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CIOs not ready for digitalisation
Digitalisation, the third era of enterprise IT, is beginning - but most CIOs do not feel prepared to cope with it. A global survey of CIOs by Gartner's Executive Programmes showed that many CIOs feel overwhelmed by the prospect of building digital leadership while...
Enterprise wearables will be common by 2020
While wearables may still be in nascent stages, the enterprise movement will unfold over the next decade - and by 2020, we can expect to see a shift toward business centrality. This is according to a new report from Forrester examining the evolution of the enterprise...
Telco services to transform in 2014
International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that changing customer preferences, the growing usage of applications, rising smart device penetration, and the increasing prominence of over the top (OTT) services will continue to transform services and business models...
Augmented reality becomes a business tool
Although the adoption of augmented reality (AR) in the enterprise is still in its infancy, AR technology has matured to a point where organisations can use it as an internal tool to complement and enhance business processes, workflows and employee training, according...
China’s mobile enterprise market to boom
Mobile applications are taking off in Chinese companies, and could reach $4,67-billion by 2017. According to IDC's report China Enterprise Mobility Solution Analysis by Key Verticals, along with the popularization of smartphones and driven by consumer mobile...
Skills crunch for mobile app development
Locally developed smartphone applications will continue to impress with innovations, despite the mobile development market becoming even more fragmented in 2014. According to Johan Pieters, business unit manager for enterprise mobile solutions at DVT, while smartphone...
See no evil: companies ignore kiddie porn
While organisations grapple with a range of threats daily – from compliance and legislation to IT security and operation challenges – many of them ignore the problem of child sexual abuse, despite the fact that it is rapidly becoming a real issue within the corporate...
Telkom CFO in disciplinary hearing today
Telkom has confirmed to its stakeholders that the confidential disciplinary hearing involving Telkom’s CFO, Jacques Schindehütte, on a matter of personal misconduct is scheduled to commence in Johannesburg today (16 January 2014). This disciplinary hearing is the...
Switching to VoIP is easy and affordable
Many businesses are missing out on the many advantages of VoIP (Voice over IP) telephony because they believe the cost of having to “scrap” their entire analogue system and start from scratch, is too high. However, says Hennie van Tonder, head of products at MWeb...
DataTegra wins Kaspersky partner award
Specialist IT security solutions and service provider DataTegra has received the inaugural African Enterprise Partner of the Year award from Kaspersky Lab. The Enterprise Partner of the Year award, based on the total value of sales and new business brought in, is the...
The value of mentorship in SA
The value of having access to someone to discuss issues with, to lean on for moral support or for well-timed advice based on their proven track record (particularly in business) cannot be overemphasised. Experts in the wellness industry believe that the role that this...
Fortinet announces award winners
Fortinet has announced the winners of its annual channel awards. The ceremony took place during Fortinet’s largest Global Partner Conference to date, on a cruise in the Caribbean from 9 to 13 January. At the event, Fortinet recognised the outstanding achievements...
Telesure ventures into card payments market
In a South African first, the Telesure Group has launched a new financial services business. Dashpay is a card payment solution, certified by MasterCard and Visa, that delivers affordable and bank-agnostic payment solutions to the SME retail sector. Anton de Souza,...
CIOs not ready for digitalisation
Digitalisation, the third era of enterprise IT, is beginning - but most CIOs do not feel prepared to cope with it. A global survey of CIOs by Gartner's Executive Programmes showed that many CIOs feel overwhelmed by the prospect of building digital leadership while...
Enterprise wearables will be common by 2020
While wearables may still be in nascent stages, the enterprise movement will unfold over the next decade - and by 2020, we can expect to see a shift toward business centrality. This is according to a new report from Forrester examining the evolution of the enterprise...
Telco services to transform in 2014
International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that changing customer preferences, the growing usage of applications, rising smart device penetration, and the increasing prominence of over the top (OTT) services will continue to transform services and business models...
Augmented reality becomes a business tool
Although the adoption of augmented reality (AR) in the enterprise is still in its infancy, AR technology has matured to a point where organisations can use it as an internal tool to complement and enhance business processes, workflows and employee training, according...
China’s mobile enterprise market to boom
Mobile applications are taking off in Chinese companies, and could reach $4,67-billion by 2017. According to IDC's report China Enterprise Mobility Solution Analysis by Key Verticals, along with the popularization of smartphones and driven by consumer mobile...
Skills crunch for mobile app development
Locally developed smartphone applications will continue to impress with innovations, despite the mobile development market becoming even more fragmented in 2014. According to Johan Pieters, business unit manager for enterprise mobile solutions at DVT, while smartphone...
See no evil: companies ignore kiddie porn
While organisations grapple with a range of threats daily – from compliance and legislation to IT security and operation challenges – many of them ignore the problem of child sexual abuse, despite the fact that it is rapidly becoming a real issue within the corporate...