COVID-19 has disrupted the world of work. Businesses now have no choice but to equip their people to work from home and provide the tools to be productive without compromising on security and compliance. However, this is challenging to achieve when an organisation is dependent on legacy infrastructure and isn’t cloud ready. Many companies have […]
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iOCO Streamlines Invicta’s Financial Reporting and Consolidation Processes
iOCO’s implementation of Certent CDM and IBM Cognos Controller at lnvicta Holdings (lnvicta) has helped to automate and streamline the entire financial reporting process, from the consolidation of results to the statutory reporting thereof. About lnvicta lnvicta Holdings is an investment holding and management company for a group of companies which are leaders in the […]
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Dormac Achieves Operational Excellence with Infor
Dormac is a division of Southey Holdings, which is the driving force behind a diverse and growing number of independent and autonomous businesses. It represents one of the largest and most respected privately-owned groups in South Africa. Dormac Marine & Engineering provides a full spectrum of ship repair and specialised engineering services to owners and […]
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Electronic Signatures Empower a Remote Workforce
In the long-forgotten pre-COVID world, electronic signature solutions were considered a “nice to have” by many South African businesses. Why not print and hand deliver documents for signature? After all, this is more secure… isn’t it? In a locked-down economy, the value of innovative technology has certainly come to the fore as remote workforces endeavour […]
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What is CRM and why do you need it?
Gartner predicts that CRM will be the single largest revenue area of spending in enterprise software by 2021. Do you have an effective strategy for the future? According to Salesforce, “Customer relationship management (CRM) is a technology for managing all your company’s relationships and interactions with customers and potential customers. The goal is simple: Improve […]
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Increase Efficiencies with Salesforce CRM
The right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool will turn leads into wins, boosting sales and promoting business growth. Here’s how Salesforce CRM increases efficiencies across the board for sales and service teams… CRM for Business Users Productivity hinges on meeting people where they’re at. When businesses can sell the way they want to, while also […]
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Michael Brink, CTO of CA Southern Africa shares technology insights and explains what it is like to ‘Have your 3D Printed Cake but not Eat it’. In keeping with the necessary lock down regulations in SA at present, my colleagues and I at CA Southern Africa hosted a virtual retirement farewell for a team-mate who […]
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XBRL: Meeting Digital Financial Reporting Requirements
What is “XBRL”? The acronym stands for “eXtensible Business Reporting Language”. According to iOCO, “XBRL is a freely available electronic language for financial reporting that is based on Extensible Markup Language (XML) and is produced and consumed by XBRL-enabled software.” Since 1 July 2018, the Companies and Intellectual Properties Commission (CIPC) has enforced its right […]
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How to Embrace Financial Reporting in the Cloud
If your Financial Reporting process consists of manic monthly “fire-drills”, comprising time-consuming manual efforts, it’s time to embrace the Cloud. Earnings are becoming more volatile, data is changing at the speed of light, and management requires reports that deliver insights and are easy to analyse, rather than documents thrown together to meet a deadline, containing […]
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COVID-19, the Looming Recession and the Role of Open Source
The COVID-19 outbreak has been devastating global markets since the Coronavirus spread to the rest of the world in mid-January. Now with more than 170 countries reporting infections, many market signs are pointing to an economic downturn, similar or worse in scale to that of the recession in 2008. We’ve been thinking about the future […]
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