Technology News
SA companies open up to handing over email security
Managed IT security vendor Securicom continues to enjoy impressive year-on-year growth in the interest and adoption of its email security and content management service as evolving email-borne security threats and the increasing complexity of security technologies...
Boost speed, reduce costs with HP printers
Boost productivity and enhance print speeds while reducing printing costs with HP’s OfficeJet Enterprise Colour MFP X585 series from distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC). This new series of multifunction printers lets you copy, scan and fax, and print at twice...
e4 shortlisted for SA Compliance Award 2014
Local technology services company e4 has been added to a shortlist of contenders hoping to win a 2014 Southern Africa Compliance Award. The awards were created to identify and reward achievement by compliance professionals within the broader business community. e4 has...
Powafix chooses Econz Wireless Mobile Timecard Lite
Powafix, a supplier to the paint, building and allied trades, has implemented Econz Wireless Timecard Lite employee tracking system to track and monitor the performance and productivity of its merchandisers in Johannesburg and Durban. “Our merchandisers are strategic...
Hortonworks partners with Avanade on big data
Hortonworks, a major contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache Hadoop, has announced an alliance partnership with Avanade to build new big data solutions and services based on Microsoft technologies. Avanade’s data analytics deployments for enterprise clients...
Adopting a hub and spoke ERP model
The two-tier enterprise resource planning (ERP) model, also referred to as hub and spoke, is gaining global market acceptance. Louis Laurie, marketing director of Dac Systems, believes the model offers benefits for local organisations. "As the name suggests, the...
Empower call centre agents with smartphone support
Investment in strong online customer care strategies is becoming an imperative in the mobile operator industry, especially in Africa, where the first wave of smartphone users is on a rapid rise. Nonetheless, customer care agents are not properly equipped to deal with...
Dell debuts network functions virtualisation platform
Dell has introduced its NFV solution offerings and companion starter kits, comprising Dell systems and software combined with software from open ecosystem partners and open source distributions to help jumpstart carrier trials and adoption. Dell’s NFV solutions can...
Océ debuts small but scalable light production press
Océ South Africa has added the Canon imagePress C800 series, a range of three colour printers with a throughput of 60 pages per minute (ppm), 70ppm or 8ppm, to its product offering. The target range of these devices is from 40 000 to 70 000 A4 pages. “A powerful and...
How the cloud is transforming HR and payroll management
Cloud computing and mobility bring a range of powerful benefits for HR and payroll managers, enabling them to become more efficient while offering their employees and the business a better quality of service. That's according to Anton van Heerden, MD of Sage HR &...
UCT seeks special minds for innovation degree
University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business (GSB), is looking for a special kind of person to join its 2015 intake of the Master of Philosophy specialising in Inclusive Innovation (MPhil). Now in its third year, the MPhil is an interdisciplinary,...
Datacentrix scoops Canalys channel award
Datacentrix has been named by independent analyst company, Canalys, as the winner of its “Infrastructure Growth” award for the EMEA region. The organisation received the accolade at the recent EMEA Canalys Channels Forum in Cannes, France. The awards form part of...
Load balancing covers all bases
Ten years ago, if you had asked a reseller or CIO about the players in the load balancing market, chances are that only a few companies would have sprung to mind. The fact is that load balancing in those days was a costly ‘big iron’ purchase aimed at only the large...
SA companies open up to handing over email security
Managed IT security vendor Securicom continues to enjoy impressive year-on-year growth in the interest and adoption of its email security and content management service as evolving email-borne security threats and the increasing complexity of security technologies...
Boost speed, reduce costs with HP printers
Boost productivity and enhance print speeds while reducing printing costs with HP’s OfficeJet Enterprise Colour MFP X585 series from distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC). This new series of multifunction printers lets you copy, scan and fax, and print at twice...
e4 shortlisted for SA Compliance Award 2014
Local technology services company e4 has been added to a shortlist of contenders hoping to win a 2014 Southern Africa Compliance Award. The awards were created to identify and reward achievement by compliance professionals within the broader business community. e4 has...
Powafix chooses Econz Wireless Mobile Timecard Lite
Powafix, a supplier to the paint, building and allied trades, has implemented Econz Wireless Timecard Lite employee tracking system to track and monitor the performance and productivity of its merchandisers in Johannesburg and Durban. “Our merchandisers are strategic...
Hortonworks partners with Avanade on big data
Hortonworks, a major contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache Hadoop, has announced an alliance partnership with Avanade to build new big data solutions and services based on Microsoft technologies. Avanade’s data analytics deployments for enterprise clients...
Adopting a hub and spoke ERP model
The two-tier enterprise resource planning (ERP) model, also referred to as hub and spoke, is gaining global market acceptance. Louis Laurie, marketing director of Dac Systems, believes the model offers benefits for local organisations. "As the name suggests, the...
Empower call centre agents with smartphone support
Investment in strong online customer care strategies is becoming an imperative in the mobile operator industry, especially in Africa, where the first wave of smartphone users is on a rapid rise. Nonetheless, customer care agents are not properly equipped to deal with...