Infrastructure limits African opportunities

Companies doing business on the African continent have identified transport and logistics infrastructure as the most challenging constraint to business operations, followed closely by bribery and corruption.  According to Hennie Heymans, MD of DHL Express South...

Operations software shows growth

Worldwide IT operations management (ITOM) software revenue totalled $18-billion in 2012, up 4,8% from $17-billion in 2011, according to final results from Gartner.  However, Gartner points out that the “Big Four” ITOM vendors – IBM, CA Technologies,...

Lower semiconductor sales in 2012

Worldwide semiconductor revenues decreased by 2,2% year-over-year to $295-billion in 2012, according to the latest version of the International Data Corporation (IDC) Semiconductor Application Forecaster (SAF).  The industry witnessed a slowdown during the second half...