on agility. Gartner predicts that by 2017, 75% of IT...
IT managed services reduce risk, up performance
Gone are the days when a business simply needed to have a better product or service than that of its competitor, to succeed, and technology was merely a supporting tool to achieve this. Today, companies are driven to provide a unique customer experience - the more...
Adapting to the new digital workplace
The explosion of smartphones, tablets and Internet of Things (IoT) devices is transforming the way we communicate, consume services, and manage our personal lives. "The combination of mobile devices and cloud-based apps is also changing the very nature of our work...
Innovate in isolation at your own peril
Industry disruptors are forcing traditional organisations to move out of their comfort zones and unless they have a solid innovation strategy and roadmap in place to compete, they run the risk of becoming obsolete. This is the view of Vish Rajpal, group executive of...
Ericsson launches 5G plug-ins
5G subscription uptake will commence in 2020 and is expected to be faster than for 4G. The development of 5G is being driven by new use cases that will impact both consumers and industries. New applications and use cases anticipated for 5G include safe, self-driving...