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African contact centres move to the cloud
Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium - Within Africa, the contact centre has been a very slow in moving to the cloud – but that move is starting to happen. Deon Scheepers, sales operations manager: Africa at Interactive Intelligence, warns that there are some...
Rectron, Samsung clean up print environment
Rectron South Africa, a leading distributor of computers, peripherals and accessories are for the second year running offering an exclusive trade-in promotion with Samsung. Rectron customers and resellers will receive discount vouchers valued from R150 to R1000 off...
Yahsat to reach 17 more countries
Yahsat has named the manufacturing and launch partners for the company’s recently announced third satellite, Al Yah 3, set to be launched in Q4 2016. This third satellite, within a decade of operation by Yahsat, extends the company’s commercial Ka-band coverage to an...
Fujitsu Server Primergy turns 20
Fujitsu has introduced a new generation of Fujitsu Server Primergy dual-socket systems designed not only to meet the business challenges of today, but also to anticipate tomorrow’s needs. Building on decades of innovation and experience in continuing to evolve its...
New role for the CIO
As the digital business becomes a reality, the CIO is having to re-invent his role in the business in order to remain relevant. This was the word from the Gartner Symposium held in Cape Town this week.
Digital humanists don’t cross over to creepy …
Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium - In the emerging world of digital business, organisations may end up knowing more about consumers than they are really happy with – and this could become a little “creepy”. Debra Logan, fellow at Gartner, says the “creepy”...
Investigating for impact sees growth in SA
The 2014 African Investing for Impact Barometer, released on 9 September in Cape Town, shows that investing for impact is on the rise in both South Africa and Nigeria. The financial industry is already abuzz with talk about the trend, and the Barometer is here to...
Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2015
Gartner has highlighted the top 10 technology trends that will be strategic for most organisations in 2015. They cover three themes: the merging of the real and virtual worlds, the advent of intelligence everywhere, and the impact of the rise of the digital business.
Mobile sales increase as PCs decline
There is definitely an ongoing shift in IT strategy in 2014, which is expected to lead to a bigger move away from the desktop to an inexorable support for mobile technology, says Asgar Mahomed, MD of Esquire Technologies. According to a recent survey of 440 IT...
IT: solid as a rock, but still fluid
Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium - IT has to tread the fine line between innovating in a digital business environment and remaining solid and reliable. Jeffrey Mann, research vice-president of Gartner, says being rock solid is the core of the business, but...
South African banks must restore trust
The recent failure of African Bank, and the subsequent Moody’s downgrading of all South African banks, indicates a serious lack of trust in the compliance culture of our banking system, says Gary Allemann, MD, Master Data Management. Realistically, no other South...
Yes, digitalisation will disrupt your industry
So far, the industries that have been most disrupted by digitalisation have been those without a physical product: music, consulting, media. We are now seeing massive new disruptions as even physical products are being digitalised and more traditional companies than ever before are impacted.
Lessons learnt from digital success stories
Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium - Digitalisation is already impacting businesses, and it’s crucial that CIOs have an understanding of how technology will fundamentally change business models, add value and drive revenue. Gartner’s Lee Weldon points out...
African contact centres move to the cloud
Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium - Within Africa, the contact centre has been a very slow in moving to the cloud – but that move is starting to happen. Deon Scheepers, sales operations manager: Africa at Interactive Intelligence, warns that there are some...
Rectron, Samsung clean up print environment
Rectron South Africa, a leading distributor of computers, peripherals and accessories are for the second year running offering an exclusive trade-in promotion with Samsung. Rectron customers and resellers will receive discount vouchers valued from R150 to R1000 off...
Yahsat to reach 17 more countries
Yahsat has named the manufacturing and launch partners for the company’s recently announced third satellite, Al Yah 3, set to be launched in Q4 2016. This third satellite, within a decade of operation by Yahsat, extends the company’s commercial Ka-band coverage to an...
Fujitsu Server Primergy turns 20
Fujitsu has introduced a new generation of Fujitsu Server Primergy dual-socket systems designed not only to meet the business challenges of today, but also to anticipate tomorrow’s needs. Building on decades of innovation and experience in continuing to evolve its...
New role for the CIO
As the digital business becomes a reality, the CIO is having to re-invent his role in the business in order to remain relevant. This was the word from the Gartner Symposium held in Cape Town this week.
Digital humanists don’t cross over to creepy …
Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium - In the emerging world of digital business, organisations may end up knowing more about consumers than they are really happy with – and this could become a little “creepy”. Debra Logan, fellow at Gartner, says the “creepy”...
Investigating for impact sees growth in SA
The 2014 African Investing for Impact Barometer, released on 9 September in Cape Town, shows that investing for impact is on the rise in both South Africa and Nigeria. The financial industry is already abuzz with talk about the trend, and the Barometer is here to...