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Tech to lead businesses beyond recovery

Mar 15, 2021

Although 2020 might have been a year that no one could have predicted, shrouded with uncertainty, technology was the one constant. Helping businesses become more agile and connected with communities in different ways, it provided an essential part of our human and...

Trends to watch this year

Mar 15, 2021

After a very long 2020 I believe that the enterprise IT market has gotten used to our changed world and we should see a return to previous levels of growth in 2021. By Peter Mülders, Synthesis customer success manager Cloud infrastructure and SaaS tools are going to...

IT security recommendations for business

Mar 15, 2021

Remote work will be the catalyst for a shift from the corporate perimeter concept to micro-office security certification; outsourcing of IT and cybersecurity functions will be crucial to solve expertise shortages and save budgets; to coordinate managed service...

Themes that will impact the TMT industry

Mar 15, 2021

Companies which invest in the right themes become success stories, while those who miss the big themes end up as failures, according to data and analytics specialist GlobalData. Therefore, it has revealed its predictions for 2021 across the technology, media, and...

How to secure a work-from-anywhere environment

Mar 5, 2021

When Covid-19 closed offices worldwide, it created a new urgency for organisations of all kinds and sizes — and particularly the CIOs, CISOs and IT leaders within them — to secure their remote work environments. By Jim Alkove, chief trust officer at Salesforce As the...

Should you ditch your business phone?

Mar 5, 2021

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) provider Zoom launched Zoom Phone in South Africa last year, having launched it in 2019 in limited markets. By Nic Laschinger, chief technology officer of Euphoria Telecom Following on from the launch of Skype for Business...

Lessons to take from working in 2020

Mar 5, 2021

This time a year ago no-one was prepared for what would become our working lives. Working from home, continuous Zoom meetings from, constant mask wearing and sanitising – and many businesses being forced to close their doors, some permanently. So what have we...

The SME’s simple guide to POPIA

Mar 5, 2021

From 1 July this year, South African companies must be fully compliant with the requirements of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). This is the realisation of a process that began in 2013 with the government looking to introduce certain conditions for...

Motivational tips for aspiring entrepreneurs

Mar 5, 2021

Throughout history, times of crisis have been instrumental in development of new products and services. Where there is a need, an opportunity exists, and eventually an entrepreneur will recognise it. Lyndy van den Barselaar, Managing Director of ManpowerGroup SA...

How to keep the lights on in 2021

Feb 22, 2021

Eskom announced this year that load shedding is expected to continue as power demand exceeds supply and more downtime is needed for overdue maintenance of the system. By Mathew Hall, product director at Rectron According to the latest data published by the state-owned...

Factors that will aid small business recovery

Feb 22, 2021

Small and medium enterprises tend to take the hardest knocks in an economic downturn. Nothing illustrates this better than the unravelling impact of Covid-19, which left many SMEs teetering on the edge of collapse. Colin Timmis, general country manager and...

Get back to basics to protect people and data out of office

Feb 22, 2021

The workplace has been redefined by the pandemic, with fewer people in formal offices and more people working remotely. And, it’s unlikely to change. Two international surveys show that at least 16% of workers will remain at-home workers long after the Covid-19 crisis...

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