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Loyalty underpins e-commerce as world goes digital

Apr 24, 2020

Retail professionals agree: 2020 will mark a significant year of development, with loyalty at the core of digital commerce. Loyalty programmes, emotional connection to brands and higher level customer interaction will feature strongly. This is according to leading...

Securing digital access vital for remote working

Apr 24, 2020

The use of online technologies has become important to our daily lives now more than ever, as South Africans find new ways to connect to friends, family, school and working environments. The country is adapting to working through a mobile and remote workforce in...

Small businesses are big drivers for SA economy

Apr 24, 2020

Small businesses need the nation to mobilise behind them more than ever before. That’s the word from Mike Anderson, founder and CEO of the National Small Business Chamber (NSBC), who says the role that small businesses play in job creation, poverty alleviation,...

Practical strategies to digitally adapt your business

Apr 19, 2020

The economic impact of Covid-19 pandemic on global businesses has sparked universal uncertainty and panic. Some industries are more accustomed to rapidly-changing conditions than others, which find themselves at sea, particularly when it comes to relying more heavily...

Unleash the power of human-machine collaboration

Apr 19, 2020

While much of the public discourse surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) focusses on dire predictions about robots stealing jobs, a growing number of future-minded business leaders are embracing an altogether more optimistic and empowering narrative. “Visionary...

Future trends in banking, fintech

Apr 19, 2020

Growing competition and rising customer expectations are pushing banking and fintech markets towards introducing interdisciplinary functionalities and focusing on fast and efficient internal operations, leading them to become more digitized in the overall process....

Parliament resumes on virtual platforms

Apr 17, 2020

Last month Parliament took a decision to suspend the programme of its two Houses. This decision was taken a few days before the start of the constituency programme of Parliament. It was as a precautionary measure relating to Covid-19, to drastically limit numbers of...

After the recession, what path will recovery take?

Apr 17, 2020

IHS Markit looks past the horrific second-quarter drop in real GDP, and a deeper recession in 2020 than in 2008–09, to assess the shape and strength of the recovery. A V-shaped recovery in the manufacturing sectors seems plausible, once the large increase in...

IFS gears up to challenge ERP software giants

Apr 17, 2020

By Kathy Gibson – Everyone has heard of the enterprise resource processing (ERP) software giants, and – love them or hate them – probably has a pretty fixed idea about their capability and position in the market. They may not necessarily have heard about...

Lenovo and Veeam power cloud-based data management

Apr 15, 2020

Lenovo storage users stand to benefit from the hardware vendor’s close alliance with Veeam that assures them of a seamless cloud-based data management and backup experience. Ketan Jeevan, brand manager: Lenovo at First Distribution, explains that the two companies...

Lockdown exposes realities of remote working

Apr 14, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown has exposed weaknesses in many organisations’ workforce management practices. While the unique circumstances forced companies to quickly embrace remote working, many were completely unprepared to manage users in their...

SD-WAN helps mitigate risk while driving compliance

Apr 14, 2020

Legacy networks often do not have the capacity and resiliency to handle constantly changing networking needs to ensure that the customer experience isn’t affected. Intelligent, adaptive and intent-based networking is set to shape the future of enterprise networks,...

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