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SAIPA: Accountants must Pioneer AI Solutions
There’s been much talk in the press about the robotisation of accounting and how artificial intelligence (AI) will inevitably make professional accountants obsolete. According to Faith Ngwenya, Technical and Standards Executive at the South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA),…
Embracing AI in Africa is crucial
With the right mix of policies, Africa and its citizens can reap the benefits of Artificial Intelligence transformations in the years to come. This is according to the findings of a new AI in Africa white paper which has been…
Top 5 trends set to impact African telcos in 2019 and beyond
Africa’s appetite for communications technology remains undimmed. Coming late to the telecommunications party, in a way, has proved to be advantageous: in many cases, African economies have been able to leapfrog directly to the latest technology, unhampered by the need…
How artificial intelligence is starting to impact on your everyday life
The term ‘artificial intelligence’ has become somewhat of a buzzword in the past few years. But does this emerging technology have any tangible benefits for the everyday consumer? It’s a term cloaked in mystery, awe, and misunderstanding, and not much…
Top 10 personal technologies to support digital business
The idea of an assistant that can schedule meetings and arrange a calendar, order lunch and remind you that you need to leave the office before 4:30 on Thursday to make it across the city to dinner with colleagues doesn’t…
Skills development is key to Industry 4.0
The Fourth industrial revolution has the potential to disrupt every industry in every country through large-scale automation, adoption of emergent technologies, big data and artificial intelligence. According to Chief Director of Future Production Technologies at the Department of Trade and Industry…
South Africa gets digital asset trading platform
VALR, a digital asset platform has announced plans to launch a new digital asset trading platform in South Africa, leveraging Bittrex’s technology, to offer customers a trading option. Registrations to be part of a limited-access launch open on Thursday, 06…
These are the tech innovations to get excited about in 2019
2018 was incredibly exciting for the technology sector which has seen myriad advancements. These include the fundamentals of artificial intelligence (AI) being established, robots helping around the house and consumer electronic innovations such as TVs that are so thin, they…
Internet of Things Artificial Intelligence: The future
A simple gesture. A world built from accessible assets that drive human convenience and interaction. This is the future that’s powered by the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), two of the planet’s hottest topic trends right now…
Veritas uses AI to predict and prevent downtime
Veritas Technologies, enterprise data protection and the software-defined storage market, today announced the launch of Veritas Predictive Insights, a new solution that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms to deliver always-on proactive support. Utilizing years of encrypted…
How will Automation, AI and IoT shape user experience?
According to Gartner, customer experience (CX) – more than products or solutions – is the new battlefront for business, with 81% of marketers saying that by 2020 they expect to be competing mostly or completely on the basis of CX.…
Edge computing will come of age in 2019
Christian Mahncke, Enterprise Business Development at Routed, Africa’s only vendor neutral cloud infrastructure provider, says that disruption will continue to dominate the technology landscape as 2019 approaches. Supporting Gartner’s predictions, Mahncke says that computing will extend well beyond centralised facilities…
The ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Mention the words ‘Artificial Intelligence’ around your family dinner table and talk inevitably turns to a Terminator-like future, where machines become our masters and quantum-computers dictate our lives. Many people still think of AI as a semi-futuristic concept, the premise…
Populating your organisation in the face of rapidly-advancing technology
Society is currently experiencing the beginnings of a revolution that will fundamentally change the way we in South Africa live, work and relate to one another. Driven by technology, this transformation presents diverse and fascinating challenges – as well as…
Gartner identifies the Human Touch as the strongest element in AI
CIOs need to prepare workers for a future in which people do more creative and impactful work because they no longer have to perform many routine and repetitive tasks, according to Gartner, Inc. People and machines are entering a new era of learning in which artificial intelligence (AI) augments ordinary intelligence and…
Oracle accelerates digital transformation in South Africa with new innovation hub
Reinforcing its commitment to South Africa, Oracle today announced the opening of an Innovation Hub in Johannesburg, a first for Oracle in Africa that will help drive the adoption of emerging technologies across the country’s corporates, public sector and academia.…
