Most of us have seen the statistics: South Africa’s dismal unemployment rate has been sitting at around the 30% mark for a decade, with the latest figures indicating that 34,5% of people in the country are sitting at home without work. The youth are the hardest hit, with 63,9% of those aged 15-24 being unemployed, […]
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OpenText names iOCO 2023 Partner of the Year
OpenText has named iOCO 2023 Partner of the Year for overall contribution to OpenText Digital Operations Management and Cyber Security Business. The announcement was made at the Channel Executive Breakfast event held on 7 September. This award is testament to iOCO’s unwavering dedication and exceptional contribution to our partnership. According to Nathalie Ing Gussmann, OpenText Channel Manager for […]
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Truth or dare: Should we trust artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence (AI) can directly or indirectly affect cyber security in a multitude of ways, with various examples of ChatGPT exposing corporate data. One such case is that of Samsung, which allowed engineers at its semiconductor division to use ChatGPT to help fix problems with source code. The employees mistakenly entered top-secret data for a new programme, and […]
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Let’s get real: AI is part of our here and now
Let’s kick off by positioning artificial intelligence (AI) – not just in the cyber security and automation space, but in our everyday lives. It’s easy to think you are a voyeur in the artificial intelligence (AI) debate, as realistically speaking, what has it got to do with you and your life today – surely, it’s a […]
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iOCO becomes African partner for Jedox EPM software
Jedox, Germany-based provider of performance management software, has appointed iOCO Software Distribution as its African channel partner. According to Jedox, it serves 2 500 organisations acrosss 140 countries and South Africa is its biggest market in Africa. Its s enterprise performance management (EPM) SaaS platfom helps customers with budgeting, planning, forecasting and reporting, giving them […]
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BRICS Future Skills Challenge showcases innovation and talent across five nations
This year’s BRICS Future Skills Challenge covered topics like Robotic Process Automation (RPA), agri-IOT, cyber security, data science, and mobile app development, to name a few. Following a rigorous judging process, the top 15 competitors from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa pitched their concepts in a Dragon’s Den set-up, with five experts on […]
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Fighting the good fight
CIOs have never had more to contend with – or more to offer the business From the person interested in technology pushing for its inclusion in the company’s operations, to the IT manager reporting to the Financial Director, to today’s strategic technology leaders whose voices are heard at board level, the role of the CIO […]
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AI in software testing – friend or foe?
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are changing the face of software development and testing, promising to speed up the development and release of quality software. But for many people, AI also appears to pose a threat to the software testing practice as a whole. It should be noted that testers have been expressing similar […]
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The fix to broken software? Proper testing
‘Broken software’ has been a hot topic at many software development conferences around the world in recent years, with stakeholders pondering why the agile approach to development is not meeting expectations and fixing bugs fast enough. The agile approach of taking risks, failing fast and iterating may help to optimise solutions, but failing at all […]
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Technology Trends for the Enterprise – What’s in Store for the Rest of 2023?
As we usher in the second half of 2023, enterprise cloud solution providers are looking to expand their focus to business buyers, not just IT/development teams. Interestingly, Gartner® notes in its Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023 presentation[1], given by Gartner analysts at its 2022 IT Symposia globally, “senior IT and business leaders need […]
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