 | SOUTH AFRICA  [Rob Lith] A very exciting development currently playing out in the voice over IP (VoIP) arena is the sudden growth in fibre business premises.
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 | SOUTH AFRICA  [Alexander Mehlhorn] We all recognise the stereotypical IT manager sitting behind a desk in the company dungeon, wearing a t-shirt sporting an obscure geek reference, and sighing into the phone as he tries to convince the marketing manager to use a password other than 'God'.
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 | SOUTH AFRICA [Perry Hutton] Bringing the issue of security into the big data discussion often produces two divergent schools of thought from IT professionals - categorical denial that big data should be treated any differently from existing network infrastructure, and an opposite response towards over-engineering the solution given the actual (or perceived) value of the data involved. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA [Karl Reed] Full Interaction Process Automation (IPA) has long been a dream of enterprises everywhere, but until now, the 'rip and replace' factor has stood in the way of achieving it. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA [Kevin Phillips] Most accountants and auditors know the "fraud triangle", the combination of incentive, opportunity and rationalisation that creates a risk that an employee will attempt to defraud his company. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA [Jed Hewson] If you were to ask a roomful of IT professionals what the cloud is, and whether businesses should move some (or all) of their processes to the cloud - you are likely to get a diverse range of answers. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA [Rihana Hoosain] A common cause of business failure is overinvestment in fixed assets; the high costs associated with purchasing, setting up and managing infrastructure, hardware and software can be daunting and detrimental to the cash required to fund the growth of the business. |
| SOUTH AFRICA [Alexander Mehlhorn] From SMEs to large multinationals, businesses need to adapt to changing global market conditions to remain competitive. Because opportunities can't be predicted or planned for, it is becoming imperative to be able to revise processes and deliver new products and services without delay. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA  [Sindy Peters] Western Cape Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism Alan Winde impressed attendees at the annual Net Prophet conference last week with news of exciting tech innovations for the province.
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 | SOUTH AFRICA [Paul Fick] Cloud services and hosted services have been talked about for many years, but only recently, since bandwidth has become more available and affordable, have they become a viable option in South Africa. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA [Gys Kappers] Businesses today operate within a dynamic environment, shaped by variables, such as evolving legislation, globalisation and economic volatility. Disruptive new technologies create new competitors overnight and the only way to get and stay in front is constantly to innovate. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA [Roelof Louw] Many organisations are acknowledging the benefits of migrating to the cloud and are seeing their competitors either considering this option or having already made the move. For small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the decision is easy as the path to migrate is less onerous and considerably less complex. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA [Niven Perumal] Most businesses have physical premises to protect - warehouses, offices or stores that are vulnerable to crime - as well as virtual "assets" and information. Technology can play a crucial role in protecting both. |
| SOUTH AFRICA [Jed Hewson] Gartner has said that there will be a 17% compound growth over the next five years for contact centre adoption of hosted call centre solutions, and it expects that by the end of this year, 75% of global call centres will be leveraging hosted call centre solutions. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA [Mike Jarvis] While most organisations go to great lengths to "comply" with requirements related to corporate governance, the increasingly important area of IT basically remains overlooked. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA [Drew van Vuuren] Skills shortages in information security disciplines critical to managing business security pose a threat to South African organisations. The result is that business and government could end up employing inadequately skilled resources that offer short-term or tactical solutions to security issues, leaving company systems vulnerable to cybercrime. |
| SOUTH AFRICA [Chris Rolfe] In this article I would like to delve into the area of mobile CRM and mobile rewards, and how brand owners and marketers address some of the challenges that they face in building robust strategies to tackle the wave of mobile opportunities that are now upon us. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA [Bruce von Maltitz] Smaller or new call centres are often lured by the promise of free call centre software that can be downloaded and cobbled together by an "IT professional", thus reducing their initial capex investment. |
| SOUTH AFRICA [Roelof Louw] Cloud computing is predicted to be the future of the technology world and analyst reports abound on the expected growth of the uptake of these solutions. However, security issues remain one of the dominant barriers with the adoption of cloud solutions. |
 | [IT & Telecommunications] bringing potential work to live by using the right tools and not cracked software or other artificial programs ;-) |
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