Enslin moves up in SAP shuffle
South Africa’s Robert Enslin has been appointed to SAP’s executive board, along with Bernd Leukert, as the company announces that Dr Vishal Sikka, executive board member for products and innovation, is to step down for personal reasons, effective immediately....Twitter falls down on user engagement
Twitter needs to find new and sustained ways to engage users. This is according to Eden Zoller, principal analyst at Ovum, commenting on the social networking company’s first quarter results. “Twitter’s 1Q14 results saw a repeat of the key takeouts from the previous...Web to influence almost half of retail sales
By 2018, 44% of all in-store retail sales in Europe – or €920-billion – will be influenced by online research, up from 31% and €539-billion in 2013, according to Forrester’s first European cross-channel retail sales forecast. Northern European...Mobile VoIP comes of age in SA
Connection Telecom has attained CounterPath’s ITSP partner certification, making it the first to bring enterprise-class mobile voice over IP (MVoIP) solutions to South Africa. Rob Lith, business development director at Connection Telecom, says the Bria MVoIP app will...IBM invention reduces cloud bottlenecks
IBM inventors have developed a method for managing how resources are used and how work is done within a cloud by distributing control throughout the interconnected systems, reducing bottlenecks and increasing efficiency. The IBM cloud computing invention, US Patent...