IT asset management is a critical function for IT teams; doing so effectively drives end-user productivity and the ability to better manage total cost of ownership. However, when this is not optimized or built to scale for the evolving needs of an organization, IT teams may find themselves facing multiple challenges such as difficulty in…
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…
In the latest stage of its mega-project to diversify the country’s economy by investing in the tech sector, the Egyptian government is refocusing on its once-thriving offshoring industry, looking in particular to fields including business-process optimisation, AI, and analytics. This has great revenue potential for the country, with analyst firm IDC predicting the global offshoring…
Every 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…
Those 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…
Earlier 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…
In 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…
Despite 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…
Russian 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…
Enterprise 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…