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SAP & IBM Partner to Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Adoption
SAP has selected IBM as a premier strategic provider of Cloud infrastructure services for its business critical applications. According to both parties the move has been made in order to accelerate customers’ ability to run core business in the cloud.…
IBM Watson goes live in Africa
IBM and Metropolitan Health revealed the first commercial application of Watson in Africa. According to IBM, its Watson application is a ground breaking computing platform able to interact in natural language. By tapping into the power of Watson, Metropolitan Health…
Botswana: Orange & Ericsson partner for improved service
Orange Botswana has entered into a multi-year managed services agreement with Ericsson. Through this agreement, Ericsson will manage network operations for Orange Botswana. According to both parties, this is an effort by Orange to optimise its network and IT operations…
SAP Named Enterprise Mobile Management Leader
SAP SE has revealed that industry analyst firms Forrester Research, Inc. and IDC have named SAP a leader for enterprise mobile management (EMM) in their recently published reports, with the SAP Mobile Secure portfolio achieving a Leader position in…
Oracle reveals initiative to up IT skills in Africa
Oracle has revealed an initiative designed to enrich and increase the skills capacity of IT practitioners in Africa. The four-pronged program has been devised as a response to the rapid adoption of new technologies by governments and businesses in Africa,…
Ghana: AfricaOnline launches managed service solution
Gondwana International Networks’ (GIN) AfricaOnline business has unveiled a managed infrastructure and services solution in Ghana. The new SME product offering, iManage, has been done in conjunction with managed services company, SevenC Computing. Winston Smith, General Manager, Terrestrial Services for…
Takealot and Kalahari set to merge
Kalahari.com and Takealot have released a statement that reveals that both parties will be merging their operations. According to both parties, the move has been made in order to compete against the likes of online portals such as Amazon and…
Tech4Africa turns five
In 2006, when founder Gareth Knight first conceived Tech4Africa, his vision was to bring SxSW to Africa, so that people wouldn’t have to travel to Austin to soak up the knowledge, inspiration and networking it is well known for. 2010…
Airtel appoints new execs in Kenya
Bharti Airtel has appointed a handful of new execs for its operation in Kenya. The company has appointed Topyster Muga and Venkateshwaran Ramakrishnan as the new heads of Airtel Money and Finance Director respectively. Speaking on the appointments Airtel Kenya…
TomTom Telematics celebrates 15 years of Webfleet
TomTom Telematics this month celebrates the 15th anniversary of Webfleet, its award-winning fleet management platform. Launched in 1999, it has grown to become the most widely-adopted telematics SaaS platform in Europe, providing businesses with actionable insights into fleet operations. Over…
MTN giving away daily surprises to customers
MTN South Africa is celebrating summer with a promotion that will reward customers with daily surprises in the form of free MTN-to-MTN voice minutes, data or content. In essence MTN is giving customers surprises that are valued up to R1…
Telkom’s 200Mbps Mobile Broadband Hitting SA in December
Gadget fans fond of browsing the web on their mobiles will see a big boost in broadband quality as of December 2014. Telkom – a leading South African telecommunications provider – is set to launch LTE Advanced at the end…
Mteto Nyati makes a move to MTN
MTN Group has appointed Mteto Nyati as Group Chief Enterprise Officer, effective 1 October. Nyati joins MTN from Microsoft, where he was General Manager for Middle East and Africa (MEA) Emerging Regions. In this role, he developed and implemented growth…
Dark Fibre Africa wins court ruling for fibre optic network
The Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of Dark Fibre Africa to continue with the building of a fibre optic network in the Msunduzi municipality, located in KZN. The case was filed by Msunduzi Municipality against Dark Fibre Africa in February 2014,…
MTN Business inks partnership with City Lodge
MTN Business signed a partnership deal with the City Lodge Hotel Group to be the group’s connectivity and telecommunications support. This will significantly improve ICT services at the group’s 51 existing hotels in South Africa and one in Botswana, and…
AIS partners with IBM in SA
Assimilated Information Systems (AIS), a provider of software and IT solutions, has joined the IBM PartnerWorld Program as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). The partnership will give the company access to a variety of IBM technologies, tools, and services. “Becoming…
