POPI Act brings burden to businesses

There could be serious operational, financial and legal implications for businesses that actively outsource a large proportion of their operations to third party service providers, particularly some critical business activities once the new Protection of Personal...

IT veteran starts B-BBEE enhancement service

The ability of companies to create competitive advantage and win business in the South African market based on their broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) scorecard rating can be an incredibly costly and extremely complex issue, says Hansie Fourie. Fourie,...

Is cloud right for your business?

Cloud computing is now evolving and growing exponentially, and businesses of all sizes, and across all industries are adapting to and adopting cloud technologies. Industry experts concur – cloud is here to stay, and will only continue to grow and develop more in the...

Shadow IT illuminates business, IT gap

As TDWI put it in its story, Meet the new BI-Enabled IT, “Industry luminary Jill Dyche champions a new, more responsive IT – enabled by business analytics.” Dyche was addressing attendees of TDWI’s World Conference in Las Vegas and offered alternative roles for IT: as...

The changing face of modern business

There is no escaping the changing face of modern business. The traditional picture of a company located in an “easy-to-travel” to building where employees physically work alongside each other, in a fixed and networked computing environment, no longer rings...