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Managing absenteeism benefits organisations
According to information supplied by Occupational Care South Africa (OCSA), employee absenteeism costs the South African economy between R12-billion and R16-billion per annum. “Absenteeism in the workplace needs to be addressed holistically and organisations need to...
WiFi plays a role in effective UC
While many organisations have made the move to the cloud and virtualised applications and servers in their data centres, they have been slow to virtualise unified communications (UC) applications says Ruckus Wireless. However, with the technological advancements made,...
NetApp honours EMEA Partners with awards
NetApp hosted its seventh annual NetApp EMEA Partner and Pathways Summit in Venice this year from 17 to 19 June, an exclusive partner event for top executives from NetApp’s most important channel partners around EMEA. The two-day programme has been designed to...
Number portality in Nigeria from iconectiv
iconectiv, a leader in trusted, neutral, third party national scope clearinghouse solutions, announced that Nigeria, Africa's largest country with approximately 120-million mobile subscriptions, has officially launched number portability, making iconectiv the supplier...
New MD for Stanchion
Stanchion Payment Solutions has appointed Deon van Biljon as its new managing director with effect from 17 June as the organisation positions itself for renewed growth in the payment services market. Current MD Graham Williams will turn his focus to building the...
How to measure the success of ESN
The enthusiastic uptake and popularity of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter – which now reportedly accounts for 20% of all online activity – has convinced many companies to try and replicate that same level of success and reach with enterprise social...
Infor reports Q4 double digit growth
May marked the end of an exciting fiscal year for Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70 000 customers. Based on preliminary financial results, Infor expects its fiscal 2013 Q4 software license fees and subscription revenues to...
Best Western International uses JDA Software
In order to enhance business intelligence and capabilities to drive higher revenue across all channels and segments, Best Western International has selected JDA Software Group, the supply chain company, as its strategic partner to embark upon a comprehensive price...
Managing mobile security in South Africa
From smartphones to tablets, mobile devices continue to cause ongoing concern for IT teams responsible for information security. Sensitive corporate information can be easily transported, leaked, or lost while the BYOD movement has dramatically increased the number of...
Toshiba launches STOR.E CANVIO
Toshiba Gulf FZE has introduced the STOR.E CANVIO, its first portable external hard disk drive (HDD) to offer both up to 2Tb of storage capacity and 10Gb of free subscription to Pogoplug PC cloud storage, enabling users to access their files on the HDD using mobile...
E-commerce sites are worst performers
E-commerce sites are some of the worst performing as a category, even though availability and performance directly impact their bottom line. This is according to the annual State of Web Readiness report by Load Impact, the cloud-based, on-demand load testing tool. ...
Nokia takeover rumours still abuzz
The industry is abuzz with rumours of a pending takeover of Finnish mobile phone-maker Nokia. The lead runner in a takeover bid was thought to be Microsoft, but apparently talks between the two have faltered. Other companies mentioned in connection with the takeover...
Big data comes to BI: can it cope?
Because of the way they are deployed, less than 10% of employees regularly use business intelligence (BI) tools. Forrester Research puts the fraction at between 5% and 9%. And of that user base, anecdotes abound of daily reports taking several days just to look...
Managing absenteeism benefits organisations
According to information supplied by Occupational Care South Africa (OCSA), employee absenteeism costs the South African economy between R12-billion and R16-billion per annum. “Absenteeism in the workplace needs to be addressed holistically and organisations need to...
WiFi plays a role in effective UC
While many organisations have made the move to the cloud and virtualised applications and servers in their data centres, they have been slow to virtualise unified communications (UC) applications says Ruckus Wireless. However, with the technological advancements made,...
NetApp honours EMEA Partners with awards
NetApp hosted its seventh annual NetApp EMEA Partner and Pathways Summit in Venice this year from 17 to 19 June, an exclusive partner event for top executives from NetApp’s most important channel partners around EMEA. The two-day programme has been designed to...
Number portality in Nigeria from iconectiv
iconectiv, a leader in trusted, neutral, third party national scope clearinghouse solutions, announced that Nigeria, Africa's largest country with approximately 120-million mobile subscriptions, has officially launched number portability, making iconectiv the supplier...
New MD for Stanchion
Stanchion Payment Solutions has appointed Deon van Biljon as its new managing director with effect from 17 June as the organisation positions itself for renewed growth in the payment services market. Current MD Graham Williams will turn his focus to building the...
How to measure the success of ESN
The enthusiastic uptake and popularity of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter – which now reportedly accounts for 20% of all online activity – has convinced many companies to try and replicate that same level of success and reach with enterprise social...
Infor reports Q4 double digit growth
May marked the end of an exciting fiscal year for Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70 000 customers. Based on preliminary financial results, Infor expects its fiscal 2013 Q4 software license fees and subscription revenues to...