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Six HR functions to retrain staff
New trends in technology are making it possible for organisations to engage with their employees on a deeper level, making the employees more likely to stick around and contribute to sustainable business performance. Automated talent management is being enabled by new...
Data must drive self-service strategies
Companies that want to drive the best possible results from electronic self-service channels such as the Web, mobile apps and kiosks should invest in the right tools to capture and analyse data about how customers are using these channels in real-life. So says Kevin...
Hammerer Aluminium extends SAP investment
QlikView, a leader in business discovery – user-driven business intelligence (BI) - has announced that the Hammerer Aluminium Industries GmbH (HAI), one of the leading European manufacturers of high-quality aluminum profiles, is using QlikView enterprise-wide to help...
Toshiba launches incentive programme
Toshiba Gulf FZE-SA has launched the Toshiba Rewards programme – an incentive programme for Toshiba resellers that will see them earning cash rewards for selling selected Toshiba notebook models. “We have launched this programme as a token of our appreciation and...
Risk appetite – inputs and outcomes
Part two in a three part series by Dr David Hillson and Ian Huntly, CEO of Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings. We have seen that risk appetite is an internal tendency within an individual or a group and that it cannot be seen or measured directly. It represents a hunger...
MS buys Nokia’s devices, staff
Microsoft is to buy most of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, license Nokia’s patents, and license and use Nokia’s mapping services. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will pay EUR 3,79-billion to purchase substantially all of Nokia’s Devices &...
SA must set broadband policy
By Kathy Gibson, Satnac 2013, Stellenbosch - There have been too many delays in setting South Africa’s broadband policy, and it’s time to move forward. This is the word from Yunus Carrim, minister of communications, speaking at the Satnac 2013 conference in...
The way forward for South Africa
By Kathy Gibson, Satnac 2013, Stellenbosch - The probability of South Africa becoming a failed state has increased, although there is still a good possibility that it could remain as one of the world’s top economies. The game of IT is where warning flags are going up...
Broadband could be SA’s saviour
By Kathy Gibson, Satnac 2013, Stellenbosch - Connectivity has a massive role to play in education in sub-Saharan Africa. Broadband could have a positive economic impact on the region, and its lack could doom us to miss out on the digital revolution. Brian O’Connel,...
Mobile phones drive data usage
Stockholm, Sweden - Consumers in sub-Saharan Africa are overwhelmingly mobile phone users – and they are using their devices for more data services than ever before. This is the word from Shiletsi Makhofane, head of marketing and strategy at Ericsson Sub-Saharan...
Ricoh SA generates business at Africa Print
Ricoh SA’s support for Africa Print Expo 2013 continued this year at the Sandton Convention Centre with the result that the business generated close to 200 leads and confirmed two device sales. One of the machines sold to a print service provider in Gauteng was the...
Dell Networking expands portfolio with S6000
Dell Networking has expanded its S-series portfolio with the new S6000, the industry’s highest-density 1RU 10/40GbE switching platform for highly-virtualised data centres. A fixed form factor design, the S6000 doubles the density and throughput while consuming up to...
Do African women have more to prove?
The ranks of software programmers and IT project managers, business analysts, and consultants include very few women. But is this because of either active or subconscious discrimination against women? And what is the role of African men in preventing their daughters...
Six HR functions to retrain staff
New trends in technology are making it possible for organisations to engage with their employees on a deeper level, making the employees more likely to stick around and contribute to sustainable business performance. Automated talent management is being enabled by new...
Data must drive self-service strategies
Companies that want to drive the best possible results from electronic self-service channels such as the Web, mobile apps and kiosks should invest in the right tools to capture and analyse data about how customers are using these channels in real-life. So says Kevin...
Hammerer Aluminium extends SAP investment
QlikView, a leader in business discovery – user-driven business intelligence (BI) - has announced that the Hammerer Aluminium Industries GmbH (HAI), one of the leading European manufacturers of high-quality aluminum profiles, is using QlikView enterprise-wide to help...
Toshiba launches incentive programme
Toshiba Gulf FZE-SA has launched the Toshiba Rewards programme – an incentive programme for Toshiba resellers that will see them earning cash rewards for selling selected Toshiba notebook models. “We have launched this programme as a token of our appreciation and...
Risk appetite – inputs and outcomes
Part two in a three part series by Dr David Hillson and Ian Huntly, CEO of Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings. We have seen that risk appetite is an internal tendency within an individual or a group and that it cannot be seen or measured directly. It represents a hunger...
MS buys Nokia’s devices, staff
Microsoft is to buy most of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, license Nokia’s patents, and license and use Nokia’s mapping services. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will pay EUR 3,79-billion to purchase substantially all of Nokia’s Devices &...
SA must set broadband policy
By Kathy Gibson, Satnac 2013, Stellenbosch - There have been too many delays in setting South Africa’s broadband policy, and it’s time to move forward. This is the word from Yunus Carrim, minister of communications, speaking at the Satnac 2013 conference in...