Making the modern network a must for the board
There's a saying in football that you never notice a good referee. Yet they have the most important job - ensuring the match runs as smoothly as possible. Without a referee to police the action, countless games would descend into chaos. By Nick Cross, vice-president:...
Massive growth for fleet management systems
The number of active fleet management systems deployed in commercial vehicle fleets in Australia and New Zealand was almost 1-million units in Q4-2019 according to a new research report from the leading IoT analyst firm Berg Insight. Growing at a compound annual...
Proptech fuels growth in property entrepreneurship
We keep hearing how the property sector has been one of the slowest to adopt new technologies and that its digital transformation journey is nowhere near other industries that rely on disruptive new tech to maintain productivity levels and enable improved efficiency....
The real value of IoT is transformative innovation
The Internet of Things (IoT) is more than the sum of its interconnected parts. The vast swathes of sensors and software and systems that pull together insights and information and allow for industry and innovation. IoT is also far more than the media hype that has...
Low-touch economy emphasises a digital-first approach
2021 will see the rise and dominance of the low-touch economy with a digital-first mantra, according to Grant Phillips, CEO of e4. Driven by the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic had on the global economy, Phillips says that business adoption of low-touch interactions...
Application workloads can’t defy the laws of network physics
In the wake of all that has happened this year, the rate at which application workloads have shifted to the public cloud has significantly accelerated. By Greg McDonald, director: systems engineering at Dell Technologies South Africa According to Flexera's 2020 State...
Technology, people, and purpose at the heart of 5IR
The African continent could proactively embrace the Fifth Industrial Revolution (5IR) and drive the adoption thereof. To do so, however, requires investment in a combination of skills and technology as new job opportunities emerge. Speaking at the AEF Digital Energy...
VMware unveils Modern Network framework for data centre, cloud
VMware has unveiled the Modern Network framework to enable businesses, and their IT and application development teams, to accelerate adapting to a new normal. To help customers realize a modern network of their own, VMware also announced further enhancements to its...
Data management vital for future-ready tax practitioners
Future-ready tax practitioners will need to learn data management to become effective advisors. This is according to Ettiene Retief, chairman of the National Tax and SARS Committee at the South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA), addressing SAIPA's...
Embrace a remote, video-driven business environment
The disruption companies across Africa have experienced due to the pandemic has been significant. On the one hand, employee safety had to be prioritised by enabling them to work from home. And on the other, business operations had to continue as effectively as...
Digital transformation is about the experience
While many businesses were on the road to Digital Transformation (DX), there is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated these strategies and projects. By Andrew Hoseck, chief operations officer at In2IT Technologies 'Nice to have' technology became 'must have'...
How to compete in the trust and attention economy
Leveraging your data is not a tech problem, it's about your internal coordination, team and resources, writes JD Engelbrecht, MD of Everlytic. As businesses and consumers, we are accumulating data faster than ever before. Today, we have progressed far beyond the human...