MTechSA wins at Avaya awards

Telecommunications systems solution provider MTechSA has been awarded the title of Partner of the Year for Small and Medium Business in MEA by Avaya at its 2013 PartnerConnect conference and awards ceremony hosted in Johannesburg in January.  The event, which was in...

Electronic payments boost SA’s GDP

The growth in the use of electronic payment products, such as credit and debit cards, added $8-billion to the gross domestic product (GDP) of South Africa, according to a study conducted for Visa by Moody’s Analytics. The study of 56 countries, including South Africa,...

Massive mobile growth for SA

There will soon be more than 54-million mobile users in South Africa, and traffic over mobile networks will increase by about 58% every year.  According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017, in the Middle East and...

BI vital, but application lacking

Business intelligence (BI) and analytics continue to be a top CIO investment priority – yet user surveys by Gartner show that only 30% of potential users in an organisation adopt CIO-sponsored analytics tools. This appears to be changing, however, as...