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MTN unveils new Summer Campaign “With Love from MTN”
MTN is turning five of its lucky subscribers into overnight millionaires just for being on the MTN network. MTN will be giving away a monthly cash prize of R1 million to each lucky subscriber between October 2015 to January 2016…
MTN Business completes Hybrid Cloud offering with Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
MTN Business has taken another step in moving African enterprises closer to accessing cloud services. The company today announced it would offer Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute to its clientele. Customers can use Azure ExpressRoute as a value added service, to enable…
MTN Business and partners discuss digital business at Gartner Symposium
MTN Business and its partners, consulting firm Accenture and financial services group MMI, hosted a panel discussion today at the Gartner Symposium in Cape Town. The panellists drove the conversation forward on the importance and emergence of the digital business.…
Deloitte and IBM Watson bring Cognitive Analytics to SA
Deloitte and IBM co-hosted an event at the Deloitte Greenhouse innovation facility titled “Cognitive Analytics and the smartest machine on earth – experience the art of the possible with IBM Watson”. Werner Swanepoel, Director at Deloitte explained that: “Deloitte and…
HDS unveils new advancements in predictive policing
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, announced new enhancements to its Hitachi Visualisation solution portfolio: Hitachi Visualisation Suite 4.5 now with Hitachi Visualisation Predictive Crime Analytics (PCA) and Hitachi Video Management Platform (VMP) 2.0. PCA…
ESET announces East African expansion
ESET, a global leader in security software for over 25 years, has announced the opening of their Kenyan office under the management of Bruce Donovan, with a focus on business development, channel sales, marketing and distribution. Kenya is recognised as…
SAP Africa launches SA chapter of SAP Skills for Africa initiative
SAP Africa today announced the details of the latest chapter in the company’s SAP Skills for Africa job creation initiative. SAP Skills for Africa is an integral part of SAP Africa’s commitment to train 10,000 ICT consultants across the continent…
South Africa: MTN Zakhele prepares for listing on JSE
MTN Zakhele has revealed that it plans to list its ordinary shares as BEE Securities on the BEE Segment of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) on 5 November 2015. MTN Zakhele, with a market capitalisation of R9 billion, will be the…
SAP Announces the Simplified Front Office
SAP SE has announced future integrated digital enterprise technologies that are intended to transform the relationships companies have with their customers. SAP plans to unleash a powerful portfolio of SAP hybris tools that are envisioned to enable in-the-moment customer profiling,…
Competition Commission gives go ahead for Infrasol acquisition
Datacentrix has been given the Competition Commission’s green light for its purchase of Infrasol, an infrastructure design and deployment business. The deal will see the company bolster its existing network and communications, datacentre and outsourcing businesses. Infrasol focuses on four…
Frost & Sullivan recognises best-in-class companies across Africa
On Thursday, August 20th, Frost & Sullivan honoured recipients of its 2015 Growth, Innovation & Leadership Awards Banquet held in Cape Town, South Africa. The evening event, with its celebratory ambiance and prestigious Awards, brought together more than 140 top…
Barloworld to transform its business using cloud solution
It may have a distinct advantage, but Barloworld Equipment, a subsidiary of the Barloworld Group, realised the need to transform its business operations to maintain its competitive position. With its diverse operations, including technical service centres, warehouses across multiple locations,…
Silvertree invests over R20m in first seven months of 2015
Silvertree Internet Holdings has invested over R20m in existing and new consumer-focused technology companies in the first seven months of 2015, and has seen month-on-month revenue growth of over 10% across the portfolio in 2015, and as much as 40%…
Terragon Group releases Digital Insights on the Nigerian Banking Industry
The Terragon Group has released its Research Report, which highlights digital insights on the Nigerian banking industry. The research, which was based on analysis carried out for a period of three months, focuses on key activities carried out by the…
HDS recognised for bringing secure cloud portfolio to Africa
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has been named a winner of the TMC 2015 Cloud Computing Excellence Awards for its advanced Hitachi Content Platform portfolio, including Hitachi Content Platform, Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere and Hitachi Data Ingestor. Presented by Cloud Computing…
30 key technologies and their impact on business performance
Gartner’s “Hype Cycle for ICT in Africa, 2015” report identifies over 30 key technologies and describes how they will impact business performance during the next 10 years. “The Hype Cycle (see Figure 1) aims to help global strategic officers and…
