The (very near) future of insurance: The digital transformation imperative
Darrel Orsmond, Financial Services Industry Head at SAP Africa By DARREL ORSMOND THE insurance industry is facing its very own Kodak moment. Forty years after the once heart-warming 1970s ad slogan became part of popular culture, it now reminds one more of the company’s spectacular failure to act in the face of massive industry-wide disruption More...
Tangible outcomes for actual African problems
Amr Kamel Microsoft General Manager Central, East and West Africa & Indian Ocean Islands By Amr Kamel How innovative healthcare technologies are impacting the continent DEVELOPMENT in Africa has had a long history More...
Bond Investment, is your portfolio actively involved?
James Turp is a Portfolio Manager at Absa Active Asset Management By James Turp FIXED income is a crucial cornerstone of any financial plan to grow long-term wealth. Bonds have, historically been the more stable More...
The robot revolution!
Reshaad Sha – Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Director at Dark Fiber Africa By Reshaad Sha,- (CAJ News)-MACHINE learning is going to fundamentally alter our world for the better, improving healthcare, More...
Artificial Intelligence’s Poker face – time to fold or call its bluff?
Dr. Roze Phillips, Managing Director for Accenture Consulting By Dr. Roze Phillips MOST of us get how a machine can beat a human at Jeopardy and Go. But what does it say about the learning capability of machines More...
The Thing about Millennials and Technology
Steve TzikakisSAP President EMEA South by Steve Tzikakis SAP President EMEA South 25 years ago, I went to work for the first time with a hand-held device in my hand: a Casio calculator. I thought I was the More...
What’s making the enterprise Wi-Fi market tick?
Riaan Graham Sales Director for Ruckus Wireless sub-Saharan Africa By Riaan Graham LIKE the businesses it supports, the enterprise wireless market is seeing a huge amount of transformation. Many factors and increasing More...
The evolution of wireless technologies
Dmitry Okorokov, CEO of InfiNet Wireless IMAGE SUPPLIED By Dmitry Okorokov FOR more than 20 years there have been rumblings in the industry that wireless technology will be replaced with 2G, 3G, 4G, 4G LTE and 5G. More...
The sun shines on Africa
Dinesh Buldoo, Director, Transmission and Distribution, WSP, Africa Research gestures that by tapping into renewable resources, there would be a 27% reduction in carbon emissions, from 695Mt per year of CO2 to 507Mt More...
From helpdesk to service desk:The evolution of the contact centre
Jed Hewson By Jed Hewson A company’s helpdesk has a very important role to play in the business. It is the first – and often only – point of contact for answering users’ questions. Today, an increasing More...