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Mining house rolls out IBM Cognos solution
One of the world’s largest mining houses and producers of major commodities faced a number of challenges with its Budgeting, Forecasting and Reporting (BFR) processes. These processes are complex and subject to a number of obstacles such as volatility regarding the...
Windows apps help keep resolutions
Getting fit: * Active Fitness - getting fit is among the top resolutions each year, and sticking to a training regime can be difficult. Active Fitness enables users to track activity, follow progress on maps and set out a comprehensive training plan. * Adidas miCoach...
AWM360, Logitime announce partnership
AWM360 Data Systems, an established business technology partner and solution provider within the southern African human capital management (HCM) and workforce management solutions markets, has reinforced its ability to address the ICT and technical requirements of the...
Q-KON SA adds AudioCodes to portfolio
Q-KON SA has added the AudioCodes brand to its portfolio of solutions to distribute. AudioCodes is a global market leader, with over 17 years of product development experience, focussed on VoIP network products and technology and is quite well known to the South...
Effective PM requires diplomacy, discipline
When it comes to the implementation of hardware and software in business, it is important to secure harmonious interaction between supplier and purchaser to ensure successful project rollout. “Effective system integration requires that both parties involved, the...
ATIO awarded Level 2 BBBEE status
Specialist ICT services company, ATIO, has been awarded Level 2 B-BBEE Status and has been recognised as a value-adding supplier (VAS) by the BEE Verification Agency, Mazars. Being a black-owned company contributed to ATIO’s improved status level, which now entitles...
Razer wins at CES
Razer, the world leader in entertainment devices and software, took top honours at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for the third consecutive year with its modular PC concept Project Christine and the wearable Razer Nabu smartband. Project Christine...
Hubble spies ancient galaxies
A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image of massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (pictured here) is the deepest ever made of any cluster of galaxies. It shows some of the faintest and youngest galaxies ever detected in space. The immense gravity in Abell 2744 is...
HP loses top spot as PC shipments dive
Worldwide PC shipments totalled 82,6-million units in the fourth quarter of 2013, a 6,9% decline from the fourth quarter of 2012, according to preliminary results by Gartner. This is the seventh consecutive quarter of shipment decline. "Although PC shipments continued...
Modest 2014 growth for global economy
After wallowing in an economic “soft patch” for the past two years, the global economy is likely to emerge in 2014 with modest growth of 3,3% compared with 2,5% last year, according to a forecast from Nariman Behravesh, chief economist of HIS. “The easing of the twin...
Altech exits East Africa telecoms market
Allied Technologies (Altech) has exercised its option to dispose of its interests in Liquid Telecommunications. Effective 28 February 2013, Altech concluded an agreement with Liquid, in terms of which Altech acquired 8,6% of Liquid’s issued share capital in exchange...
Watson offers cloud-based big data analytics
IBM has unveiled three new Watson services delivered via the cloud. The first, Watson Discovery Advisor, is designed to accelerate and strengthen research and development projects in industries such as pharmaceutical, publishing and biotechnology. The second, Watson...
Africa looks good to manufacturers
The amount of investment flowing into African countries, and the number of global brands investing in Africa, has risen sharply in recent years, according to the latest analysis from IDC Manufacturing Insights. For many low-cost manufacturers, the future lies in...
Mining house rolls out IBM Cognos solution
One of the world’s largest mining houses and producers of major commodities faced a number of challenges with its Budgeting, Forecasting and Reporting (BFR) processes. These processes are complex and subject to a number of obstacles such as volatility regarding the...
Windows apps help keep resolutions
Getting fit: * Active Fitness - getting fit is among the top resolutions each year, and sticking to a training regime can be difficult. Active Fitness enables users to track activity, follow progress on maps and set out a comprehensive training plan. * Adidas miCoach...
AWM360, Logitime announce partnership
AWM360 Data Systems, an established business technology partner and solution provider within the southern African human capital management (HCM) and workforce management solutions markets, has reinforced its ability to address the ICT and technical requirements of the...
Q-KON SA adds AudioCodes to portfolio
Q-KON SA has added the AudioCodes brand to its portfolio of solutions to distribute. AudioCodes is a global market leader, with over 17 years of product development experience, focussed on VoIP network products and technology and is quite well known to the South...
Effective PM requires diplomacy, discipline
When it comes to the implementation of hardware and software in business, it is important to secure harmonious interaction between supplier and purchaser to ensure successful project rollout. “Effective system integration requires that both parties involved, the...
ATIO awarded Level 2 BBBEE status
Specialist ICT services company, ATIO, has been awarded Level 2 B-BBEE Status and has been recognised as a value-adding supplier (VAS) by the BEE Verification Agency, Mazars. Being a black-owned company contributed to ATIO’s improved status level, which now entitles...
Razer wins at CES
Razer, the world leader in entertainment devices and software, took top honours at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for the third consecutive year with its modular PC concept Project Christine and the wearable Razer Nabu smartband. Project Christine...