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Digital transformation benefits SA businesses

Oct 30, 2020

Most South African businesses that want to stay competitive in the current market are looking for solutions to save on costs, reduce risk, ensure employee satisfaction, and deliver exceptional customer service. New operating models, technology and process...

Why small towns and villages are good places to open businesses

Oct 30, 2020

For a while now, tech companies and workers have been eyeing smaller cities to escape the exorbitant real estate costs, manic lifestyles, and endless traffic jams in traditional tech hubs. By Andrew Bourne, region manager: Africa at Zoho Corporation The time is ripe...

Cyber security has to be a C-Level priority

Oct 30, 2020

The importance of an integrated IT security strategy is steadily increasing, especially in current pandemic times. The accelerated digitalization in almost all areas of life has broadened the scope of possible attacks by hackers. With isolated bottom-up projects, it...

How scammers hook SMEs

Oct 30, 2020

Online scammers are forever trying to trick not only unsuspecting users, but also company employees. Sure, it is usually far harder to dupe a business than a retiree, but the potential rate of return is far higher in the former case. Therefore, attempts to get SMes to...

Everything you need to know about CEO fraud

Oct 30, 2020

CEO fraud – also called business email compromise (BEC) – is a scam in which cybercriminals spoof company email accounts and impersonate executives to try and fool an employee in accounting or HR into executing unauthorised wire transfers, or sending out confidential...

The changing landscape of high-speed connectivity

Oct 22, 2020

Internet access has come a long way from the R28 000 it cost for a 256kbps connection in 1995. By Shane Chorley, head of sales and marketing at Frogfoot Even prior to the lockdown, almost 500 000 homes and more than 114, 00 business premises were connected to fibre...

Security threats of working remotely

Oct 22, 2020

As businesses navigate themselves through the current pandemic, the way in which they operate has changed forever. Lockdown has forced businesses to make very quick decisions. What has previously taken months and years, has been agreed in weeks. The crisis forced...

Evolution of cyber-threats and risk in the new reality

Oct 22, 2020

Just six months ago, the extent of the changes the world has seen would have been all but unthinkable. The Covid-19 pandemic has shut down countries and forced people to quickly and radically change they way they live and work. However, people and organisations have...

From crisis-struck to risk-shielded supply chain management

Oct 22, 2020

With the disrupted supply chains of today in the spotlight, supply chain management (SCM) has transformed as a consideration, moving from a “behind the scenes” organisational role to a prime driver of company business. By Baljeet Nagi As enterprises transition to the...

How Covid-29 is driving changes in manufacturing and supply chain

Oct 22, 2020

As the world slowly opens up again, we are waking up to the realisation that supply chains are not as immutable as they were before. The logical conclusion is that local manufacturing must step up to take up the shortfall. But is this playing out? In this interview...

These are the top strategic tech trends for 2021

Oct 22, 2020

Gartner has outlined the top strategic technology trends that organisations need to explore in 2021. “The need for operational resiliency across enterprise functions has never been greater,” says Brian Burke, research vice-president at Gartner. “CIOs are striving to...

Omnichannel commerce: reframing the future

Oct 16, 2020

Before up became down and up again as the landscape shifted societally, culturally and economically at a rush rate as Covid-19 bust through the gates, South African e-commerce had anticipated a year on year growth. The value at that time was sitting with apparel,...

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