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How to retain top talent
One of the most urgent issues for organisations in 2014 will be how leaders can effectively target, nurture and advance top talent in their organisations – and there is a new emphasis on the demand for the right kind of talent. In a recent article by Sylvia Ann...
SA must work to retain retail leadership
Rwanda, Nigeria, Namibia, Tanzania and Gabon occupy the top five places of the inaugural AT Kearney African Retail Development Index (ARDI). South Africa ranks seventh due to the developed nature of its retail market. The new study by AT Kearney is designed to help...
Uphill battle for chief customer officers
At least 47% of chief customer officers (CCOs), identified by Forrester in its eighth annual CCO evaluation, work at firms with $1-billion or more in annual revenue. In addition, 31% of these large firms are S&P 500 companies, which means that more than 6% of...
Net1, Supa Pesa partner in Malawi
South Africa-based Net1 Mobile Solutions, a business unit of Net 1 UEPS Technologies, together with partner Supa Pesa has expanded its Advance Airtime African footprint with the launch of TeleKom Networks Malawi (TNM) Airtime Credit service, Pasavute. Pasavute, which...
NSA surveillance hype must not be ignored
Last year, when Edward Snowden dropped the revelation that the United States National Security Agency was peering into the private data of individuals and companies, the world sat up and took notice. All the hype that security companies had been generating over the...
Rectron wins at D-Link awards
At a recent awards ceremony in Rome, Italy, D-Link, a global leader in design, manufacture and marketing of advanced networking, broadband, digital, voice and data communications acknowledged its channel partners in the annual Distributor Excellence Awards. A major...
Cloudgate ends 40-year reign of desktop PC
Desktop computers have become a drain on the IT resources of organisations. “An IT department has a primary function: to deliver applications to end-users. Everything else - security, uptime, backups, support and maintenance - are important, but secondary to the...
Surge protection key for the SOHO
Lightening strikes, unstable power and voltage fluctuations are a common occurrence in South Africa, says Elrica Quick, APC specialist at Drive Control Corporation. Power surges and dips, as well as the massive voltage fluctuations caused by lightning, can damage...
Cloud bursting solves network overload
Research from World Wide Worx shows that e-commerce is growing at around 30% a year in South Africa, and that total spend on goods, services and Internet infrastructure is R59 billion. Although this is great news for business, we have to consider how servers will cope...
Orange joins EU ERP initiative
Orange Business Services has joined a European Union-sponsored initiative to play a key role in the development of new business intelligence and IT standards that are set to improve management tools used by the shipping industry. A key goal is to help shipping...
Customer experience key focus for CIOs
With consumers engaging more directly with businesses through mobile and social media, more than 60% of chief information officers (CIOs) will focus more heavily on improving the customer experience and getting closer to customers, according to a new report released...
Huge growth for regional tablet shipments
Shipments of PC tablets into the Middle East and Africa (MEA) expanded 111% year-on-year in the final quarter of 2013, according to the latest results released by International Data Corporation (IDC), with the overall MEA tablet market reaching a total of 3,45-million...
MEA infrastructure spend to reach $3,47bn
IT infrastructure spending, comprising storage, server and enterprise networking equipment, in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) is forecast to reach $3,47-billion, a 4,1% increase from 2013, according to Gartner. “CIOs in the Gulf are beginning to prepare their...
How to retain top talent
One of the most urgent issues for organisations in 2014 will be how leaders can effectively target, nurture and advance top talent in their organisations – and there is a new emphasis on the demand for the right kind of talent. In a recent article by Sylvia Ann...
SA must work to retain retail leadership
Rwanda, Nigeria, Namibia, Tanzania and Gabon occupy the top five places of the inaugural AT Kearney African Retail Development Index (ARDI). South Africa ranks seventh due to the developed nature of its retail market. The new study by AT Kearney is designed to help...
Uphill battle for chief customer officers
At least 47% of chief customer officers (CCOs), identified by Forrester in its eighth annual CCO evaluation, work at firms with $1-billion or more in annual revenue. In addition, 31% of these large firms are S&P 500 companies, which means that more than 6% of...
Net1, Supa Pesa partner in Malawi
South Africa-based Net1 Mobile Solutions, a business unit of Net 1 UEPS Technologies, together with partner Supa Pesa has expanded its Advance Airtime African footprint with the launch of TeleKom Networks Malawi (TNM) Airtime Credit service, Pasavute. Pasavute, which...
NSA surveillance hype must not be ignored
Last year, when Edward Snowden dropped the revelation that the United States National Security Agency was peering into the private data of individuals and companies, the world sat up and took notice. All the hype that security companies had been generating over the...
Rectron wins at D-Link awards
At a recent awards ceremony in Rome, Italy, D-Link, a global leader in design, manufacture and marketing of advanced networking, broadband, digital, voice and data communications acknowledged its channel partners in the annual Distributor Excellence Awards. A major...
Cloudgate ends 40-year reign of desktop PC
Desktop computers have become a drain on the IT resources of organisations. “An IT department has a primary function: to deliver applications to end-users. Everything else - security, uptime, backups, support and maintenance - are important, but secondary to the...