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The strategic value of talent management
Talent management adds strategic value to a business and if implemented correctly will help a company to achieve its business goals. In a nutshell it is all about placing the "right people in the right role" for current and future business plans, says Anja Hartman, HR...
Samsung launches Evolution Kit in SA
Samsung Electronics South Africa has officially launched to the local market its innovative Evolution Kit. The Evolution Kit, which had been introduced for the first time at CES 2012, and more recently at the Samsung Africa Forum 2013, is an innovative concept that...
Transcom uses Aspect solution
Inclusion of the Aspect Workforce Management solution has allowed the company to solve the manual workload of its planning teams and improve their performance. Aspect Software, a leading provider of fully-integrated customer interaction management, workforce...
Software AG buys Apama
Software AG has announced that it has executed an agreement with Progress Software to acquire Apama, the market leading platform for complex event processing (CEP) and CEP-powered solutions. Apama CEP allows organisations to correlate and analyse business activities...
Mobile devices to outnumber humans
No technology has spread as rapidly – to become utterly ubiquitous – as the cell phone. It took television 30 years to penetrate 70% of households, but the cell phone achieved this level in less than a decade. On top of this, very soon there will be more mobile...
Cloud migration still to happen
Claims that most organisations have moved, or are moving, to cloud e-mail or cloud office systems are not consistent with research by Gartner. Gartner estimates that there are currently about 50-million enterprise users of cloud office systems, which represent only 8%...
More South Africans saving for the future
About 70% of South Africans are planning to save either “the same or more” over the coming six months - a decrease from the 92% who say the same thing in the previous survey. According to the latest MasterCard survey of Consumer Purchasing Priorities: Money...
Improved networks drive consumer loyalty
Improved network performance is vital to ensure subscriber loyalty among smartphone users, and will provide operators with a significant competitive advantage. These are some of the finding from a new report from Ericsson ConsumerLab, which also shows that current...
Telkom Kenya signs towers to Eaton
Telkom Kenya, which operates Orange's mobile and fixed-line telecommunications service in Kenya, has signed an agreement with Eaton Towers for the management of its passive network infrastructure. The 15-year tower management and leasing deal is focussed on both the...
Marketers are missing digital opportunity
Marketers are missing a powerful opportunity to engage with consumers and deliver personalised experiences that drive brand affinity, according to research from Adobe Systems. The State of Online Advertising study polled both consumers and marketers in seven countries...
Mitel expands collaboration, voice solutions
Mitel, a leading provider of cloud and premises based unified communications (UC) software solutions, has announced two new product offerings: MiVoice for Lync and MiCollab 5.0 (formerly Mitel Application Suite or MAS). Building on its open Freedom Architecture, Mitel...
Mitel introduces new product offering
Mitel, a leading provider of cloud and premises based unified communications software solutions, has introduced a new product naming architecture based on the straight forward language customers use to identify and discuss solutions. The new architecture takes a...
HP enhances Converged Cloud portfolio
HP has now delivered the next phase of a common OpenStack-based architecture for HP’s private, managed and public cloud offerings. In addition, the company announced new software and services to accelerate time to market for private cloud implementations, and unveiled...
The strategic value of talent management
Talent management adds strategic value to a business and if implemented correctly will help a company to achieve its business goals. In a nutshell it is all about placing the "right people in the right role" for current and future business plans, says Anja Hartman, HR...
Samsung launches Evolution Kit in SA
Samsung Electronics South Africa has officially launched to the local market its innovative Evolution Kit. The Evolution Kit, which had been introduced for the first time at CES 2012, and more recently at the Samsung Africa Forum 2013, is an innovative concept that...
Transcom uses Aspect solution
Inclusion of the Aspect Workforce Management solution has allowed the company to solve the manual workload of its planning teams and improve their performance. Aspect Software, a leading provider of fully-integrated customer interaction management, workforce...
Software AG buys Apama
Software AG has announced that it has executed an agreement with Progress Software to acquire Apama, the market leading platform for complex event processing (CEP) and CEP-powered solutions. Apama CEP allows organisations to correlate and analyse business activities...
Mobile devices to outnumber humans
No technology has spread as rapidly – to become utterly ubiquitous – as the cell phone. It took television 30 years to penetrate 70% of households, but the cell phone achieved this level in less than a decade. On top of this, very soon there will be more mobile...
Cloud migration still to happen
Claims that most organisations have moved, or are moving, to cloud e-mail or cloud office systems are not consistent with research by Gartner. Gartner estimates that there are currently about 50-million enterprise users of cloud office systems, which represent only 8%...
More South Africans saving for the future
About 70% of South Africans are planning to save either “the same or more” over the coming six months - a decrease from the 92% who say the same thing in the previous survey. According to the latest MasterCard survey of Consumer Purchasing Priorities: Money...