IT changes financial services industry

According to recent research by Deutsche Bank, financial services firms will spend between $270-billion and $460-billion on IT in 2013 globally. The explosion of technology has changed the financial services industry from a paper and branch business to digitised and...

Khayelitsha Hospital wins award

The Western Cape’s Khayelitsha Hospital has scooped yet another award – this time garnering the Ministerial Award for National and International Contribution in the Arts and Culture, Language, Heritage, Geographical Names, Museums, Libraries or Archives fields from...

India has potential to lead in IT

India has the potential to lead the world in the adoption of the nexus of forces, which is the convergence and mutual reinforcement of social interaction, mobility, cloud and information. However, for this to happen, a number technological and socioeconomic shifts...

SA retailers must prepare for omni-channel

The growth of retail e-commerce continues unabated with global sales exceeding $1-trillion in 2012. The scale and the pace of change has been disruptive, allowing some early adopters to grow market share in lieu of those lagging in the adoption of on an online model,...

Information Builders helps fight fraud

Information Builders, the supplier of business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity and integration solutions, says it is working with numerous public sector customers to reduce the instances and impact of fraud, waste and abuse through realtime data...