New m-health services from Vodacom Business

Vodacom Business, the enterprise division of Vodacom Group, has announced the launch of a number of m-health initiatives, together with its partner Mezzanineware.  Based on a centralised mobile/cloud environment, Vodacom’s Mezzanine m-health services allow health care...

CIOs intend to increase IT spending

Riverbed Technology reveals that 71% of CIOs expect to increase IT spending in 2013.  The findings are the result of an independent research project regarding IT spending priorities across numerous industries in Europe. The survey was commissioned by Riverbed and...

Technology enables mining sector compliance

Mining companies’ non-compliance with procurement rules is touted as a hindrance to transformation in the sector.  “The level of compliance is not what it should be,” said Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu during her annual departmental budget...

IT must adapt to technology consumers

The speed at which technology devices are moving into the business is a cause for concern for the IT department. But not in the sense that these devices are unwanted, but rather through the highlighting of the need for IT to start providing the same levels of service...

SAS, NWU build data science skills

SAS and North-West University (NWU) has announced the launch of the SAS Advanced Analytics Laboratory in the Centre for Business Mathematics and Informatics (BMI), the first of its kind in South Africa. Through the Centre for BMI, students will be able to enroll for...