Technology is progressing exponentially and with the arrival of local hyperscale availability, the cloud brings significant opportunities to the commercial industry. The market is moving swiftly towards business functions being consumed as applications that are used as a service and delivered in the cloud. Business that wish to keep up with the technological revolution therefore […]
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Caterpillar – Elevating its Supply Chain with Technology
Caterpillar (CAT) recently successfully elevated its supply chain visibility to network collaboration. Using Infor Nexus’ real-time supply chain management visibility solution, it has combined SCM with the internet of things (IoT) and geo-fencing for true clarity. With this technology, CAT and its customers know exactly where machines are, if they are on time and when […]
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Cash Management Made Easy – Revolutionising Finance
Many organisations experience real challenges when it comes to insufficient insight into their actual cash position. When managing cash forecasting manually on spreadsheets with no real-time data at hand, management often faces difficulties in making sound, vital company decisions. In a recent webinar given by Bob Stark, Vice President of Strategy for Infor Treasury, Stark […]
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How EOH CEO Stephen van Coller would run SA
BusinessLive questions EOH CEO, Stephen van Coller, on his top tip for doing a deal, how he copes with load-shedding and his biggest regret. This is what he had to say: What’s your one top tip for doing a deal? Early on, find out the opposite party’s real motivation for doing the deal. Makes negotiation […]
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iOCO achieves AWS End-User Computing Competency status
We have achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) End-User Computing (EUC) Competency status. As one of the first AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners in Sub-Saharan Africa to do so, this designation recognises that we provide deep expertise in supporting customers that need to provision, protect and get intelligence from end-point devices, end-user apps and data on […]
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iOCO joins the Google Cloud Partner programme
We are proud to announce that we are now a Google Cloud Distributor Authorised Reseller (DAR), in partnership with Google Cloud’s distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa, Digicloud Africa. DARs demonstrate deep cloud solution development and delivery expertise, and have extensive certifications confirming their skills and knowledge of Google Cloud. We have passed all formal requirements set […]
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What I learnt from EOH about preventing corruption
In 2017, digital services company EOH was a market favourite trading at R170 a share. It was then hit by a series of corruption charges and the share price imploded. Current CEO Stephen van Coller reflects here on what he has learnt about corruption during a traumatic two years at the helm. One of the […]
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The Power of a Value-based Strategy
Around the world, there are increasing calls for purpose beyond profit. In South Africa, these calls are especially loud – and they are related to the President’s idea of a social contract between business, government, and labour. But in the face of tough market pressures and relentless shareholder demands, how is it really achievable? How […]
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Thinking differently starts with collaborating differently
Vanilla Ice told everyone to ‘stop, collaborate and listen’ because he had a brand new invention. He may have been a one hit wonder, but perhaps Vanilla’s advice is worth considering. Sometimes we really do need to stop, think differently, listen, and collaborate. There are amazing opportunities to create some unique and powerful tools and solutions […]
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