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September 7, 2017 •
East Africa, North Africa, Opinion, Software, Southern Africa, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
Comments Off on Four guardians that guide software development
Speed, efficiency and constant disruption are what characterise and define today’s business environment. For those that cannot innovate, adapt and respond quickly to the market, survival is dubious (at best). Within the realm of enterprise software...
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September 3, 2017 •
East Africa, Lists, North Africa, Security, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on How to protect your PC system from viruses
Virus threats have always been around the cyber community affecting not only their security but causing data loss as well. Virus threats in the form of ransomware, spyware, adware, Trojans, phishing attempts and much more have caused a serious threat to users...
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August 4, 2017 •
General, Software, Sponsored •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on 7 traits to look for in an SD-WAN provider
Software-defined Wide Area Networks (WAN) have certainly captured the attention of CIOs across nearly every industry, promising greater control over WAN infrastructure and the application traffic that’s traversing the network. Unlike legacy WAN...
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August 3, 2017 •
General, Software •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on AI To Be In All Software By 2020- Gartner
Market analyst firm, Gartner, predicts that Artificial Intelligence will be a constant in every software by 2020. In January 2016 the firm stated that the term “artificial intelligence” was not in the top 100 search terms on gartner.com...
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July 25, 2017 •
Opinion, Security, Software •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
Comments Off on Is your payroll data protected against cyber-crime
According to the 2017 Trustwave Global Security Report, gangs of cyber-criminals prefer to target commonly used software platforms with known vulnerabilities. Corporate and internal networks, as well as point-of-sale (POS) systems are most at risk, falling...
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July 20, 2017 •
General, Opinion, Software •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on Why you should consider tailoring your software
For a growing business, there are two kinds of solutions: One-size-fits-all generic solutions with limited capability or find solutions tailored to your specific industry that might be more expensive. If you’re running a business, you have to balance the...
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May 30, 2017 •
Security, Software, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on SA Company To Use Artificial Intelligence To Predict Crime
Stop crime before it even happens? Sounds a bit far fetched due to the unpredictable nature of the beast but Cape-Town based software and solution developer, Solution House Software, may have just cracked the code. Designed to predict and map potential...
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May 11, 2017 •
Big Data, Software, Sponsored •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on Westcon-Comstor’s SAP Platform to Benefit Vendors, Solution Providers
Westcon-Comstor, the leading value-added global distributor of security, unified communications, network infrastructure and data centre solutions, today announced that its global SAP roll-out has been completed and the company is running live on the...
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April 19, 2017 •
Opinion, Software •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on What you need to know when shopping for an ERP system
No matter if you develop business software, cars or washing machines, companies face relentless pressure to enable new business opportunities and user experiences. But as important as it is to keep pace with the demands of a changing market, companies need to...
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March 29, 2017 •
Opinion, Software •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on Simplify your operations with SD-WAN
For the past twenty years, the hardware-centric and Command Line Interface (CLI) driven approach to architecting and managing an enterprise network has remained unchanged. This wasn’t a problem when the network was predictable, had one egress to the...
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March 2, 2017 •
Opinion, Software •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on Using automation to unleash faster, continuous application delivery
Automated software testing is emerging as one of the most important aspects of one’s DevOps approach, becoming vital in the quest to better manage the lifecycle of applications. Consider that the vast majority of the man-hours (and the costs) of...
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January 28, 2017 •
Software, Top Stories, West Africa •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on Nigeria calls for investment in local software
The Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), President James Emadoye has called on the Bank of Industry in Nigeria to come out and create a software Business Desk with a $16,350 million US (N5 Billion) revolving loan to develop the software...
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January 27, 2017 •
Software, Top Stories, West Africa •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on Insurance software tailor-made for the Nigerian market
ATB TechSoft Solutions, a Nigerian software company has reinforced their belief in Nigerian software and their engineers with the announcement of their locally made product, Ultisure. Mr. Abiodun Atobatele, the Chief Executive Officer of the company announced...
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January 26, 2017 •
Security, Software, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on Lepide partners with Refresh Networks to promote SA growth
Lepide, a software company that provides auditing solutions engineered to help organisations with all their security, systems management and compliance challenges, has announced a partnership with Refresh Networks, South Africa specialists in providing...
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July 13, 2016 •
Features, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on From an Idea to an App – How not to fail
Apps fail all the time and so do ideas. It is agonizing if you are the conceiver of the idea or the developer behind the app and it’s even worse if you are both. The numbers tell me a tale that 60 % of Apps don’t even manage to break even on their...
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June 27, 2016 •
East Africa, Enterprise, North Africa, Software, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Darryl Linington •
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To say that we’re living in a digital revolution has become a cliché at this point. But with every day that passes, it becomes more true. We can order taxi service, deposit checks, and lock our front door via apps on our phones. When driving, we may have...
