New role for finance in digital world

New role for finance in digital world

Kathy Gibson at SAPInsider in Vienna June 2016 – In the new world of digitalisation, the systems traditionally associated with finance are not the only ones relevant to the finance role.Digital finance is about creating realtime continuous processes with no manual...
ICT: Government needs collaboration

ICT: Government needs collaboration

Kathy Gibson reported from IDC Cloud and Data Centre Roadshow in Rosebank – There is still a fair amount of scepticism about the implementation of cloud in a developing economy, largely because of its perceived high cost. The poor quality of connectivity and...
Telcos shift focus to customer experience

Telcos shift focus to customer experience

It’s no longer enough for telecommunications companies to focus only on their networks. To compete effectively in the new world, they are going to have to pay a lot more attention to the full customer experience. Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei MEA Service...
Competition Comm signs off Dell/EMC merger

Competition Comm signs off Dell/EMC merger

Kathy Gibson reported from the Dell Executive Forum in Limpopo: In South Africa, all regulatory hurdles ahead of Dell’s acquisition have been cleared, and the local operation is ready to proceed as soon as all global conditions have been met. This is according to Doug...
Dell SA is open for business

Dell SA is open for business

Dell SA hosted an Executive Forum in Limpopo for its top partners, to outline the company’s offerings and to demonstrate how it is open for business with partners. Kathy Gibson reports Serious about partnering The IT reseller channel is critically important for...
Kaspersky Lab: industrial threats to the fore

Kaspersky Lab: industrial threats to the fore

The threat landscape is changing rapidly and, in the future, attacks are not going to be limited to just one person or company but could target entire communities, cities or countries. Industrial threats were under the spotlight at a recent Kaspersky Lab conference....