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Driving Business Innovation with a Savvy Approach to Enterprise Software
Leon Coetzer, COO at redPanda Software. When business leaders and managers are questioned as to what keeps them up at night, the answer is invariably ‘change’, ‘disruption’, or ‘innovation’. Across...
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Driving customer choice with open access networks
Abraham van der Merwe, Co-founder and Managing Director, Frogfoot Networks. Creating competition in the buoyant Internet service provider (ISP) space plays a crucial role in driving customer choice....
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Can the data lake replace the data warehouse?
Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management. Analytics has become essential to drive the intelligent businesses. However, with the addition of this multitude of unstructured data – think email,...
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SA must invest in cyber security or risk being crippled
In2IT’s CEO, Saurabh Kumar. The spate of cyber-attacks such as the recent Petya ransomware and the related WannaCry a few months ago, have left many organisations in Europe and Asia crippled. The...
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South Africa is Not Digitally Competitive
Pierre le Roux, CEO of Moyo Business Advisory. South Africa’s poor ranking of 47th out of 63 countries in the latest IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking was a direct result of an ineffective...
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SA Company's Unique Algorithm To Advance AI
The team behind the success at Xineoh. As technological advancements continue to develop around the world, a company based in the unassuming corner of Bloemfontein, South Africa, is starting to make...
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Nigeria: Internet Users Hits 91million- NCC
Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta is the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Office (EVC/CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Commission. According to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), by...
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Goodbye Etisalat Nigeria, Hello 9Mobile
Etisalat Nigeria will reportedly become 9Mobile (image: Charlie Fripp) Although there has yet to be official confirmation from the telecommunications operator, Etisalat Nigeria is reportedly changing...
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Mobile money solutions changing the lives of migrant farm workers
Moosa Manjra Chief Executive Officer at Hello Paisa. Sending money from Bloemfontein to Harare takes 22 hours on a bus trip or ten seconds using a mobile money solution. Low-cost mobile money...
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Africa Celebrates World Emoji Day
Monday 17th of July is World Emoji Day. (Image Source: Dekh News) Monday, 17th of July, is World Emoji Day. The worldwide celebration for the "little people inside our phones" started in 2014 and was...
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Sub-Saharan Africa set to surpass half a billion mobile subscribers
Sub-Saharan’s mobile economy valued at $110 Billion – 7.7 Per Cent of GDP. More than half a billion people across Sub-Saharan Africa will be subscribed to a mobile service by the end of a decade,...
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What the future of digital holds for retail banking
Darrel Orsmond, Financial Services Industry Head at SAP Africa Related imageBanks are finding it increasingly difficult to reach and ensure value to their customers in light of the challenge by...
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South African SMEs vulnerable to ransomware attacks
Warren Bonheim, Chief Commercial Officer at Zinia In the most recent mega ransomware attack, ‘Petya’, which broke out in the Ukraine, and swept through Europe and Asia, South African SMMEs need to be...
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Interview: Bridging Africa's Digital Divide
Laurent Grimaldi, CEO of Konnect Africa. In yet another interview showcasing the latest tech developments on the Africa continent, IT News Africa recently spoke to Laurent Grimaldi, CEO of satellite...
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African organisations to benefit from Rubrik’s integration with Pure Storage
African organisations to benefit from Rubrik’s integration with Pure Storage; solution delivers integrated hybrid cloud functionality, simplicity and performance across all environments. Rubrik, a...
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How to keep Western Cape’s water flowing with data analytics
Advanced data analytics can uncover water patterns and possible abnormalities in water usage and loss. On 22 May, the Western Cape was declared a disaster area as an ongoing drought saw dam levels...
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South Africa: Beware of SIM swap scam
MTN warn customers about the latest scam doing the rounds (Image credit: via Google.com) In a statement released on Monday morning, South African telecommunications service provider, MTN, warned its...
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Mwabu tackles education crisis in South Africa
Mwabu launched a new CAPS-aligned product for primary schools in South Africa. Teachers need to be trained to use technology effectively in the classroom environment. It is for this reason that...
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Six Tanzanian operators fined for flouting SIM registration rules
The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has imposed fines on six mobile operators for Sim registration. On the 14th of July, the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA)...
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SEACOM extends fibre network reach in SA
SEACOM, CEO, Byron Clatterbuck. SEACOM is bringing high-speed fibre Internet access services to business and home users in the southern areas of Johannesburg, starting with the rollout of 8 kilometres...
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