by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Features
Sometimes, office work feels like having to walk on swampy ground: in the morning, the employee arrives at the office in high spirits, immediately finding that even just booting up their desktop PC (much older than the consumer notebook at home) seems to take forever....
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Features
For many people, the thought of retirement is no less stressful than the thought of retrenchment, and financial planners need to be fully cognisant of this when advising clients on their future financial situation. This important factor was recognised recently when...
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Features
Medium businesses can gain the most from the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). But many aren’t aware of this. ERP and other large business systems were once exclusively expensive and elaborate. They required many hours and intense computer systems to establish then...
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Features
As one of the world’s leading software companies, VMware believes it has a responsibility to drive diversity and inclusion through the industry. By Kathy Gibson Jean-Pierre Brulard, senior vice-president and GM: EMEA at VMware is passionate about the subject and has...
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Features
Display designs, such as those found in retail stores, are no longer confined to static visuals on pull-up banners, 2D print and posters. By Timothy Wilson, visual imaging business account manager at Epson South Africa The increasingly popular use of projection...
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
Azure and Azure Storage can handle multiple data types, like the hugely popular Rainbow Six Siege from Ubisoft. Thanks to Azure, Ubisoft has the elastic scalability to deliver play to 3-million players a day engaged in hundreds of thousands of concurrent games....
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
With the World Bank forecasting economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa at 3.6% for 2019-20, some of the world’s most fast-growing economies are in Africa. By Pieter Bensch, executive vice-president at Sage Africa & Middle East Rapid urbanisaiton, business friendly...
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
In five years, the world will have more than 40-billion devices. Locally, IoT specialist, Eseye, says that South African CIOs are recognising IoT (Internet of Things) and M2M (Machine to Machine) technologies as strategic imperatives, but the journey is still in its...
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
Modern shoppers have retained a primal trait – hunting and the hunting season gathers pace every year on Black Friday easing towards Christmas. In an indoorsy environment of the safe suburbs, shoppers follow the scent of a sale and hunt for deals and discounts. Some...
by Kathy Gibson | Dec 14, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
Reckitt Benckiser (RB) makes a wide range of popular consumer health, hygiene, and home products. To empower its staff to make data-based decisions, RB replaced its existing business intelligence (BI) solution with Microsoft Power BI and Azure. RB is a global consumer...
