From WFH to WFA: addressing distributed work security challenges
Research and advisory firm Gartner has found that, after the Covid-19 pandemic abates, businesses will face a new kind of challenge: managing hybrid workforces. According to Gartner, 82% of business leaders plan to let employees continue to work from home (WFH) in at...
Top considerations for a comprehensive DR strategy
IT infrastructure has evolved dramatically over the years, and alongside this, so too has the nature of disasters. By Kate Mollett, regional director of Commvault Africa Where once, a disaster was an infrequent event related to extreme weather or hardware failure,...
RPA to empower business, drive future skills
Businesses today are on the perpetual hunt for new ways to add value and drive growth - and are increasingly looking to intelligent technology like Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to run smarter in a challenging economic climate. By Emma Murray, chief operating...
The rise of the modern intranet
Does the term "intranet" conjure up nightmares of cluttered file-sharing or a never-ending page of links that makes it impossible to find what you need? By Greg Gatherer, account manager at Liferay According to Forrester, many employees consider intranets to be their...
How RPA can benefit your organisation
The digital age has brought us many beautiful things, but it has also brought digital drudgery. Where we once filled out forms in triplicate, we now copy and paste the information with hundreds or thousands of mind-numbing, repetitive keystrokes. By Rudolph Janse van...
Yes, we are still working from home
Work is no longer something that happens in an office environment. Instead, the workplace has moved away from the office to be anywhere where an employee has reliable connectivity. By Ivaniza Araujo, BDM Cisco small business at Westcon-Comstor Sub-Saharan Africa Even...
Agricultural best practice benefits from cloud technology
The continued improvement of labour conditions, environmental sustainability, ethical compliance through the value chain, and adherence to best practice in agriculture are all factors that the best farmers and producers in South Africa strive to achieve - and reaching...
Key considerations when embarking on your modernisation journey
Some old technologies still have a purpose, grudgingly so, rather than by design. A number of organisations have what is now deemed 'legacy' technology, but in some cases there-in lies the 'heritage' for those organisations as those core applications hold the logic...
How to know if your digital maturity isn’t progressing
Innovation and agility. These are the characteristics of a business that have become crucial to not only its survival but its long-term success as a result of a dynamic and constantly changing market environment. By Brent Haumann, MD of Striata We all know the famous...
LanDynamix migrates ManpowerGroup to global network
LanDynamix has successfully migrated the South African operations of its long-standing client, ManpowerGroup South Africa, onto the parent company's global network. The move follows a decision by ManpowerGroup to move all its subsidiaries onto a single global...
The way we work: from ‘all change’ to ‘you choose’
In 2020, we saw a generation's worth of change to working habits unfold at an accelerated pace over a few months. Alain Tshal, district manager at F5, Sub-Saharan Africa Remote work - which many parts of the business world had been gradually moving towards - became an...
Digital transformation crucial to the future of mining in SA
Mining has played a crucial role in South Africa's economy for the best part of two centuries. And while it may not play as big a role as it once did, it still contributed R400-billion to GDP in 2020 and employed more than 450 000 people. But if the sector is to...