The COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant shift in South African consumer behaviour, with more shoppers turning to loyalty programmes than ever before. In fact, the average economically active South African belongs to about eight different programmes. As the CIO of Discovery Vitality, Nadira Misthry is invested in this trend. Vitality is the rewards programme for…
DetailsEvery CIO is acutely aware that their IT infrastructure now underpins the success of the business. Scalable, integrated compute, network, and data platforms are the prerequisites to delivering exceptional experiences for customers and staff. The challenge now? For IT to design a modern, cloud-first infrastructure that is integrated, secure and software-driven, all while ‘keeping the…
DetailsThose who follow the latest developments in enterprise technology will agree that open source software is the beating heart of every major computing platform on the planet. In a world that is moving faster than ever before, innovation and the ability to rapidly adapt are key to business success and survival. By leveraging the skills…
DetailsEarlier in the year, a World Bank report into Asia Pacific confirmed something many of us assumed – disruption in business across Asia Pacific has been severe. There are signs of recovery – for example, another report found that new business formation has lifted 35 per cent year-on-year across the region, however businesses still face…
DetailsIn today’s transformative business environment, emerging technology has a decisive role to play in an organization’s innovations, customer experience and overall success. While business leaders have the greatest insight about the organization’s needs and objectives (and likely have new ideas on how to achieve those objectives), the CIO has the greatest knowledge of what is…
DetailsDespite much discussion about how to icrease the percentage of women in cybersecurity roles over the last decade, women make up only 25% of the global cybersecurity workforce, according to the latest (ISC)² Cybersecurity Workforce Study. The Middle East-focused Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC), held 21-23 March 2022 in Dubai, provided a full-day…
DetailsRussian corporations believe they can replace software from Western vendors such as SAP with solutions they have developed themselves. Meanwhile, thousands of IT specialists are leaving the country. After several major software vendors including Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP announced they were shutting down their operations in Russia, Russian companies are apparently now looking to switch…
DetailsEnterprise data management vendor Informatica has released the first industry-specific version of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) for retail customers. Called the Intelligent Data Management Cloud for Retail, the data management platform customizes Informatica’s suite of machine learning-powered tools to help retail customers catalog, ingest, integrate, and prepare data for use in analytics and…
DetailsFor organizations looking to move beyond stale reports, decision intelligence holds promise, giving them the ability to process large amounts of data with a sophisticated mix of tools such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform data dashboards and business analytics into more comprehensive decision support platforms. Successful decision intelligence strategies, however, require an…
DetailsFounded in 1915, Black & Veatch is an employee-owned global business that employs more than 10,000 professionals and provides a wide range of engineering services. The advent of digital technologies has had a major impact on the business, in both what services it delivers and how it delivers them, including IoT (internet of things) technologies…
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