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New role for finance in digital world

Jun 29, 2016

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

Jun 9, 2016

Three challenges – affordability, access and availability – are keeping scepticism about the implementation of cloud in a developing economy alive, says Sulieman Patel, acting CIO of the National Department of Public Works.

Telcos shift focus to customer experience

May 26, 2016

By outsourcing, companies can increase their time-to-market speed and can use an agile infrastructure – both of which make the organisation more flexible and can drive revenue growth ~ Edward Poh, senior consultant, Huawei

Competition Comm signs off Dell/EMC merger

May 18, 2016

the Competition Commission has cleared the Dell/EMC merger, making South Africa one of the first countries ready to proceed. The anticipated date for the official merger is 1 February 2017.

Dell SA is open for business

May 18, 2016

Dell SA Partnerships: “In the South African context, we don’t have the skills sets or the scale to effectively address this market, so a partner ecosystem is important to us.”

Kaspersky Lab: industrial threats to the fore

Apr 19, 2016

How are cyber threats growing with digitisation and the growth of IoT? Kathy Gibson reports from Kaspersky Labs’ Cybersecurity conference in Baku, Azerbajain.

Transformation under the CeBit spotlight

Mar 29, 2016

CeBit is one of the world’s largest IT conferences and exhibitions, held annually in Hannover, Germany. Kathy Gibson attended this year’s event in March 2016. Survival in a data-driven world There can be no doubt that we have become a data-driven society – but the way...

Oracle Cloud Day

Nov 25, 2015

Oracle Cloud Day was held in Bryanston on 24 November. Kathy Gibson reports New leaders needed for digital business A new type of leader, and a new leadership model, is needed for digital businesses. Abbie Lundberg, president of Lundberg Media and contributing editor...

A glimpse of the future with MyWorld of Tomorrow

Nov 9, 2015

The MyWorld of Tomorrow conference and exhibition was held at the Sandton Convention Centre from 22 to 24 October 2015. Kathy Gibson learnt a lot about how the Internet of Things (IoT) is set to change our lives on all fronts. Creating African solutions for Africa...

‘Ready for any’ at VMworld

Nov 4, 2015

“Ready for any” was the theme at VMworld Europe, and the company continues to push the boundaries of the data centre. Carl Eschenbach, president and chief operating officer of VMware, points out that one of the major challenges for IT organisations is the creation of...

All the new research from Gartner Symposium

Oct 2, 2015

Gartner Symposium, held this week in Cape Town, was the first on the research company’s world tour. Brand new research findings were presented for the first time, with concepts like the bimodal business, algorithmic business and the digital workplace about to become...

SMEXA 2015 looks at service governance

Sep 24, 2015

As computing becomes more pervasive, and enterprises move to digitalisation, the need for good service management and governance is more pronounced than ever before.

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