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CMOs use data to understand customers
High-performing CMOs are integrating internal and external data to garner deep insights that, in turn, provide them with a much deeper understanding of their customers. A new IBM study entitled Stepping Up to the Challenge: How CMOs can start to close the aspiration...
MEA manufacturers enthusiastic about IT
With Middle East and Africa (MEA) manufacturers showing considerable enthusiasm for IT, and comfortably outspending their counterparts in Central and Eastern Europe, the sector is well set for a significant boost in productivity and an increase in competitiveness,...
Life is tough for South Africa’s SMEs …
Business confidence in the small business sector remained subdued in the last quarter of 2013 even though overall sentiment was marginally better than in the previous quarter, according to the latest findings of the Nedbank Small Business Index (NSBI) fourth-quarter...
Thin clients under pressure in 2014
Thin client shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) increased by 2,9% year-on-year in 2013 to 1,85-million units, according to the EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker published by International Data Corporation (IDC). After a gloomy start of...
Otel quadruples broadband fibre
Otel Telecoms has increased its Telkom SAIX Broadband Internet capacity to meet the increasing number of enterprise and SME customers migrating from contended Internet via ADSL or Fibre to a 1:1 uncapped, uncontended and unshaped solution. Carmen Boshoff, last mile...
Pinnacle Africa distributes Samsung products
Pinnacle Africa is proud to announce that it has been appointed as an official distributor of Samsung Techwin’s B2B CCTV products. Pinnacle Africa is an entirely owned subsidiary of the JSE listed Pinnacle Holdings and works in close synergy with the other...
Samsung focuses on digital working world
As the digital revolution increasingly permeates our work and private lives, IT is becoming the heart of a company. Yet for information technologies to truly offer added value, they must be seamlessly integrated into a network and aligned to meet the users’ needs. At...
MTN offers new PayAsYouGo bundles
MTN South Africa today introduced three new MTN PayAsYouGo bundles (R7, R12 and R17) that offers its prepaid customers more free value and a guaranteed rate of 99c per minute at any time of the day across all networks. The MTN PayAsYouGo bundles also include free...
Six steps to becoming a social business
With businesses today diving into the social space at a dizzying pace, Oracle Social Cloud and Altimeter Group have released a new e-book that details how organisations can evolve across an increasingly dynamic and competitive landscape and become socially enabled...
Collibra involves users in data governance
Master Data Management, the reseller for Collibra in South Africa, has announced the latest integration of Collibra’ Data Governance Centre with IBM Infosphere, extending clients’ investment in IBM Infosphere to a wider business audience. Historically, data management...
SA must address the right to affordable data
Approximately 90% of the 6,4-million South Africans that access the Internet in South Africa do so solely from their mobile phones, according to the latest statistics from World Wide Worx. In light of this, the theme of this year’s World Consumer Rights Day – “the...
SMEs need government support for growth
Government support is needed for small businesses still feeling the strain of poor cash flow, higher input costs, labour issues and a slowing economy. This was one of the conclusions reached by the Nedbank Small Business Index, releasing its figures for the fourth...
SMEs look to Africa for growth
Small businesses in South Africa are looking to Africa for growth as local market conditions remain constrained. This is one of the findings of the Nedbank Small Business Index, which last night released figures for the fourth quarter of 2013. According to the Index,...
CMOs use data to understand customers
High-performing CMOs are integrating internal and external data to garner deep insights that, in turn, provide them with a much deeper understanding of their customers. A new IBM study entitled Stepping Up to the Challenge: How CMOs can start to close the aspiration...
MEA manufacturers enthusiastic about IT
With Middle East and Africa (MEA) manufacturers showing considerable enthusiasm for IT, and comfortably outspending their counterparts in Central and Eastern Europe, the sector is well set for a significant boost in productivity and an increase in competitiveness,...
Life is tough for South Africa’s SMEs …
Business confidence in the small business sector remained subdued in the last quarter of 2013 even though overall sentiment was marginally better than in the previous quarter, according to the latest findings of the Nedbank Small Business Index (NSBI) fourth-quarter...
Thin clients under pressure in 2014
Thin client shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) increased by 2,9% year-on-year in 2013 to 1,85-million units, according to the EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker published by International Data Corporation (IDC). After a gloomy start of...
Otel quadruples broadband fibre
Otel Telecoms has increased its Telkom SAIX Broadband Internet capacity to meet the increasing number of enterprise and SME customers migrating from contended Internet via ADSL or Fibre to a 1:1 uncapped, uncontended and unshaped solution. Carmen Boshoff, last mile...
Pinnacle Africa distributes Samsung products
Pinnacle Africa is proud to announce that it has been appointed as an official distributor of Samsung Techwin’s B2B CCTV products. Pinnacle Africa is an entirely owned subsidiary of the JSE listed Pinnacle Holdings and works in close synergy with the other...
Samsung focuses on digital working world
As the digital revolution increasingly permeates our work and private lives, IT is becoming the heart of a company. Yet for information technologies to truly offer added value, they must be seamlessly integrated into a network and aligned to meet the users’ needs. At...