Trends and Analysis - Channelwise

Global supply chain challenges hit Africa hard

Sep 28, 2026

Supply chain challenges have hit the IT channel particularly hard – but we are not alone. As the global supply chain comes under pressure from many different sources, companies are having to pivot to overcome the challenges. We asked Bremer Pauw, chief commercial...

Can AI help solve SA’s logistics crisis?

Sep 28, 2026

South Africa’s logistics challenges have become one of the country’s biggest constraints on economic growth. Congested ports, rail bottlenecks, infrastructure limitations and supply chain disruptions continue to affect exporters, manufacturers, retailers...

Procurement professionals must drive Africa’s next growth phase

Sep 28, 2026

Procurement and supply chain professionals must move beyond simply reducing costs and instead become architects of economic growth, infrastructure delivery, investment confidence and national competitiveness if Africa is to realise its enormous economic potential....

Logistics market set to hit $8,49trn by 2033

Sep 28, 2026

The global logistics market is anticipated to reach $8,49-trillion by 2033, exhibiting a CAGR of 10,1% from 2026 to 2033, according to a report by Grand View Research. Logistics is crucial for ensuring the efficient movement of goods from producers to consumers,...

Building smarter warehouse ecosystems

Sep 28, 2026

The modern warehouse is undergoing a profound transformation. Once viewed primarily as a storage facility, today’s distribution centre has become a highly connected fulfilment hub where people, processes and technology work together to deliver greater speed, accuracy...

Procurement delays disrupt operational continuity

Sep 28, 2026

By Adriaan Venter – When one considers that South Africa’s total estimated public sector procurement spend reaches nearly R1 trillion* per year, according to the Parliamentary Monitoring Group, it’s no wonder that rands and cents feature front and centre in any...

Cyber resilience starts at the endpoint

Sep 6, 2026

By Musa Masungwini – What is the cost of discovering a cyberattack only after it has reached your Security Operations Centre (SOC)? For many organisations, that cost includes operational disruption, financial losses, reputational damage and significant recovery...

CISOs can seize moments of opportunity among the AI chaos

Sep 6, 2026

Chief information security officers (CISOs) must rethink how they lead security, identity and innovation as AI accelerates both opportunity and disruption, says Gartner. To stay ahead, security leaders should focus on three priorities: modernising identity as...

AI coding costs set to outstrip developer salaries

Sep 6, 2026

By 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s salary due to rising large language model (LLM) token consumption and the shift to consumption-based licensing models, according to Gartner. AI tokens are the units of data processed by generative...

Overestimating GenAI will see mainframe exit projects fail

Sep 6, 2026

More than 70% of mainframe exit projects initiated in 2026 will fail to produce the intended benefits due to an overestimation of generative AI (GenAI) tooling capabilities, according to Gartner. “There is a widening gap between the marketing promise of GenAI and its...

We’re surrounded by AI, but starved of real innovation

Sep 6, 2026

By Warren Alberts – If you walk into any tech conference these days, the buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) is impossible to ignore. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this past March, for example, the power of AI was on display wherever you went. Take...

Cloud sovereignty for the AI age

Sep 6, 2026

By Gert Haasbroek – Cloud sovereignty has become one of the most discussed topics within the technology industry, yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. Much of this confusion stems from the assumption that sovereignty is guaranteed simply because data is...

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