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The real business value of SOA and cloud
The promise of both cloud and service-oriented architecture (SOA) is about delivering services to businesses, within and beyond the enterprise, with increased agility, speed and cost effectiveness, leading to greater innovation, improved collaboration, customer...
Wipro, AxiomSL form partnership
Wipro has announced that it has signed a partnership with Axiom Software Laboratories. The partnership between Wipro and AxiomSL seeks to address challenges faced by financial institutions with solutions that offer increased transparency, improved data integrity and a...
Kaseya refreshes channel programme
Kaseya has announced a newly enhanced Kaseya Partner Programme with powerful new tools and resources for technology solutions providers to grow their businesses. As members of the Kaseya Partner Program, authorised partners are equipped with the incentives, training,...
Infor CloudSuite for hospitality industry
Infor, a leading provider of business application software, has announced Infor CloudSuite Hospitality, offering industry customers access to applications within the cloud environment. Infor Hospitality builds upon Infor’s offerings available on Amazon Web Services...
Kaspersky scores in independent testing
In April, the respected AV-Comparatives independent testing laboratory published the results of the File Detection Test of Malicious Software conducted in March 2014. Kaspersky Lab’s protection solution for home users, Kaspersky Internet Security 2014, led the way for...
EMC acquires DSSD, extends Flash portfolio
EMC Corporation has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held DSSD. Menlo Park-based DSSD is the developer of innovative new rack-scale flash storage architecture for I/O-intensive in-memory databases and Big Data workloads like...
Obscuring your digital footprints
These days, most people have several online accounts. Anyone with a smartphone or who uses a PC regularly probably has multiple accounts – from social media, blogs, Web sites or special offer sites. Unfortunately, this means that our most personal information is...
Sony launches One Stadium Live
With the kick-off of the 2014 FIFA World Cup a month away, Sony Corporation, an official FIFA partner, announced on 12 May the launch of One Stadium Live, a one-of-a-kind social network site dedicated to football fans around the world. One Stadium Live is the latest...
TecnoChem rolls out SAP Business One
TecnoChem, manufacturer and distributor of a wide range of household and general cleaning chemicals, supplies product to both the consumer and industrial cleaning industry. Following significant growth over the last few years, TecnoChem found itself lacking the...
Kanhym Estates cuts costs with Ricoh
Kanhym Estates has decreased printed document output by 1-million pages; cut R480 000 per annum from its print expenditure; improved cash flow; reduced debtor days; and sped up processes based on a document workflow solution from Ricoh SA. Kanhym Estates is an...
CRM software market up 13,7%, says Gartner
Worldwide customer relationship management (CRM) software totalled $20,4-billion in 2013, up 13,7% from $18-billion in 2012, according to Gartner. "High levels of end-user investment in digital marketing and customer experience initiatives were the primary growth...
The wearable tech investment frenzy
Many giant electronics manufacturers, computer services companies and conglomerates have tens of-billions of dollars in the bank that is instantly available for investment to counter their saturating sales in mature markets, says Dr Peter Harrop. Samsung, General...
Turning data into revenue
Data monetisation – the art of turning information into actions that generate business revenue – is generating a lot of interest among enterprises around the world. The possibility that information can be collated and analysed, to deliver the silver bullets that...
The real business value of SOA and cloud
The promise of both cloud and service-oriented architecture (SOA) is about delivering services to businesses, within and beyond the enterprise, with increased agility, speed and cost effectiveness, leading to greater innovation, improved collaboration, customer...
Wipro, AxiomSL form partnership
Wipro has announced that it has signed a partnership with Axiom Software Laboratories. The partnership between Wipro and AxiomSL seeks to address challenges faced by financial institutions with solutions that offer increased transparency, improved data integrity and a...
Kaseya refreshes channel programme
Kaseya has announced a newly enhanced Kaseya Partner Programme with powerful new tools and resources for technology solutions providers to grow their businesses. As members of the Kaseya Partner Program, authorised partners are equipped with the incentives, training,...
Infor CloudSuite for hospitality industry
Infor, a leading provider of business application software, has announced Infor CloudSuite Hospitality, offering industry customers access to applications within the cloud environment. Infor Hospitality builds upon Infor’s offerings available on Amazon Web Services...
Kaspersky scores in independent testing
In April, the respected AV-Comparatives independent testing laboratory published the results of the File Detection Test of Malicious Software conducted in March 2014. Kaspersky Lab’s protection solution for home users, Kaspersky Internet Security 2014, led the way for...
EMC acquires DSSD, extends Flash portfolio
EMC Corporation has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held DSSD. Menlo Park-based DSSD is the developer of innovative new rack-scale flash storage architecture for I/O-intensive in-memory databases and Big Data workloads like...
Obscuring your digital footprints
These days, most people have several online accounts. Anyone with a smartphone or who uses a PC regularly probably has multiple accounts – from social media, blogs, Web sites or special offer sites. Unfortunately, this means that our most personal information is...