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Print management solutions unlock value
In the modern office environment, companies are constantly seeking ways to improve their proficiency and minimise their expenses. Inefficient printing practices have been identified as an important factor of stifled productivity during the work day, as well as a main...
Qlikview, Pragma sign agreement
Top international physical asset management company, Pragma, has signed an agreement with QlikTech, a leader in business discovery – user-driven business intelligence (BI). QlikView will be embedded within Pragma’s On Key 5. The brand new Analytics module, as it will...
Samsung announces Dream the Blues winners
Samsung Electronics South Africa yesterday announced the two winners of the South African leg of the global Samsung Electronics and Chelsea "Dream the Blues" football training camp competition, which took place in Johannesburg the past weekend (16 and 17 February...
Broadband trial a success, says Telkom
Telkom reports that its high-speed broadband trial has been successful. The pilot started in October 2012 and has given participating Internet customers access to speeds of up to 20Mbps and up to 40Mbps. “The pilot has seen participating customers experience...
Phones, tablets lead in mobility
It is clear that smartphones and tablets are driving mobility growth, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The company’s Worldwide Quarterly Smart Connected Device trader shows that vendors shipped 367,7-million desktop PCs, portable PCs, tablets and...
Humanitarian groups move to the cloud
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRS) has expanded on a global enterprise agreement with a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) to offer Microsoft Office 365 and other products as the standard communications and collaboration...
Shaky start for notebook market
The world’s leading notebook PC original design manufacturers (ODMs) will endure a bleak first quarter and slow first half in 2013, before ultrathin PC sales help revive the market later in the year, according to an IHS iSuppli PC Dynamics Market Brief from...
Polygraphs mooted to pre-empt crime
Rooting out “career criminals” is taking on a whole new meaning, as more and more businesses resort to polygraph testing to get to the bottom of workplace crime, as well as to identify would-be trouble makers before they are even hired. Willem Marshall, a...
BI still in growth territory
Worldwide business intelligence (BI) software revenue will reach $13,8-billion in 2013, a 7% increase from 2012, according to Gartner. The market is forecast to reach $17,1-billion by 2016. "BI and analytics have grown to become the fourth-largest application software...
Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr users hacked
Users of Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr may have had their data compromised. The warning was issued following a breach to Zendesk, the company that supplied customers support service for all of the social networking companies. Zendesk posted a blog about the breach,...
LV= adopts Mendix App Platform
LV=, one of the UK’s largest insurers, has adopted the Mendix App Platform for its fast-track development of innovative applications. In the hotly competitive insurance industry, LV= has seen its business grow rapidly over the past five years, which has created...
Ruckus grows presence in Botswana
Ruckus Wireless has appointed IT-IQ Botswana as a Top Dog reseller and authorised training partner (ATP) in the region. This agreement will see IT-IQ being the official reseller of all Ruckus Wireless solutions in Botswana – effective immediately. “Botswana is a...
MicroStrategy, BITanium deliver BI solutions
Business intelligence (BI) solutions provider BITanium has partnered with global enterprise software giant MicroStrategy to deliver off-site BI solutions to South African enterprises. Chris O’Connell, BITanium MD, says BITanium, one of the biggest MicroStrategy...
Print management solutions unlock value
In the modern office environment, companies are constantly seeking ways to improve their proficiency and minimise their expenses. Inefficient printing practices have been identified as an important factor of stifled productivity during the work day, as well as a main...
Qlikview, Pragma sign agreement
Top international physical asset management company, Pragma, has signed an agreement with QlikTech, a leader in business discovery – user-driven business intelligence (BI). QlikView will be embedded within Pragma’s On Key 5. The brand new Analytics module, as it will...
Samsung announces Dream the Blues winners
Samsung Electronics South Africa yesterday announced the two winners of the South African leg of the global Samsung Electronics and Chelsea "Dream the Blues" football training camp competition, which took place in Johannesburg the past weekend (16 and 17 February...
Broadband trial a success, says Telkom
Telkom reports that its high-speed broadband trial has been successful. The pilot started in October 2012 and has given participating Internet customers access to speeds of up to 20Mbps and up to 40Mbps. “The pilot has seen participating customers experience...
Phones, tablets lead in mobility
It is clear that smartphones and tablets are driving mobility growth, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The company’s Worldwide Quarterly Smart Connected Device trader shows that vendors shipped 367,7-million desktop PCs, portable PCs, tablets and...
Humanitarian groups move to the cloud
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRS) has expanded on a global enterprise agreement with a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) to offer Microsoft Office 365 and other products as the standard communications and collaboration...
Shaky start for notebook market
The world’s leading notebook PC original design manufacturers (ODMs) will endure a bleak first quarter and slow first half in 2013, before ultrathin PC sales help revive the market later in the year, according to an IHS iSuppli PC Dynamics Market Brief from...