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
Fast-growing JSE-listed technology company Adapt IT has acquired SAP specialist Swicon360 for R10,4m in cash plus shares worth R1,3m. Swicon360, which was established 12 years ago, provides business process outsourcing services for the SAP ERP Human Capital Management
SAP, the world’s largest developer of business management software, believes Africa will be its fastest-growing market over the next five years and the company, which is headquartered in Germany, plans to pour money into the continent to ensure its business in key markets grows to US$1bn/year by 2017. SAP co-CEO
Virtual Mobile Technologies (VMT), a local technology company backed by empowerment group Mvelaphanda, has developed products for mobile devices that integrate seamlessly with enterprise software systems like SAP
The seeds of the crisis in Johannesburg’s chaotic billing system were sown five years ago when a R208m tender to upgrade the system was awarded to an inexperienced company whose directors have a record
Johannesburg’s billing problem, which mayor Amos Masondo recently said was not a sign of a crisis, will be investigated, the cooperative governance & traditional affairs department said on Tuesday
Standard Bank will lease space in its new mega data centre in Midrand to telecommunications operators and other companies as it is only able to use a small portion of the space in the expansive facility for its own needs.
