by Kathy Gibson | Jan 11, 2022 | Thought Leadership
Increased leadership expectations and evolving business requirements have no doubt kept many CIOs awake at night over the last couple of years. By Greg Gatherer, account manager at Liferay Africa Too frequently, IT and technology professionals are excluded from key...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 11, 2022 | Thought Leadership
Talking about how cryptocurrencies will change the world will invariably see the blockchain mentioned at least in passing. And yet, the technology is about so much more than that. Vincent Entonu, Comstor Africa director at Westcon-Comstor Sub-Saharan Africa...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 11, 2022 | Thought Leadership
Of all the records South Africa holds, the most unwanted must be the fact that our unemployment rate is now the highest in the world. By Avesh Singh, head of TransUnion’s South Africa Global Capability Centre (GCC) The official statistics say the unemployment rate,...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 11, 2022 | Trends and Analysis
According to Sasria’s 2020 Integrated Financial Report, the insurer paid net insurance claims of R1,578-million in 2019 and R991-million in 2020, while the recent riots and looting caused damages worth R25-billion. Disruptions and malicious property damages of...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 11, 2022 | Thought Leadership
Have you ever watched a teenager creating posts for social media? By Bradley Pulford, vice-president and MD of HP Africa It’s fascinating. While most of us, in our 30s and beyond are content with selecting a photo as is, and posting it, these digital natives are...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 11, 2022 | Thought Leadership
The numbers illustrate there is an evolution taking place, writes James Bayhack, director: sub-Saharan Africa at CM.com. According to Statista, 97% of respondents to a digital transformation survey stated that the pandemic sped up digital transformation processes in...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 11, 2022 | Trends and Analysis
There is no question that the COVID-19 pandemic has spearheaded the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) and caused seismic shifts to the modern business landscape. In a recent SEDA (Small Enterprise Development Agency) study, 74% of SMEs surveyed indicated that they...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 6, 2022 | Features
South Africans are no strangers to the concept of fake news or disinformation circulating on social media. But they often feel helpless about their inability to correctly identify or combat it. The last couple of years have been a particularly rich field for...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 4, 2022 | Thought Leadership
As South Africa battles a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections, all eyes are on how businesses will steady the ship and continue to prepare themselves for future shocks and disruptions. This, coupled with a global surge in cyber-attacks, means that digital...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 4, 2022 | Product Showcase
Oracle has announced the availability of the Oracle Exadata X9M platforms for running Oracle Database. The new Exadata X9M offerings include Oracle Exadata Database Machine X9M and Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M that runs Oracle Autonomous Database in customer data...
