by Kathy Gibson | Aug 16, 2021 | Product Showcase
Cisco has announced a new portfolio of Catalyst industrial routers. Featuring 5G capabilities today, the portfolio enables organisations to run connected operations at scale with choice of management tools suited for both IT and operations. The new portfolio includes:...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports – South African companies have fallen behind in their digital transformation efforts, despite the pandemic and lockdown making digital more relevant than ever before. Although just over half of companies are either fully transformed or underway,...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
One of the most efficient ways for small businesses to cope with the mounting issues they face in the current economic climate is to make sure they get their tax filing right. By Louis Fourie, CA(SA) and MD of BVSA That’s why we’ve teamed up with Xero as part of their...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
True leadership in a crisis is about ensuring that the people around you feel protected, informed and most of all, trusted. As more and more South Africans turn towards business entities for answers to solve societal issues, expectations on business leaders to manage...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
In June 2021 the village Lytton in Canada, experienced its hottest day ever reaching 49.6C, way above its previous record of 45C. Shortly after, this same village was destroyed in a massive wildfire. This excessive heat was not only responsible for many deaths and...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
The online retail industry is experiencing an unprecedented boom, with indications that the sector was worth R30-billion in 2020, a full third higher than estimates just three years ago. This means retailers of all shapes and sizes need to ensure their systems and...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit South Africa’s small business sector hard and there are grim statistics to bear this out. By Ameen Hassen, head: shari’ah banking at Standard Bank Group Those statistics will not be repeated here. After all, if you are a small business...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
More than 50% of IT teams believe that employees have bad security habits. Habits they’ve developed since moving their offices into the home and that put their information, systems and employers at risk. The statistic comes from the Tessian Back to Work Security...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Featured Story, Features
By Kathy Gibson – In this age of digital transformation, it’s sometimes hard to remember that the world wasn’t always connected. But it wasn’t that long ago that South Africans went online for the first time. In January 1995, IT trade newspaper Computing SA ran...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Thought Leadership
By Kathy Gibson – Back in the early 1990s, the world was just starting to go online, and a spirit of innovation and sense of possibility was the order of the day. Anthony Gerada, one of the pioneers of the Internet market in South Africa, shares some memories of...
