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Absa launches multi-currency card
Absa Bank has launched a multi-currency cash passport, which it believes to be South Africa’s first reloadable prepaid multi-currency travel card. The card allows cardholders to load multiple currencies on the same card with global reach of MasterCard, which is...
Itec Innovate wins Dealer of the Year award
Office automation and communications group Itec has awarded its Dealer of the Year accolade for the sub-Saharan Africa region to Cape Town-based Itec Innovate. The award places Itec Innovate at the forefront of 47 highly competitive dealers that vied for top spot. The...
Xtranet launches Cloud Solutions
Xtranet is excited to announce the launch of Xtranet Cloud Solutions. “Cloud computing provides computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the...
Samsung launches new A3 copiers
Samsung Electronics South Africa has launched its groundbreaking CLX-9201, 9251, and 9301 A3 colour and SCX-8123, CX-8128 A3 mono copiers that separate the printer interface from the system unit to enhance the efficiency of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). “These...
Data is everywhere except where it should be
Data is everywhere; everywhere except where it should be. Moreover, with the rapid growth of data volumes across a myriad of sources, including social media, business systems, e-mail and mobile phones, organisations are increasingly losing grip over these primal...
IT changes financial services industry
According to recent research by Deutsche Bank, financial services firms will spend between $270-billion and $460-billion on IT in 2013 globally. The explosion of technology has changed the financial services industry from a paper and branch business to digitised and...
The role of social business intelligence
One of the most important things all organisations need to remember is that a business is only as good as its people. So, how can you make sure you are getting the most out of your people? Well, says Davide Hanan, MD of QlikView SA, it could equally be said that in...
Managed services for endpoint security
Mobility has created a number of challenges for information security, most originating from the reality that sensitive information is accessible from just about anywhere on any number of devices. The traditional castle and moat model, where company data was housed on...
SMEs set to be a big force in SA
With more than 1-million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) driving more than third of the South African GDP, Avaya, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services, is talking directly to these businesses about how to...
Khayelitsha Hospital wins award
The Western Cape’s Khayelitsha Hospital has scooped yet another award – this time garnering the Ministerial Award for National and International Contribution in the Arts and Culture, Language, Heritage, Geographical Names, Museums, Libraries or Archives fields from...
Teen creates Springbok selection site
A rugby-mad 13-year-old girl, with support from her brother, has turned her dream of selecting the ideal Springbok dream team into reality with a new Web site. Rouxve Meyer, a Grade 8 learner from Parel Vallei High School in Somerset West, thought it would be fun to...
Cloud should improve the business
Organisations are looking to the cloud to change not only how they buy and consume IT, but also how the cloud actually impacts the business. In fact, one of the main drivers for organisations deploying cloud applications is to improve operational agility and...
BB10 still strong in enterprise
A number of North American enterprises across a diverse range of sectors, including technology, banking, retail and government, have adopted BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 as part of their mobile strategy. The growing number of organisations...
Absa launches multi-currency card
Absa Bank has launched a multi-currency cash passport, which it believes to be South Africa’s first reloadable prepaid multi-currency travel card. The card allows cardholders to load multiple currencies on the same card with global reach of MasterCard, which is...
Itec Innovate wins Dealer of the Year award
Office automation and communications group Itec has awarded its Dealer of the Year accolade for the sub-Saharan Africa region to Cape Town-based Itec Innovate. The award places Itec Innovate at the forefront of 47 highly competitive dealers that vied for top spot. The...
Xtranet launches Cloud Solutions
Xtranet is excited to announce the launch of Xtranet Cloud Solutions. “Cloud computing provides computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the...
Samsung launches new A3 copiers
Samsung Electronics South Africa has launched its groundbreaking CLX-9201, 9251, and 9301 A3 colour and SCX-8123, CX-8128 A3 mono copiers that separate the printer interface from the system unit to enhance the efficiency of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). “These...
Data is everywhere except where it should be
Data is everywhere; everywhere except where it should be. Moreover, with the rapid growth of data volumes across a myriad of sources, including social media, business systems, e-mail and mobile phones, organisations are increasingly losing grip over these primal...
IT changes financial services industry
According to recent research by Deutsche Bank, financial services firms will spend between $270-billion and $460-billion on IT in 2013 globally. The explosion of technology has changed the financial services industry from a paper and branch business to digitised and...
The role of social business intelligence
One of the most important things all organisations need to remember is that a business is only as good as its people. So, how can you make sure you are getting the most out of your people? Well, says Davide Hanan, MD of QlikView SA, it could equally be said that in...