Technology News
Financial services set to spend $430bn on IT
IDC Financial Insights forecasts worldwide financial services IT spending will top $430-billion in 2014. According to new Worldwide IT Spending Guides: * Banks will account for half of the worldwide total in 2014 with IT spending forecast to be $215-billion; *...
Kunene takes on MasterCard SA
MasterCard has announced the appointment of Ike Kunene as vice-president of government solutions and services, and enterprise development in South Africa. The appointment is in line with MasterCard’s ongoing commitment to strengthen its relationships with government...
HDS launches social collaboration platform
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, announced the launch of the Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Community, an online social platform powered by Jive Software. The HDS Community enables customers, prospects, partners and employees to openly collaborate to innovate with HDS...
FID issues call for board members
The Foundation for Internet Development (FID) is inviting applications from suitably qualified potential non-executive board members who can help take its entrepreneur development mandate to the next level. FID is looking to eventually recruit five non-executive board...
Technology investment key to e-tail success
The constant evolution of online retail – from multi-channel to omni-channel and beyond – means retailers have business-critical decisions to make on a day-to-day basis. Certainly, the opportunity for success and growth can’t be denied, says Christo Briedenhann,...
Kathea brings Zoom to local market
Kathea, a local distributor of visual communications and unified communication (UC) solutions, has partnered with London-based Disruptive Vision to bring the innovative Zoom video streaming solution to the local market. Zoom is a standards-based, software only,...
BICS boosts big data power with QlikView
QlikView has announced that BICS (Belgacom International Carrier Services) is using QlikView with Teradata to analyse more than a terabyte of data each day providing customers with full visibility into their user roaming traffic across 2G/3G/4G networks. As a...
Infor unveils new Rhythm platform
Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70 000 customers, has announced Infor Rhythm, a cloud-based e-commerce platform. Infor Rhythm is built on a complete and proven e-commerce platform and now complemented with beautiful designs...
The cloud is here to stay
Today’s extremely competitive business landscape sees enterprises, both big and small, desperately seeking opportunities to cut costs, improve productivities and gain competitive advantage. Many are looking to IT as a way to realise these goals, and in particular,...
DVT, FICO bring Blaze Advisor to SA
Specialist software and services company DVT and leading analytics software company FICO have announced a strategic partnership that will see DVT market, implement and support FICO’s business rules management system Blaze Advisor in South Africa. The partnership comes...
MEA enterprise hardware stuck in a rut
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) enterprise hardware market, comprising servers and external storage, continues to stagnate, with year-on-year growth of just 2,8% recorded for Q2 2013, according to the latest insights from International Data Corporation (IDC)....
One-third of WiFi users are unprotected
Spending time online using a WiFi hotspot is almost second nature now. However, hooking up to the network can carry hidden risks. Despite this, more than a third of users take no additional precautions when logging on to public WiFi, according to the Kaspersky...
Intel Capital invests in 16 new companies
Intel Capital has announced investments in 16 new technology companies, totalling $65-million. Spanning nine countries, the investments will help drive innovations in the cloud, data centre, mobile technologies and consumer-related services. Announced at the 14th...
Financial services set to spend $430bn on IT
IDC Financial Insights forecasts worldwide financial services IT spending will top $430-billion in 2014. According to new Worldwide IT Spending Guides: * Banks will account for half of the worldwide total in 2014 with IT spending forecast to be $215-billion; *...
Kunene takes on MasterCard SA
MasterCard has announced the appointment of Ike Kunene as vice-president of government solutions and services, and enterprise development in South Africa. The appointment is in line with MasterCard’s ongoing commitment to strengthen its relationships with government...
HDS launches social collaboration platform
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, announced the launch of the Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Community, an online social platform powered by Jive Software. The HDS Community enables customers, prospects, partners and employees to openly collaborate to innovate with HDS...
FID issues call for board members
The Foundation for Internet Development (FID) is inviting applications from suitably qualified potential non-executive board members who can help take its entrepreneur development mandate to the next level. FID is looking to eventually recruit five non-executive board...
Technology investment key to e-tail success
The constant evolution of online retail – from multi-channel to omni-channel and beyond – means retailers have business-critical decisions to make on a day-to-day basis. Certainly, the opportunity for success and growth can’t be denied, says Christo Briedenhann,...
Kathea brings Zoom to local market
Kathea, a local distributor of visual communications and unified communication (UC) solutions, has partnered with London-based Disruptive Vision to bring the innovative Zoom video streaming solution to the local market. Zoom is a standards-based, software only,...
BICS boosts big data power with QlikView
QlikView has announced that BICS (Belgacom International Carrier Services) is using QlikView with Teradata to analyse more than a terabyte of data each day providing customers with full visibility into their user roaming traffic across 2G/3G/4G networks. As a...