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Cyberoam opens new office in SA
Network security company Cyberoam has opened a new office in South Africa, as part of a plan to quickly capture market transitions and deliver innovative solutions in the market. The new office is located in Fourways Johannesburg. South Africa is one of the regions of...
Compu-Clearing raises profits in flat year
Compu-Clearing, which provides IT services and products to the customs clearing and freight forwarding industries, has reported a 6% increase in profit for the latest financial year. The Ggroup’s core revenue is transaction-based and directly linked to customer import...
New business: getting it right
SA IT consultancy Cybervine is making significant inroads into the local market on the back of serial start-up experience and a whole new approach to doing IT business – turning it down occasionally. Starting a business in South Africa is fraught with challenges and...
African name-matching solution from Bytes
Bytes Universal Systems, a Bytes Technology Group company, has launched |Guiro, its patented software solution that enables intelligent name-matching for African names. |Guiro aims to help companies manage their customer data more effectively. “One of the great...
The benefits of analytics in healthcare
In any industry, the organisations that can adapt quickly and intelligently to changing market forces will succeed in the long term. In the health industry in particular, organisations need to contain costs and respond quickly to changes globally and locally. There...
NetApp enhances partner programme
Changing market dynamics, growing demand for new technologies such as cloud or flash, and new buying patterns require a flexible approach to selling IT solutions. More than ever partners are forced to adapt their business models and diversify their capabilities to...
EnviroServ implements PPO
EnviroServ’s Mineral Beneficiation (EMB) department has implemented Project Portfolio Office (PPO), an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, in a bid to control project budgets and scheduling. EnviroServ has been providing...
Pillars of PCI compliance
The Payments Association of South Africa (PASA) has mandated that merchants of all sizes that process, store or transmit credit card information must comply with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) security compliance by the end of 2013. Consequently, retailers have to...
CRS iSight keeps HR standards in focus
In light of the introduction of the first-of-its-kind formal HR standards in South Africa, devised by industry and the SA Board for People Practices (SABPP), CRS Technologies, a leading local provider of HR & payroll services and solutions, has launched its iSight...
PV systems need lightning, surge protection
In recent years, photovoltaic (PV) systems have become a significant sector within the energy market, with the International Energy Agency in 2011 saying that "the development of affordable, inexhaustible and clean solar energy technologies will have huge longer-term...
EMC, NetApp lead storage market
Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted a year-over-year decline of -0,8%, totaling just over $5,9-billion, in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems...
SAP targets SMEs with in-memory computing
SAP Africa has unveiled an update to its business management software suite offering aimed directly at Africa’s small to medium enterprise (SME) sector – and it says the new solution will bring big-business functionality to local SMEs at small company prices. The...
Blue Label, Telkom case goes to court
Arbitration proceedings between Blue Label subsidiary Africa Prepaid Services Nigeria (APSN) and Telkom SA subsidiary Multi-Links Telecommunications have been abandoned after a high court order set the proceedings aside. This paves the way for a case to be brought...
Cyberoam opens new office in SA
Network security company Cyberoam has opened a new office in South Africa, as part of a plan to quickly capture market transitions and deliver innovative solutions in the market. The new office is located in Fourways Johannesburg. South Africa is one of the regions of...
Compu-Clearing raises profits in flat year
Compu-Clearing, which provides IT services and products to the customs clearing and freight forwarding industries, has reported a 6% increase in profit for the latest financial year. The Ggroup’s core revenue is transaction-based and directly linked to customer import...
New business: getting it right
SA IT consultancy Cybervine is making significant inroads into the local market on the back of serial start-up experience and a whole new approach to doing IT business – turning it down occasionally. Starting a business in South Africa is fraught with challenges and...
African name-matching solution from Bytes
Bytes Universal Systems, a Bytes Technology Group company, has launched |Guiro, its patented software solution that enables intelligent name-matching for African names. |Guiro aims to help companies manage their customer data more effectively. “One of the great...
The benefits of analytics in healthcare
In any industry, the organisations that can adapt quickly and intelligently to changing market forces will succeed in the long term. In the health industry in particular, organisations need to contain costs and respond quickly to changes globally and locally. There...
NetApp enhances partner programme
Changing market dynamics, growing demand for new technologies such as cloud or flash, and new buying patterns require a flexible approach to selling IT solutions. More than ever partners are forced to adapt their business models and diversify their capabilities to...
EnviroServ implements PPO
EnviroServ’s Mineral Beneficiation (EMB) department has implemented Project Portfolio Office (PPO), an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, in a bid to control project budgets and scheduling. EnviroServ has been providing...