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Not all BI service providers are equal
Business intelligence (BI) is not just about software – it is a long term strategy best carried out in partnership with experts. Sean Paine, chief operating officer at EnterpriseWorx, explains how to choose the right BI partner. It is a sad fact that every hot new...
Konica Minolta wins Microsoft certification
Bidvest company, Konica Minolta South Africa, has been named as a Microsoft Silver Partner with an Application Development Silver competency, positioning the company within the top 5% of Microsoft partners worldwide. This marks an unusual move for a company within the...
BlackBerry launches Q5 smartphone
BlackBerry has introduced the BlackBerry Q5, a new youthful and fun BlackBerry 10 smartphone for selected markets. The BlackBerry Q5 smartphone features a QWERTY keyboard with discrete keys in a stunning youthful design that is confident, fun and bold. Every feature,...
Logikal enhances Indian office
Booming business in India and across Africa has resulted in an upgrade in Logikal Consulting’s offices on the subcontinent. The company recently upgraded and expanded its offices in Chennai in order to house more staff as well as to bring a fresher, more contemporary...
Yellowfin appoints AIGS as local distributor
Global business intelligence (BI) software vendor, Yellowfin, has announced a distribution agreement with South African enterprise IT applications and services provider, Albi Investment Group Services (AIGS). The agreement will see AIGS offer Yellowfin, and its...
SA entrepreneurs soldier on
Vital for economic growth but facing serious challenges, South African small and micro businesses are displaying unwavering entrepreneurial spirit, according to new research commissioned by Regus. Even though some might have fallen into business ownership through...
Asia Pacific leads in phone sales
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end-users totalled nearly 426-million units in the first quarter of 2013, a slight increase of 0,7% from the same period last year, according to Gartner. Worldwide smartphone sales totalled 210-million units in the first quarter of...
New strategy head for Telkom
Dr Miriam Altman has been appointed as Telkom’s head of strategy, with effect from 1 June 2013. Dr Altman will support the development and execution of Telkom’s strategy and will report directly to group CEO Sipho Maseko. Dr Altman was an executive director at the...
IS expands public cloud offering
Internet Solutions (IS) has announced that its Public Compute as a Service (CaaS) offering can now be purchased on a pay-as-you-go basis using a credit card. The IS Public CaaS platform, available through a Web-based portal, enables developers, independent software...
Forum aims to boost African domains
A platform for the DNS community across Africa to advance the domain name industry and domain name registrations on the continent is the goal of the Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum, to be held from 12 to 13 July 2013 in Durban. The event has been organised by...
Payroll industry to gather for Accsys forum
Key role-players within the South African payroll industry are scheduled to meet at an Interactive Forum at the Woodmead Country Club on 12 June 2013 to discuss pertinent topics affecting payroll within commerce. The Payroll Interactive Forum will be hosted by...
SA retailers must prepare for omni-channel
The growth of retail e-commerce continues unabated with global sales exceeding $1-trillion in 2012. The scale and the pace of change has been disruptive, allowing some early adopters to grow market share in lieu of those lagging in the adoption of on an online model,...
Everyone’s a PM in an agile business
For many years “project manager” (PM) was not an official title, but more of a role that many people “fell” into – essentially companies had projects, and someone had to manage them, says Frank Reinelt, senior director for Northern Europe and Emerging Markets at...
Not all BI service providers are equal
Business intelligence (BI) is not just about software – it is a long term strategy best carried out in partnership with experts. Sean Paine, chief operating officer at EnterpriseWorx, explains how to choose the right BI partner. It is a sad fact that every hot new...
Konica Minolta wins Microsoft certification
Bidvest company, Konica Minolta South Africa, has been named as a Microsoft Silver Partner with an Application Development Silver competency, positioning the company within the top 5% of Microsoft partners worldwide. This marks an unusual move for a company within the...
BlackBerry launches Q5 smartphone
BlackBerry has introduced the BlackBerry Q5, a new youthful and fun BlackBerry 10 smartphone for selected markets. The BlackBerry Q5 smartphone features a QWERTY keyboard with discrete keys in a stunning youthful design that is confident, fun and bold. Every feature,...
Logikal enhances Indian office
Booming business in India and across Africa has resulted in an upgrade in Logikal Consulting’s offices on the subcontinent. The company recently upgraded and expanded its offices in Chennai in order to house more staff as well as to bring a fresher, more contemporary...
Yellowfin appoints AIGS as local distributor
Global business intelligence (BI) software vendor, Yellowfin, has announced a distribution agreement with South African enterprise IT applications and services provider, Albi Investment Group Services (AIGS). The agreement will see AIGS offer Yellowfin, and its...
SA entrepreneurs soldier on
Vital for economic growth but facing serious challenges, South African small and micro businesses are displaying unwavering entrepreneurial spirit, according to new research commissioned by Regus. Even though some might have fallen into business ownership through...
Asia Pacific leads in phone sales
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end-users totalled nearly 426-million units in the first quarter of 2013, a slight increase of 0,7% from the same period last year, according to Gartner. Worldwide smartphone sales totalled 210-million units in the first quarter of...