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Making a success of ERP implementation
An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system will change the way that a company does business, says Johani Marais, channel manager for Africa, Epicor Software Corporation. By helping to increase profits through improved efficiencies, enabling decision making and...
IT departments are taking strain
When asking call centre managers how they go about choosing the technology that supports their business, the answers are invariably the same. They are approached by vendors who sell solutions, or perhaps they turn to analysts’ opinion. And sometimes, they rely on...
Plessie partners with ShoreTel, Tellumat
KZN telecommunications company Plessie has announced that it has partnered with ShoreTel and ShoreTel’s South African distributor Tellumat Communication Solutions, to provide unified communications (UC) and enterprise contact centre (ECC) solutions to its extensive...
Quintica, Caridon form strategic alliance
Leading local specialist ICT organisation Quintica is pleased to announce that it has formed an alliance with specialist consulting firm Caridon Business Solutions. As per the partnership Quintica customers will now be able to benefit from the governance, risk,...
Alcatel-Lucent unveils new cloud suite
Alcatel-Lucent has announced a new suite of solutions to help enterprises migrate to the cloud and apply more cost effective business models as they address the challenge of delivering communications services for a highly mobile, application-driven workforce. Cloud...
Lenovo takes on African market
Lenovo is taking on the African market, with huge emerging market growth fuelling interest in the company’s PC+ strategy. Graham Braum, CEO of Lenovo Africa, points out that the company has spent the last few months targeted selected African markets. He believes...
Vodacom extends LTE services
Vodacom has become the first network in South Africa to offer LTE (commonly referred to as 4G) services to all its customers. LTE represents the next evolution in mobile with connection speeds many times higher than 3G, translating into faster downloads and stutter...
LTE users set to double
There will be a rapid uptake of 4G LTE mobile broadband technology in the next two years, with the subscriber number doubling from an estimated 105-million subscribers this year to nearly 220-million in 2014. This is according to a new report from Juniper Research...
Storage appliances see positive growth
Both factory revenue and unit shipment growth for security appliances rose in the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12) compared to the previous quarter. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, worldwide factory...
Google pilots TV White Spaces project
Google and its partners have today announced the launch of a TV White Spaces (TVWS) trial with 10 schools in the Cape Town area. White spaces are unused channels in the broadcast TV spectrum. They offer the potential to improve Internet connectivity in the developing...
HP helps business gain big data value
HP Enterprise Services today announced a new information management and analytics (IM&A) service designed to help clients rapidly gain increased value from big data assets to support their efforts to drive new revenue opportunities, improve efficiency, reduce risk...
The three elements of workforce optimisation
Workforce optimisation (WFO) helps companies improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their customer interactions through solutions that capture interactions across all channels, analyse to reveal insights, and drive actions that impact business results and the...
Price hike to affect data centre pricing
Recently the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) granted power utility Eskom an 8% average increase per annum over the next five years. Lex van Wyk, chief executive officer of Teraco Data Environments says that with five years of power increases above...
Making a success of ERP implementation
An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system will change the way that a company does business, says Johani Marais, channel manager for Africa, Epicor Software Corporation. By helping to increase profits through improved efficiencies, enabling decision making and...
IT departments are taking strain
When asking call centre managers how they go about choosing the technology that supports their business, the answers are invariably the same. They are approached by vendors who sell solutions, or perhaps they turn to analysts’ opinion. And sometimes, they rely on...
Plessie partners with ShoreTel, Tellumat
KZN telecommunications company Plessie has announced that it has partnered with ShoreTel and ShoreTel’s South African distributor Tellumat Communication Solutions, to provide unified communications (UC) and enterprise contact centre (ECC) solutions to its extensive...
Quintica, Caridon form strategic alliance
Leading local specialist ICT organisation Quintica is pleased to announce that it has formed an alliance with specialist consulting firm Caridon Business Solutions. As per the partnership Quintica customers will now be able to benefit from the governance, risk,...
Alcatel-Lucent unveils new cloud suite
Alcatel-Lucent has announced a new suite of solutions to help enterprises migrate to the cloud and apply more cost effective business models as they address the challenge of delivering communications services for a highly mobile, application-driven workforce. Cloud...
Lenovo takes on African market
Lenovo is taking on the African market, with huge emerging market growth fuelling interest in the company’s PC+ strategy. Graham Braum, CEO of Lenovo Africa, points out that the company has spent the last few months targeted selected African markets. He believes...
Vodacom extends LTE services
Vodacom has become the first network in South Africa to offer LTE (commonly referred to as 4G) services to all its customers. LTE represents the next evolution in mobile with connection speeds many times higher than 3G, translating into faster downloads and stutter...