Nutanix, Intel collaborate on Innovation Lab
Nutanix announced the launch of a joint innovation lab in collaboration with Intel. The Nutanix-Intel Joint Innovation Lab will dedicate both products and engineering resources to the continued exploration, adoption and productisation of Intel's latest innovations in...
Intelligent collaboration at the heart of the digital workplace
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen businesses in every industry rushing to send their employees home to work remotely. In fact, the common maxim today is that staying online as a result of the pandemic will likely become a permanent feature of corporate culture in the...
How IoT can drive post-pandemic industry growth
With the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus forcing industry leaders to rethink traditional human capital deployment and the use of manual labour, emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and automation are coming into sharper focus. By...
People the most important aspect of digital transformation
Many companies mistakenly believe that deploying cloud-enabled solutions or digitalising documents and feeding them into revamped workflows ticks the digital transformation box. They couldn’t be more wrong. By Gerrit Olivier, founder and CEO of About IT Digital...
The evolution of network infrastructure in a brave new world
The 'new normal' has supplanted digital transformation as the phrase of choice in business today. Of course, this is not without its merits, considering that the Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the operating environment. Relying on the network...
Covid-19 drives RPA uptick
South African enterprises are increasingly looking to robotic process automation (RPA) to support business continuity as the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to disrupt operations. Gavin Els, project manager at CFS Robotics, says interest is picking up fast among...
UP, CSIR collaborate on smart transport, cities and environments
The University of Pretoria (UP) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to collaborate in the area of smart transport, cities and...
SA needs agile data infrastructure to weather Covid-19
In the first few months of 2020, the world was spun on its axis. Faced with a challenge we had not yet encountered on such a scale before, we saw the globe come to a standstill. And as life resumed we were hit with the realisation that there is no going back to the...
Understand business benefits to overcome automation challenges
Peter Clarke, CEO of LanDynamix, says that while automation offers significant benefits, companies will also encounter challenges that need to be worked through. "One of the key principles to bear in mind is that each challenge must be looked at in the context of the...
Finance is becoming data-driven and strategic
South African chief financial officers (CFOs) and senior finance professionals recognise that the world is changing, with a perfect storm of technological and social forces changing the rules of business in this digital era. By Pieter Bensch, executive vice-president:...
Start automation with low-hanging fruit
The automation journey should begin by identifying the mundane, repetitive processes that are essential to a business but that consume valuable staff time. "Every business has them: dull, repetitive tasks that need to be done but that can be soul-destroying and...
People, not technology, deliver digital transformation reality
Digital transformation has become an operational necessity. It is the roadmap to process, the journey to digitalisation success and the GPS coordinates the organisation needs to shift gears into the future. It is the step taken by public and private sector to invest...