With South Africa's unemployment rate reaching 27.6% in the first quarter of 2019, worryingly approaching a 15-year high, it is important for corporate South Africa to assist in creating a pool of skills that will not only address today's workforce requirements, but those of tomorrow...
Dineo Molefe 11 Jul 2019
The country turned its attention to young people during Youth Month...
25 Jun 2019
Quality video conferencing, together with the added features of presence, document sharing, screen sharing, and mobility capability, also known as Unified Communication...
Corrie Lynch 10 Jun 2019
The proliferation of local and global public cloud platforms is resulting in a spike of cloud uptake across South African businesses...
Louis Kirstein 25 May 2019
Whether they are part of an organisation's in-house IT team, or part of a software development agency, developers in South Africa have to operate under great pressure...
Andre Schwan 21 May 2019
The PWC Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey published in 2018 states that over a quarter of South African respondents believe that cybercrime will be the most disruptive, impactful crime...
Marcus Karuppan 13 May 2019
The success of the South African economy lies in the hands of the entrepreneurs, the small businesses and the enterprises that support them...
Chetan Goshalia 11 Dec 2018
As the entrails of the era under South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma continue to be exposed each day before a commission set up to investigate corruption...
Mark Swilling 10 Dec 2018
The 30% Club has announced this year's recipients of the premier Gender Mainstreaming Awards...
19 Sep 2018
The idea of youth employment creation became critical two years ago when South Africa was facing downgrades by ratings agencies...
Tashmia Ismail-Saville 3 Sep 2018
Cloud is here! It's happening. The question should not be whether or not you are prepared, but...
Sonja Weber 15 Aug 2018
Despite the compelling advantages of the cloud, many local businesses are still nervous to modernise and migrate their SAP ERP systems...
Zelda Klaver 19 Jul 2018
The annual Vision 2030 Awards honour the achievements and share the success stories of organisations, enterprises and individuals that actively demonstrate alignment to the South African government's Nine-Point Plan to boost economic growth and achieve the milestones set by the National Development Plan (NDP)...
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27 Mar 2018
Former Eskom chairman Ben Ngubane appeared before the parliamentary inquiry into state capture of Eskom on Wednesday to answer questions, ranging from the employment contract of former CEO Brian Molefe to the prepayment made to Gupta-owned Tegeta Exploration and Resources for coal supplies...
Linda Ensor 7 Mar 2018
Local retailers have an incredible opportunity to get a head-start on competition, by applying the science of digital platform thinking, to transform decades-old practices...
Mpumi Nhlapo 7 Mar 2018
Many South African retailers remain steadfast in their traditional business models, characterised by high-touch, 'bricks-and-mortar' engagements, as they try to create the best possible in-store experiences...
Lindy Lee 24 Jan 2018
Budgets are tight, with rising electricity and petrol prices driving many households to tighten their purse strings. In response, the retail industry is becoming increasingly competitive...
Lindy Lee 17 Nov 2017
Jon Tullett, research manager of IT Services at IDC Africa, says the ongoing macro-economic difficulties in the market are expected to continue, and this will, in turn, continue to inhibit growth in dollar terms...
24 Oct 2017
The retail shopping experience is no longer a linear one, where a person simply enters a store, makes a purchase and leaves...
Lindy Lee 29 Sep 2017
The digital revolution is not just apparent in the design and build of cars themselves, but digital tools are reshaping the automotive industry's customer buying and after-sales environments as well...
Dereshin Pillay 28 Sep 2017
The expanding scope of tech-enabled learning, employment and business opportunities has the potential of changing the role of women...
Dineo Molefe 16 Aug 2017
Digital transformation, as we've come to realise, means something different in every industry. In manufacturing, the term can be broad-reaching...
Dereshin Pillay 27 Jul 2017
The 64th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity hosted the Cannes Mobile award ceremony on 20 June 2017, where Native VML secured two Bronze Lions for Huffington Post's Stop the Cycle 360o mobile video...
20 Jun 2017
The 64th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity hosted the Cannes Cyber award ceremony on 20 June 2017...
20 Jun 2017
As more and more South African firms continue with their cloud migration programmes, the importance of having an enterprise-wide data archiving strategy comes sharply into focus...
Matthias Meiert 7 Jun 2017
Once the darling of the US retail industry, Sears has become a poster-child of what happens when poor strategy meets brutal levels of digital disruption...
Mpumi Nhlapo 2 Jun 2017
A view of how seriously South African companies are taking the challenge of women being able to shape - not just fit into - the economy...
Robyn de Villiers 13 Apr 2017
I recently attended an event at Groote Schuur Hospital to celebrate the fantastic patient management solution T-Systems and the Wayde Dreamer Foundation have designed...
Ilse van den Berg 24 Feb 2017
25 Jan 2017
As we enter the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, organisations across the globe are investing time and money in technology to go fully digital...
Adre du Plessis 29 Dec 2016
As part of the City of Johannesburg's move toward a seamless and integrated public transport system, the launch of the second phase of the VayaMoja mobile app is imminent...
13 Oct 2016
Bringing your analogue business to today's digital markets is the equivalent of bringing a knife to a gunfight...
AJ Hartenberg 6 Oct 2016
The digital revolution is upon us and it has left no industry untouched. Doing a fine job at keeping up with the rate of change is the automotive industry...
Lauren Hartzenberg 29 Sep 2016
SAP Skills for Africa is a skills development and job creation initiative launched by SAP Africa in 2015. The latest chapter...
29 Sep 2016
With innovations like high-speed connectivity, sensors, big data, geolocation and mobile services, transit routes can become the connective tissue that creates stronger communities and...
Harry van Huyssteen 29 Sep 2016
Digital transformation... not just a business buzzword, but a modern business reality...
Lauren Hartzenberg 26 Sep 2016
T-Systems South Africa, for a consecutive year, has been recognised at the Gender Mainstreaming Awards (GMA) ceremony, coming first in three categories and walking away as overall winners of two of them.
14 Sep 2016
Africa could become the new China, and may serve as a classic staging ground for new technologies, i.e., mobile communications and mobile payment platforms...
29 Aug 2016
Providing social customer service and support in today's multi-channel environment is by no means an easy task...
Mpumi Nhlapo 30 Jun 2016
Information technology (IT) as energy is not a new concept but has been spoken about in the 90s and the early 2000's. It is the analogy were IT services can be regarded in a similar light to energy...
AJ Hartenberg 10 Jun 2016
The second InTouch Technology 2016 event took place in Cape Town on 19 May, highlighting digital transformation and breakthrough technologies that create opportunities for businesses in various industries.
24 May 2016
23 May 2016
Michael Frans, head of business operations: automotive at T-Systems South Africa...
Lauren Hartzenberg 23 May 2016
The key problem in business is that while technology changes, business processes don't...
Lauren Hartzenberg 19 May 2016
T-Systems South Africa, a supplier of end-to-end ICT solutions in both the ICT operations and systems integration markets, recently hosted the 30% Club event at its head office in Midrand...
2 Mar 2016
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Technology has driven a revolution in the way people work, play, interact and even how they think. Evolving technology has opened up new business models...
Kim Andersen 17 Jan 2016
Cloud is one of the most significant over-arching growth trends driving digital transformation today. Although in South Africa we are seeing some uptake of this technology...
AJ Hartenberg 3 Dec 2015