If you frequent the conferences and launches held by technology companies, you would surely have come across statements similar to the following: “Up to 40% of today’s Fortune 500 companies will not be around in a decade’s time. They will
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Business software maker SAP introduced the most significant update to its database software in five years, which includes new tools for analysing the stream of data being created by smart sensors
South Africa’s big four retail and commercial banks spent in excess of R30bn on IT in the 12 months to end-June 2016, including the cost of staff involved in this function. Excluding the cost of people, nearly R15 out of every R100 spent on
Technology companies that make business software are never going to match the glamour of their consumer counterparts. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is a household name, but many would be hard-pressed
SAP’s CEO, Bill McDermott, has lost an eye after a freak accident. McDermott, who said he will continue to lead the German business software giant, revealed in a Facebook post on Thursday that the accident happened in July, while he was visiting his father on his 76th birthday.
Microsoft has announced its intention to hire more autistic people – not as a charitable enterprise but because, as corporate vice-president Mary Ellen Smith says: “People with autism bring strengths that we need at Microsoft.” Employing autistic people makes good business
SAP has takes the wraps off a seven-year plan to invest US$500m (about R5,3bn) in Africa, hoping to accelerate its growth across five regions on the continent, including South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya. Through the long-term investment, the German software maker plans to train up to
Troubled IT firm Gijima has secured the services of one of South Africa’s top technology businessmen, Maphum Nxumalo, who will join the JSE-listed company as chief operating officer on 1 July. Nxumalo, a former chief operating officer of SAP Africa, has also been named to Gijima’s board as an executive director
Cell C employees began moving into the company’s sprawling new campus, built at the confluence of the N1 and N3 freeways in Woodmead, near Midrand, at the end of last year. The 50 000sq m facility includes a main head office facility, a customer service centre, a new national network
MTN has launched a new suite of cloud-based business software applications in partnership with Germany’s SAP and South African software services company Britehouse. MTN Business ERP solution offers SAP’s Business One cloud-based software to its business customers and to resellers