Aug 28, 2013
While global IT firms have tried valiantly for years to encourage girls and young women to enter the world of IT, the gender balance is still heavily loaded in favour of males. But new technology trends are set to make IT a very appealing career prospect for women in...
Aug 28, 2013
Big data – the practice of analysing large data sets – is increasingly driving value creation in organisations across all industries. Social business software (SBS) can play an influential part in businesses’ use of big data, due to the ability of SBS platforms to...
Aug 26, 2013
Large South African corporates are lagging far behind when it comes to the utilisation of big data analytics. This is due to a lack of understanding at an executive level of the competitive advantage big data analytics brings in enabling companies to respond to data...
Aug 23, 2013
Africa’s technology and business leaders have in their hands an unprecedented opportunity to surpass their global counterparts, says Ocea Garriock – Software Group technical leader, IBM SA. If we can harness the vast and growing sources of information known as...
Aug 20, 2013
Much has been said about big data, but the real question to be answered is whether the technology is being used by company, and what value it offers. Analyst Steven Ambrose points out that 50-billion devices will soon be connected to the Internet, adding to the wealth...
