Hidden costs, complexities of ERP training

End-user training and education is key to the success of any large enterprise IT project, especially the deployment of a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. Yet all too many companies still treat it as one-line item in their implementation budgets, says...

Beware the cost of holiday roaming

Travellers who are planning to take their smartphones, tablets or laptops overseas this festive season and haven’t factored in the cost of data roaming could find their trip turning out to be a lot more expensive than they expected. People still tend to think they...

New Web traffic pricing from Afrihost

Afrihost has announced another price drop for their hosting clients. Having won the ISP of the Year for a third year in a row at this year’s MyBroadband conference, Afrihost will now be focusing their attention on making their cloud and dedicated hosting products even...

Understanding the costs of ERP

Like all essential solutions, enterprise resource planning (ERP) comes with an associated ongoing cost of ownership. But careful planning and new delivery models make ERP total cost of ownership (TCO) manageable, says HansaWorld. Taryn Cromie, sales manager at...

Taking a malware hit

Malware attacks mean financial losses for about 36% of users – with many people forced to pay to restore damaged devices to working order. This figure emerged from the recent 2013 global survey conducted by B2B International and Kaspersky Lab. It is widely but wrongly...