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Understanding the costs of ERP
Like all essential solutions, enterprise resource planning (ERP) comes with an associated ongoing cost of ownership. But careful planning and new delivery models make ERP total cost of ownership (TCO) manageable, says HansaWorld. Taryn Cromie, sales manager at...
Kyocera releases TASKalfa colour MFP
Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa has announced the release of the TASKalfa 265ci A4 colour multi-function printer (MFP), the perfect productivity tool for small and medium sized work groups needing professional quality colour and black and white documents. With...
Role of the DBA in compliance
On the top of every CIO’s agenda these days is how to avoid falling foul of regulatory compliance and corporate governance. Laws and requirements are evolving, and changing the way businesses gather, store and manage their data. Jaroslav Cerny, CEO of RDB Consulting,...
88mph opens programme applications
88mph, accelerator and investment fund, has opened applications for its second Cape Town programme, and has brought in new talent to head up the programme. During the three-month accelerator programme, which begins in February, 2014, start-ups will receive mentoring,...
Neotel reports profit for the first time
Neotel has announced that the business grew 21% year-on-year and turned PBT (profitable before tax) positive for the first time since its inception seven years ago. The company achieved a positive PBT ahead of its plans. The company also announced a 21% increase in...
Facebook is failing marketers
Seventy-nine percent of companies market on Facebook - betting billions on Facebook's potential and buying into its promise to revolutionise marketing. But they could be wasting their money. In a new Forrester report, vice-president and principal analyst Nate Elliott...
6,8bn mobile devices by year-end
More than 3,4-billion people - nearly half the world's population - own at least one mobile phone in 2013. As of 2010, more than 90% of people worldwide were covered by a mobile phone signal, according to a new Vital Signs Online trend released by the Worldwatch...
Companies still resist big data benefits
While more than 75% of the highest performing organisations cite growth or innovation as the chief value of business analytics, almost two-thirds of them say some form of political or executive resistance is the primary barrier to realising the full value of their...
MWeb to supply Cell C mobile data
MWeb has signed an access point name (APN) agreement with Cell C, which will enable the ISP to offer its own customised mobile data packages to MWeb customers as of yesterday (29 October 2013). MWeb ISP CEO Derek Hershaw says: “We are continuing to see positive growth...
Spinlet urges SA musicians to sign up
Spinlet is encouraging South African musicians to showcase their talents on the new platform. The Spinlet platform aims to make music mobile, accessible and affordable – plus musicians will have the opportunity to earn money. The new platform will launch in South...
SA technology enables realtime management
By no means do managers have an easy task ahead of them. The challenges they face when it comes to inspiring a workforce are immense, from employing and keeping their staff motivated, to keeping up with technology which changes at a rapid rate while using admin...
Veeam announces record Q3 2013 results
Veeam Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualisation management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, has announced record results for the third quarter of 2013 (Q3 13), continuing its expansion in all major global markets as the...
Taylor Wimpey rolls out QlikView solution
QlikView has announced that one of the largest homebuilders in the UK, Taylor Wimpey, has selected the QlikView Business Discovery platform for sales, land, commercial, and financial performance analysis. Formed by the merger of George Wimpey and Taylor Woodrow,...
Understanding the costs of ERP
Like all essential solutions, enterprise resource planning (ERP) comes with an associated ongoing cost of ownership. But careful planning and new delivery models make ERP total cost of ownership (TCO) manageable, says HansaWorld. Taryn Cromie, sales manager at...
Kyocera releases TASKalfa colour MFP
Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa has announced the release of the TASKalfa 265ci A4 colour multi-function printer (MFP), the perfect productivity tool for small and medium sized work groups needing professional quality colour and black and white documents. With...
Role of the DBA in compliance
On the top of every CIO’s agenda these days is how to avoid falling foul of regulatory compliance and corporate governance. Laws and requirements are evolving, and changing the way businesses gather, store and manage their data. Jaroslav Cerny, CEO of RDB Consulting,...
88mph opens programme applications
88mph, accelerator and investment fund, has opened applications for its second Cape Town programme, and has brought in new talent to head up the programme. During the three-month accelerator programme, which begins in February, 2014, start-ups will receive mentoring,...
Neotel reports profit for the first time
Neotel has announced that the business grew 21% year-on-year and turned PBT (profitable before tax) positive for the first time since its inception seven years ago. The company achieved a positive PBT ahead of its plans. The company also announced a 21% increase in...
Facebook is failing marketers
Seventy-nine percent of companies market on Facebook - betting billions on Facebook's potential and buying into its promise to revolutionise marketing. But they could be wasting their money. In a new Forrester report, vice-president and principal analyst Nate Elliott...
6,8bn mobile devices by year-end
More than 3,4-billion people - nearly half the world's population - own at least one mobile phone in 2013. As of 2010, more than 90% of people worldwide were covered by a mobile phone signal, according to a new Vital Signs Online trend released by the Worldwatch...