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Consol extends T-Systems partnership
Africa’s largest glass manufacturer, Consol Glass, has extended its contract for five years with T-Systems in South Africa. The extension underscores a six-year partnership which has, among other things, seen Consol migrating its SAP business application...
Disappointment as skills grant cut
The halving of the skills training grant is going to have a massive impact on small businesses and, given the mood of retrenchments playing out in the mining sector at the moment, this decision could even affect larger companies as the effects of retrenchments take...
Winning app targets sanitation
Team Shinsekai from Senegal has won first prize in Ericsson’s Apps for African City Life Competition, for developing an app that aims to support environmental sanitation and hygiene development in cities. Dadja Matiasso Bassou, project leader for team Shinsekai, says:...
Positive half-year for Adapt IT
JSE-listed Adapt IT Group, an IT services and specialised solutions provider, has announced outstanding interim results for the period ended 31 December 2012. Turnover increased 53% from R88,7-million in 2011 to R135,9-million, with the education sector contributing...
Defining ‘process’ in BPM
Part two of a four part series by SoftExpert, Roger Tregear, a manager at Leonardo International and Ian Huntly, CEO of Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings, representatives in Sub-Saharan Africa of SoftExpert, a market leader in software and services for enterprise-wide...
NWK implements SUSE server
Leading agricultural service provider NWK has migrated its entire z/VSE mainframe workload to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z and is using one IFL on its new IBM zEnterprise 114 server. Processing speeds have improved by more than 70% when compared with the...
IBM honours Kenya’s MoDe
IBM has announced that MoDe was named the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year. Based in Nairobi Kenya, MoDe provides instant nano-credit for pre-paid mobile phone users across the African continent. Nearly 80% of mobile phone users in growth markets do not have access...
Itec helps PenBev go green
Peninsula Beverage Company (PenBev), bottler of the products of The Coca-Cola Company in the Western and Northern Cape, has reappointed Itec Innovate as its office automation service provider following a competitive tendering process. The contract covers 30...
Preventing data loss
Information theft is the most profitable crime in the world today, as well as the one posing the least risk to the criminal. In most instances, breaches are not done by mysterious genius hackers in Eastern Europe, but by insiders who have been given the keys to the...
Securing cloud computing
Cloud computing is predicted to be the future of the technology world, and analyst reports abound on the expected growth of the uptake of these solutions. However, security issues remain one of the dominant barriers with the adoption of cloud solutions. Many...
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 organisations...
Join the climate change debate
South Africa has committed to a low-carbon economy, and companies are invited to join the debate around the National Climate Change Response White Paper. On 26 February, Champions of the Environment Foundation in partnership with the Gordon Institute of Business...
Consol extends T-Systems partnership
Africa’s largest glass manufacturer, Consol Glass, has extended its contract for five years with T-Systems in South Africa. The extension underscores a six-year partnership which has, among other things, seen Consol migrating its SAP business application...
Disappointment as skills grant cut
The halving of the skills training grant is going to have a massive impact on small businesses and, given the mood of retrenchments playing out in the mining sector at the moment, this decision could even affect larger companies as the effects of retrenchments take...
Winning app targets sanitation
Team Shinsekai from Senegal has won first prize in Ericsson’s Apps for African City Life Competition, for developing an app that aims to support environmental sanitation and hygiene development in cities. Dadja Matiasso Bassou, project leader for team Shinsekai, says:...
Positive half-year for Adapt IT
JSE-listed Adapt IT Group, an IT services and specialised solutions provider, has announced outstanding interim results for the period ended 31 December 2012. Turnover increased 53% from R88,7-million in 2011 to R135,9-million, with the education sector contributing...
Defining ‘process’ in BPM
Part two of a four part series by SoftExpert, Roger Tregear, a manager at Leonardo International and Ian Huntly, CEO of Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings, representatives in Sub-Saharan Africa of SoftExpert, a market leader in software and services for enterprise-wide...
NWK implements SUSE server
Leading agricultural service provider NWK has migrated its entire z/VSE mainframe workload to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z and is using one IFL on its new IBM zEnterprise 114 server. Processing speeds have improved by more than 70% when compared with the...
IBM honours Kenya’s MoDe
IBM has announced that MoDe was named the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year. Based in Nairobi Kenya, MoDe provides instant nano-credit for pre-paid mobile phone users across the African continent. Nearly 80% of mobile phone users in growth markets do not have access...