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The mall of the future: how to build smarter, digital shopping districts

Since The Mall of Africa, South Africa’s biggest single-phase shopping mall development opened its doors on 28 April, it has dominated social media chat…

Technology in accounting: humans are here to stay

As technology gets smarter and takes over more and more of the work we typically deem “skilled”, are professionals like accountants at risk of…

How safe is your business from a takedown?

After a few years of effort, your business has finally seen a major innovation. In fact, you’re expecting your new product to shake up the…

Here are the business benefits of an efficient CRM system

CRM (customer relationship management) has evolved to encompass more than the traditional customer. In fact, this discipline should be seen as ‘contact relationship management’…

Smart manufacturing is all about an intelligent, connected supply chain

As it stands, factories are dumb — or at least far less intelligent than current technology could actually make them. The current industrial production…

3 ways that companies can unlearn the traditional workplace

The notion of what defines a workplace is evolving with the new millennium. For example, on any given day, a company can have less…

Mobile money in South Africa: what’s in it for banks?

The 2015 State of the Industry Report on Mobile Financial Services tabled at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona brings some interesting but not…

Wearables and the elderly: developing usable tech for technophobes

Despite still being in its infancy, wearable technology is beginning to grow old – fast. With many of us feeling uneasy beyond an arm’s…

Social media, messaging apps driving global mobile money adoption

It’s hardly news that mobile is important to emerging economies. Stories of those countries lepfrogging older technologies have been told so many times that…

Want to race a drone? This Cape Town company will teach you how

While new legislation may have been a blow to South Africa’s burgeoning drone scene, there are still people doing interesting things in the space….

Meet Bartesian, your personal robobartender

Waking up to the sound of your coffee machine starting up and brewing you a fresh cup of coffee beans you can possibly imagine,…

8 challenges every IT consulting firm faces

Consulting is a service business. And because it’s a service business, it doesn’t quite receive the same amount of admiration or recognition as a…

Meet ArachnobeeA, the world’s first Zero G drone

This year NASA, in collaboration with various other Space Agencies, held its fourth annual International Space Apps Challenge in Limassol, Cyprus. The event presented…

3 tips for keeping Microsoft SharePoint relevant in the era of the cloud

Clunky spreadsheets. Cluttered network drives. Unmanageable mailboxes. Issues that many businesses have in common. It’s also important to point out that email, once seen…

Mobility, Internet of Things, ERP = the need to invest in business systems

The enterprise resource planning (ERP) landscape is going through a period of accelerated change as end-user organisations and ERP vendors alike prepare for a…

These are the legacy issues preventing banks from moving to digital

The legacy issues preventing banks from making the move to digital are predominantly related to skills, capacity, systems and strategies. These are all necessary…

How can we narrow the ‘achievement employment gap’ among SA’s tech talent?

We’ve all heard about the IT skills shortage. We also know that we need to encourage students into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)…

Analytics without borders: why SA businesses need to share data

Analytics (or rather deriving insights from data) is an emerging field in South Africa. Due to differing strategic views, lack of infrastructure, or lack…

6 ½ Considerations for securing the home office

Telework predates the BYOD phenomenon by decades. Despite Yahoo!’s move to the contrary, many organizations are shrinking their office spaces and expanding their employees’…

Google’s Project Soli is an innovation from the distant future brought to the present

Google’s ATAP (Advanced Technology and Projects) department has been working on something very special. Called Project Soli, the technology could completely change how we…

3 massive technologies set to define the next few years

Last year saw some major technological advances in industry and further developments on the smart factory front. It was a year that demonstrated 3D…

On-demand on the rise, further down the retailing rabbit hole we go

As the customer, I want you to kick-back and initiate spectator mode, which is when you step back and watch the chaos in front…

Just how big a threat is cybercrime to South Africa?

The speed of technological change is leaving gaping holes in highly sensitive company IT infrastructure. These vulnerabilities are being targeted by cybercriminals at an…

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