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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic and the sudden demand for remote work, South African organisations are taking the necessary steps to move their applications to the cloud. To do so effectively, business must seek reliable insights to develop a plan and sound migration strategy. A variety of options from cloud solutions providers allows each […]
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In South Africa, food and beverage manufacturers are hard pressed to seize opportunities for product innovation. To achieve this, the elimination of IT silos between R&D, planning, procurement, manufacturing, sales, and marketing is essential. Enterprise wide visibility of data, business systems, and processes must be available to all key players. A product lifecycle management (PLM) […]
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Chris Hewitt, iOCO Solutions Manager, explains why a robust cash management system is crucial in Covid times. Managing cashflow has always been important to ensure prosperity and sustainability. This has become more critical than ever under the current conditions of global economic uncertainty due to Covid-19. It is a grim but realistic prediction that millions […]
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