Low-down on the budget

South Africa is facing perhaps its toughest budget yet, and the year ahead will be tough as citizens have to fork out for a record fiscal deficit. Kathy Gibson attended PwC’s pre-budget review to find out what we can expect As social, political and economic...

Africa: land of challenge and opportunity

What can the ICT industry expect to see in 2018, and how can players prepare for it? Kathy Gibson attended IDC Directions to find out more. Africa is a unique and very different market to do business in, but there are as many challenges as opportunities. “We live in a...

Open source drives digitalisation

Open source has a big role to play in enabling the new trends driving IT and business today. Kathy Gibson reports from SUSEcon in Prague Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, data analytics, high performance computing and digital transformation all...

People, technology key to business success

The world is changing as digitalisation, driven by cloud-everywhere, takes over the business environment. Underpinning the new business models is an IT infrastructure that is pervasive, intelligent, managed and connected. And this is enabling organisations to do more,...

The journey to smart cities

The network is rapidly becoming the enabler for digitalisation, as edge-to-cloud connectivity and manageability start to make the connected world a reality. One of the areas where this pervasive connectivity is going to start making a huge difference to everyone is in...
Infor introduces artificial intelligence

Infor introduces artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence looks set to be the ‘killer app’ of the next couple of years, and it’s rapidly becoming pervasive in the application software used to run our companies. Mark Davison was at Inforum 2017 in New York to learn about Infor’s move into the world of...