SAP renews focus on cloud services
SAP has revealed it’s on track to build a $2billion cloud business by 2015, saying the acquisition of Ariba has accelerated it’s cloud growth strategy. Announced at Saphila 2012, the business solutions company says it will use this years User Group conference to showcase innovative cloud technologies and highlight their potential to make businesses run [...]
Rapid rise in data poses challenges for SA businesses
The level of data collected by businesses has become increasingly prolific in recent years, often resulting in significant challenges for these organisations to ensure that their systems are robust enough to effectively capture the data and process it into meaningful information. The mastering of these challenges will be key to organisations gaining and maintaining competitive [...]
Microsoft launches Windows 8 in SA
Microsoft has introduced its Windows 8 operating system to the local market. From today Windows 8 and more than 40 Windows 8 devices will be immediately available from major retail stores countrywide, with numerous launch offers on both Windows 8 and the devices. Windows 8 offers a new user interface (UI), a wide range of [...]
SAPS, Adobe raid software pirates
In a joint operation with the Commercial Crime Unit of the South African Police Services (SAPS), Adobe executed an anti-piracy raid on a computer business in Johannesburg recently. The company had been reported in dealing in illegal distribution and sales of computer software. Two suspects were apprehended and later admitted to selling counterfeit software and [...]
Secure backups – or Vox pays out R100 000
Vox Telecom has announced a suite of products to bring the security, cost and reliability of corporate-grade hosted services to small and medium-sized businesses – and they’re so confident of success they’re offering to pay up to R100 000 to any business that can’t restore its audited data from Vox backups. “For the past few [...]
Reunert announces merger
Reunert has announced the merging of two business units, Nashua Communications and Nashua ECN. According to Dave Rawlinson CEO of Reunert, the combined entity will trade under the name of Nashua Communications and will be headed up by the current Nashua ECN managing director, Andy Openshaw. “This announcement is the culmination of months of thought [...]
SA joins IBM entrepreneur initiative
IBM has announced its Global Entrepreneur Program will for the first time, be extended to entrepreneurs in South Africa. Start-ups that are privately held, have been in business for five years or less and are actively engaged in developing a software based product or service, as being called on, to sign-up for this global initiative. [...]
Ngcaba reinvests R1.26bn in DiData
Dimension Data Middle East and Africa chairman, Andile Ngcaba, has announced he will reinvest the R1.26 billion in proceeds from a 2004 black economic empowerment deal signed with the company in 2004. Ngcaba said he will, through Convergence Partners, remain a shareholder, together with 35 broad-based groups. He will also remain chairman of DDMEA. The deal [...]
When outsourcing grows local skills
It might be argued that outsourcing specialised software engineering work to an Indian supplier could take away from local skills development and job opportunities. But nothing could be further from the truth, says Indian IT outsourcing company Zensar Technologies. Zensar, which has been active in SA for several years, provides IT outsourcing services to South African market [...]
Automation, cloud services the next step in Africa
A big focus area for African business is to automate end to end IT processes in order to reduce costs and re-assign valuable resources all within a secure software platform, says BMC software. According to Paul Cant, Area Vice President for Iberia, Africa and the Middle East at BMC Software, the three main challenges facing [...]
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