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Weaving data into the organisational culture tapestry
Culture is defined as the ideas, customs and social behaviour of a particular population or society. The word is derived from the Latin ‘cultura’, stemming from ‘colere’, meaning 'to cultivate’. It generally refers to patterns...
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Application modernisation
Application modernisation
Get your legacy apps to play well with modern technology Today’s businesses are operating in an entirely new digital arena, but they still continue to rely on monolithic legacy systems. In fact, 31% of an...
Doing digital transformation right
Doing digital transformation right
Doing digital transformation right
By Brian Harding, Head of iOCO Digital Digital transformation has been a business buzzword for many years now, but while most organisations have already embarked on the journey, they often forget that digital transformation always...
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CA Southern Africa reveals Perfecto’s best practices for high-velocity testing
Speeding up software testing does not have to mean starting from scratch – the best way to accelerate it is by optimising current testing strategy. Perfecto is the key to achieving faster testing. This is...
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Data discovery: Scoping the solution
In my first column, I looked at the challenges that organisations face when it comes to collecting, storing and then using data. Significant as these challenges are, they must be overcome because data offers the...
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Data discovery is where it all begins
Do you know what data you have, where it is and who is using it? If not, you are on a highway of pain on several fronts. Data has become the key corporate lever for...
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CA Southern Africa, Veracode best practices for container security
As cyber security risks steadily increase, application security has become crucial. That means secure coding practices must be part of every developer’s skillset, says Craig De Lucchi, CA Southern Africa, Account Director. How code is...
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Adoption of software containers has risen dramatically as more organisations realise the benefits of this virtualised technology
Container security is a fairly new technology, especially when viewed in the context of the speed of light technology changes in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). Container technology itself is a topic that many security...
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Companies need next-gen approach to business continuity
During the pandemic, many organisations embraced a hybrid environment, allowing employees to work from home or anywhere else. Furthermore, many have adopted, or are now implementing infrastructure-modernisation initiatives and digital transformation programmes. These significant changes...
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Assessing data literacy in companies, sales teams
In my first article in this series, I established the critical importance for every sales leader to have effective sales reporting, analytics and eventually advanced analytics. In this article, I will firstly explore building data culture...
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Investing in the future
South Africa’s official joblessness rate is currently at almost 35%, with youth unemployment at 66.5%. While there are many initiatives aiming to help alleviate this situation, the digital sector is currently seeing a skills gap...
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STaaS eliminates the complexity of data management and accelerates digitisation through data-first modernisation
In the modern era of digital transformation, data has become an organisations’ most valuable asset, key to growing revenue and accelerating innovation. This means that modern enterprises must ensure that their data is always on...
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Why Integrate EPM and ERP? The Value Proposition
By Paul Bouchier Sales Director at iOCO, within iOCO Software Distribution, an Infor Gold Partner Every organisation would perform better with access to deeper operational insight. Here, enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions are invaluable for...
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Use analytics to set sales targets that are on point
Whether we know it or not, we are all in sales, from the first line ambassador of the business − the receptionist − through to the CFO and CEO… everybody in the organisation. Without sales...
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Breach and attack simulation: What are the drivers?
Active breach and attack simulation does not gain credibility by exposing more problems; it gains it by contextualising them and continuously testing attack paths.Let’s start by taking a bird’s-eye view of what the global breach...
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The Value of an Effective Data Funnel with d/EPM
Creating an effective and reliable funnel to direct data from enterprise applications into governance, risk and compliance, performance management, and analytics offers immense benefits in today’s data-rich world. If the insights are pulling from a...
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Reduce Spreadsheet Risk, Drive Efficiency with Infor d/EPM
By Paul Bouchier Sales Director at iOCO, within iOCO Software Distribution, an Infor Gold Partner Modernity demands that business leaders leverage data for better and more strategic decision-making. Unfortunately, in many cases analysts still choose...
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You don’t know what you don’t know
Breach and attack simulation is the method that tests everything and replaces speculation with certainty in terms of security posture.What is breach and attack simulation and why does your organisation need it?The simple answer to...
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Change how you do finance
By Varsha Ramesar, Managing Executive, Data and Analytics, iOCO For decades, finance teams steered the business using a rear-view mirror to provide the information they needed to make decisions. New service delivery models, emerging trends,...
Farewell DBA, it’s the age of the DDA
Farewell DBA, it’s the age of the DDA
Accelerated cloud adoption means many of the tasks traditionally assigned to the database administrator can now be done at the click of a button. But while the traditional DBA role may be on its way...
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CA Southern Africa enters into strategic alliance with Perforce Software
CA Southern Africa, the sole sub-Saharan representative of CA Technologies – a Broadcom company – has entered into a strategic alliance with Perforce Software. The relationship is a critical building block in completing CA Southern...
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Arcserve named in KuppingerCole’s 2022 Market Compass Report for cloud backup and recovery
Arcserve Southern Africa has revealed that Arcserve, the world's most experienced provider of backup, recovery and immutable storage solutions for unified data resilience against ransomware and disasters, has announced it has been named in the...
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The backbone of modern board meetings
The business environment has never been more dynamic, or challenging. Organisations have to be able to make fast decisions to stay ahead of competitors and evolving customer needs. While strategy is paramount to keeping an...
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Getting to grips with data
The success or failure of a data project relies on the organisation's ability to move from raw data to an analytics-ready state. By Kevin van der Merwe, Sales Director at iOCO Qlik. In this second...
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Data backup is increasingly a front-burner issue
The wrong storage architecture can send your company’s application modernisation strategy back to the dark ages.By Byron Horn-Botha, Business unit head, Arcserve Southern Africa.The application modernisation services market is forecast to expand from $11.4 billion...
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Mainframe security – business continuity through Broadcom, CA Southern Africa
Business continuity covers a lot of ground, ranging from facilities management to staffing, but it typically goes back to disaster recovery. While that focus is important, the ability to keep companies up and running no...
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Data: Does your firm speak business’s new lingo?
Why data literacy is so important, what the current state of play is, and how to start the journey towards becoming a truly data-driven enterprise. If your firm − and that means everybody in it...
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CA Southern Africa reveals Broadcom’s winning strategy for mainframe compliance, transparency, reporting
Leaders need to be at the top of their game if they are to make mainframe compliance and security part of a winning business strategy. This is according to Dolf Snyman, Account Director at CA...
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Cloud Provider Leverages VMware To Build Any Cloud-as-a-Service
"VMware is a major part of our hosted cloud platform. iOCO is front and center of this and a massive part of our technical landscape. The ongoing investment into VMware offerings and solutions like CloudHealth...
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EPM and modern business
In a digital world, unlocking opportunities for today's enterprise requires businesses to leverage financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting; consistently deliver workforce planning and budgeting; take advantage of sales planning with in-depth analysis; and monitor capital...
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Migrating the enterprise data warehouse to the cloud
Cloud-based enterprise data warehouses have flexibility and capabilities that are usually not present in on-premises solutions, but require a strategic approach. Let’s get one thing out of the way upfront: today it’s not a matter...
Finance has become a data game
Finance has become a data game
By Varsha Ramesar, Managing Executive, Data and Analytics The data revolution has fundamentally changed the role of the finance professional as we know it. In order to continue to be seen as a value-added service...
Exceptional healthcare solutions built on an exceptional platform
Exceptional healthcare solutions built on an exceptional platform
Exceptional healthcare solutions built on an exceptional platform
Covid-19 has presented a health crisis the likes of which the world hasn’t seen since the outbreak of the Spanish Flu in 1918. From January 1918 to December 1920, this virus infected an estimated 500 million...
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How modern, intelligent tools drive dynamic enterprise performance management
In a digital world, unlocking opportunities for today’s enterprise requires businesses to leverage financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting; consistently deliver workforce planning and budgeting; take advantage of sales planning with in-depth analysis; and monitor capital...
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Six Reasons Why Clients Choose Infor d/EPM
As the world innovates, the demands on real-time information, total integration, and instant (informed) decision-making power are constantly and exponentially increasing. The reality is that today’s decision makers need integrated information at their fingertips. According...
Data-driven planning and budgeting
Data-driven planning and budgeting
Data-driven planning and budgeting
Data-driven planning and budgeting By Janro Grey, FPM Solution Delivery Manager, iOCO Data and Analytics You might have heard the saying that if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. An organisation’s ability...
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Are you ready for the drone economy?
Are you ready for the drone economy? By Dean Conde, UTM Lead, iOCO Digital Of all the technologies to have emerged in recent decades, one has impacted a surprising number of industries: Drones. While still in...
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Healthcare is now the industry most targeted by hackers
Global reports indicate that healthcare data breaches reached a record high in 2021. Indeed, healthcare now sees more cyberattacks than any other industry. Fully one-third of all cyberattacks are aimed at healthcare institutions. Why? Because...
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Innovate at speed and scale
In a world today, organisations can’t afford delays in the delivery of their solutions, nor in accessing the technologies that enable them to service their customers. Unfortunately, many have to choose between quality and speed...
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Moving to the Cloud is only the First Step
So many options ahead of you… During many of our cloud advisory engagements, we’ve seen customers start their cloud journeys but get stuck in a quagmire of how to progress next. Many organisations have moved...
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Why analytics is crucial for CFOs today
iOCO’s Adriaan Rossouw reveals how analytics helps CFOs tackle assumptions and move on business moments. Over the past three years, business and financial leaders have learned that the concept of business as usual doesn’t exist...
The Digital Frontier and why businesses need to pay attention to web 3.0
The Digital Frontier and why businesses need to pay attention to web 3.0
Alex Pryor - Head of Digital Innovation at EOH June 2022 Technology is changing at a rapid pace, and those who do not educate themselves on the changes are liable to be overtaken by them....
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Beware the bevy of black swans
At a time of unprecedented black swan events, a good data protection strategy remains absolutely priceless for all companies. By Byron Horn-Botha, Business unit head, Arcserve Southern Africa. Early in 2022, the British Chambers of...
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Immutable e-mail archives reveal ‘gold mine’ of fraud information
Immutable e-mail archives hold a ‘gold mine’ of information relating to white collar crime and corruption, enabling organisations to discipline, prosecute and root out the culprits. This is according to experts addressing a webinar hosted...
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Arcserve introduces N Series appliances, offering enterprise-level integrated data protection, recovery, cyber security
Allows customers to simplify their IT environments and secure data with all-in-one scale-out backup and recovery appliances. Issued by Blain Communications for Arcserve Southern Africa Arcserve Southern Africa has revealed that Arcserve, the world's most...
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Warehouse Management and the Power of Synergy with Labour, Task Management and Logistics
In the past, effective control, communication, and coordination were enough for warehouse management to find great success. While these are still critical, today, warehouse management systems (WMS) must deliver agility and usability to yield real...
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Enterprise data requires persistent protection
Low-cost data storage, combined with elastic computation and data analytics services, shift big data deployments from on-premises to the cloud. By Charl Behrens, Principal technical consultant (security), iOCO Application Management. Gartner defines data security as...
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Embarking on the OT cybersecurity journey
By Sunjay Ramessur, Cybersecurity Specialist at iOCO Advisory While most of us are familiar with cybersecurity processes related to information technology (IT), the same cannot be said of those relating to operational technology (OT). This...
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PR – Modern ERP Driving Integration and Process Excellence in Manufacturing
In today’s fast moving, quick changing, increasingly competitive business environment, good enough is no longer good enough. Manufacturers must achieve enterprise-wide visibility, total collaborate, agility and flexibility to respond to a changing market and grow....
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Safe acceleration of cloud migration is crucial
Data-centric security must be embedded across hybrid IT, so that risk to sensitive data is reduced and safe migration to cloud environments is accelerated. By Charl Behrens, Principal technical consultant (security), iOCO Application Management. A...
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African Tech Voices: Africa has a major opportunity to play leapfrog when it comes to data integration
My previous article made the case for data integration within the context of business’s need to compete in a fast-changing global marketplace. Now I want to look more specifically at why data governance is so...
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Infor WMS offers complete, best-in-class WMS Solution
By Paul BouchierSales Director at iOCO, within iOCO Software Distribution, an Infor Gold PartnerIn modern warehouse management, the need to support omni-channel commerce (B2B/B2C) from a single site cannot be overstated. Warehouses today face greater...
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Modern ERP Revolutionising Manufacturing Operations
Today, new business models, products, locations, and regulatory concerns are driving change across the manufacturing industry. Old technology simply can’t support businesses in the new environment.Flexibility to Support Growth As businesses change through the years,...
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‘Connected information’ really is power
Technology can help turn sales and debtors books into powerful tools to grow profits and build customer loyalty. By Jon Mantel, Account manager, iOCO Qlik, Western Cape. In my previous article, I argued that with...
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African Tech Voices: Future proofing Africa’s data integration investment
According to McKinsey Africa is the World’s Next Big Growth Market, despite misperceptions that the continent lags in the technology area. In fact, the continent has become an eager adopter and innovator in all things...
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Seeing in the dark
Businesses globally have been moving to the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model even for core applications, over several years. Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the emergence of a hybrid working model that...
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ASSET Technology Group – OpenText Outstanding Partner Award of the Year for the Middle East
Congratulations to ASSET Technology Group, one of our sister companies headquartered in Egypt, who were awarded the OpenText Outstanding Partner Award of the Year for the Middle East. Congratulations Tamer and Essam. Well done and...
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The importance of data resilience in an unsafe world
It's not an exaggeration to say data is the lifeblood of every business today − it is an immense, if not the most valuable, asset in all companies. Data resilience can be defined as the...
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Zero-trust security must include data backup and recovery
Who can you trust? The straight answer to that question is – nobody. Unfortunately, in today's digital world, the reality of the situation is that the old security maxim of 'trust but verify' is no...
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Broadcom’s industry-leading AI, security, hybrid cloud solutions accelerate client value on new z16 Mainframe
CA Southern Africa, the sole sub-Saharan representative of Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO), has announced the global technology leader’s expansion of opportunities for organisations to acquire greater value from the company’s advanced AI, security and hybrid cloud solutions...
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Exploring the numbers equals better decision-making
What CFO doesn't want to unlock the hidden gems/insights buried in their general ledgers? By Jon Mantel, Account manager, iOCO Qlik, Western Cape. Getting data-driven, business-critical information into the hands of CFOs and their fellow...
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iOCO Cloud leverages VMware to build its any cloud-as-a-service offering
iOCO Cloud offers cloud services to customers through its hosted cloud services built on VMware technologies. Services that today allow customers to build a multi-and hybrid cloud environment, and with the help of the interoperability...
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CA Southern Africa to deliver Broadcom’s AppNeta industry-leading monitoring solution to SA market
CA Southern Africa has revealed that following Broadcom’s acquisition of AppNeta – finalised in February this year – it will also deliver AppNeta’s network performance and end-user experience monitoring solution to the SA market, in...
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iOCO Cloud’s any cloud-as-a-service simplifies multi-cloud solutions with VMware
iOCO Cloud, a division of iOCO, the ICT services arm of the EOH Group, is leveraging its VMware Cloud Provider Partner (VCPP) status to enable customers to centralise the deployment of both multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud...
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A ransomware crisis plan is now a business imperative
Most organisations today are aware of the ransomware threat. Unfortunately, the gap between awareness and broad, company-wide action to mitigate the impacts of ransomware is still far too significant. Cyber criminals around the world have...
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Unified data framework delivers insight and control
We live in a world consumed by data that informs and controls us every day. In this world, the regulatory landscape has become a veritable minefield of constraints that are ignored at your peril. The...
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Arcserve enhances key ransomware defence solution
Arcserve Southern Africa has revealed that Arcserve, the world's leading ransomware protection and data resilience provider, has announced the availability of Arcserve Backup 19, an enhanced version of its widely adopted tape air gapping solution....
Cloud Adoption Framework
With a cloud-agnostic solution, iOCO has taken what all the providers offer and defined a unique approach. With years of cloud expertise in everything from private, to hosted, to hyperscale cloud through various partnerships, iOCO has developed a framework that includes all important aspects for a company to engage on their cloud journey.
Cloud Adoption Framework
Cloud Adoption FrameworkThere are several different variations to the Cloud Adoption Framework. It seems like every hyperscale cloud provider has their own iteration of this. If you do a Google search for Cloud Adoption Framework,...
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Artificial intelligence bringing precision and speed to the production line
With the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI) technology integrated with modern cloud platforms, embedding AI into business processes is no longer an expensive or lengthy process. is Automotive industry leaders are displaying a rapid...
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Application automation: Game-changer in the world of analytics
As noted in my previous article, automation throughout the analytics pipeline is the backbone of a system capable of real-time, hyper-contextual information and analysis.But beyond enabling faster, smarter acquisition-to-insight, automation holds the promise of even...
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Succeeding in Work in 2022 – What to Stop, Start, and Strive For
To succeed in Human Capital Management (HCM), creating an agile people strategy in an uncertain world is critical. As markets recover, managing increasing workloads while facing the consequences of the pandemic increases risks of burn-out,...
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When cloud, data, privacy and governance intersect
According to Forbes, 90% of the world’s data was created in the last two years alone, with each one of us being said to create1.7 megabytes of data every second. With this data explosion and...
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Want an on-premises cloud-like experience? A XaaS platform brings you cloud-based economics on-premises
The most annoying thing about IT is that there is no single version of the truth. Usually, the form is defined by the function, but the cloud hype drummed up by the global marketing thrust...
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Embrace the future with an API-first approach
In 2002, Jeff Bezos issued what is now known as the API mandate: ‘The new direction at Amazon is that all capabilities will be designed and exposed as APIs’. This is an early version of...
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World Backup Day, 31 March – businesses must backup and plan for recovery
As businesses globally are reminded about the importance of data backup during World Backup Day, the world's leading ransomware and data resilience provider stresses that recovery can often be the missing part of the successful...
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Automation is backbone of trusted data analytics pipeline
As analysis becomes increasingly crucial for business, data analysts, developers and business users alike are encountering stumbling blocks and disconnects in their quest for real-time, trusted data that delivers insights and action at the speed...
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Digitisation in Mining
Technology is fast becoming a source of competitive advantage and the convergence of the digital and physical worlds is one of the fundamental aspects underlying the digital transformation of business and the economy... Download Whitepaper
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Modernise with the cloud that comes to you – why companies are choosing on-premise cloud-like solutions
By now, you should be well familiar with this story: digital transformation is propelling businesses into the modern era, cloud adoption is a necessary element of this transformation, so the recent acceleration of digital transformation...
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Three New Ways of Working in 2022 and Beyond
As the vaccination rollout brings some relief to restrictions, it is time to start thinking about how the world of work should move forward. While the pandemic forced the adoption of new ways of working,...
Add digital product management to your value stream
Companies not traditionally dealing with software as a primary focus of their business can benefit tremendously from adding digital product management (DPM) to their value stream management. That may seem an extraordinary statement at a...
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iOCO Infrastructure Services received the “Partner of the Year award for Cloud Transition” 2021
iOCO Infrastructure Services received the "Partner of the Year award for Cloud Transition" 2021 at the Annual Citrix Kick-Off event held on the 15 March 2022 at Langham Estate.
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Welcome to the 3-2-1-1 world of immutability
As explained in my previous article, immutability is a crucial element of successful ransomware protection as it converts data to a write-once, read many times format, which cannot be altered. This provides enterprises with the...
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Should I stay, or should I go? – HPE GreenLake can solve organisations’ cloud conundrum by bringing the cloud to them
While we may not yet be at the level of some developed countries around the globe in terms of cloud adoption, cloud computing is becoming the new reality for local businesses, with many consuming significant...
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Five ways to protect yourself from cyber-attack during consumer frenzy times
Throughout the year various events occur, such as the recent Valentine’s Day, Black Friday, Halloween, Christmas and so on, all of which prompt a massive increase in online buying as consumers mark the event by...
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Take storage security back to sound basics
I think we all approach a new year with a fairly large degree of optimism and trepidation, with a few resolutions thrown into the mix as we attempt to change how we do things. Criminals...
A digital revolution in the insurance industry
The following article is an edited version of “Digital transformation and the claims process – a history” by Hyland Software, a leading US developer of the enterprise content management (ECM) and process management software suite...
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A ransomware crisis plan is now a business imperative
Most organisations today are aware of the ransomware threat. Unfortunately, the gap between awareness and broad, company-wide action to mitigate the impacts of ransomware is still far too significant. Cyber criminals around the world have...
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How digital product management creates real change
In my previous article, I looked at what digital product management (DPM) actually is and why it is important. The key point is that DPM allows companies to move beyond seeing IT simply as an...
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iOCO named Best Performing Qlik Partner of the Year 2021
Qlik has awarded iOCO Analytics Solutions the prestigious award ‘Best Performing Qlik Partner South Africa 2021’. Nick Loumakis, Regional Director, Qlik, Middle East & Africa, says: “iOCO has displayed a deep commitment to building world-class...
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What is HPE Primera?
Digital transformation and dynamic business models are fast becoming the key to success for many businesses. Data is an invaluable asset that underpins modern digital transformation strategies—data-driven insights can help organisations solve business challenges, make...
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Web 3.0 is coming: What does it mean?
While nobody can be certain how it will impact business and individuals, the world needs to be getting ready for Web 3.0 – the next evolution of the internet. This is according to experts taking...
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Digital transformation and its role in advancing the public sector
Both public service and technological innovation should ultimately result in tangible improvements in people’s lives, whether at the point of daily service delivery or whether larger projects for the greater long-term good are involved. If...
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How artificial intelligence speeds up application delivery
We all interact with some form of artificial intelligence (AI) multiple times a day without even realising it. The applications of AI are too numerous to detail here but I will explain where it is...
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Digital product management: What’s in it for SA businesses?
The beginning is always a good place to start, so, what is digital product management and what does it have to do with value stream management? Let's have a word first from research guru Gartner,...
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Navigating digital transformation
Necessity has indeed sparked invention as organisations have scrambled to adapt to the extraordinary circumstances brought on by the pandemic and the resulting economic downturn. Many have had to fast-track their digital transformation due to...
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Take intelligence to a real-time, active level
We live in an age of disruption where digital transformation no longer cuts the mustard, but rather digital innovation is the requirement. Markets are looking at disruptive technologies that have revolutionised how business is conducted...
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How companies can leverage AI to speed up delivery
There is a considerable amount of hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), as it seems that virtually every discussion around technology and the move to digital and initiatives to enhance services and quality are peppered with...
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iOCO and Skywind Software Group partner to deliver GRC solutions
Automating governance, risk and compliance iOCO, part of the EOH group, has partnered with Skywind Software Group, a leading Israeli provider of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) software, to help international and domestic clients in...
How Infor’s Coleman AI Platform Enables Organisations to Master the Art of Financial Prediction
In economically uncertain times and beyond, mastering the art of financial prediction is not only good for business, but also crucial for survival. To obtain the highest level of valid and reliable financial prediction the...
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Active intelligence creates in-the-moment awareness
Active intelligence is a new paradigm, creating in-the-moment awareness about every aspect of business. It delivers a state of continuous intelligence derived from real-time, up-to-date information designed to trigger immediate actions. Businesses today need a...
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Driving innovation with intelligence and composability
COVID-19 has created massive uncertainty and amplified the need for businesses to advance their digital transformation efforts and innovate to survive. According to Deloitte, many organisations began innovating rapidly immediately after the World Health Organisation declared...
Buy three, get one free. The insights trio are at it again.
The big data, analytics and business intelligence (BI) conversations have changed. They’ve moved on from asking what the business can do with its data, towards how the business can extract real value from this data...
Born in the cloud
What the new generation of cloud-native applications can do, and what happens to those left behind. In the beginning there were mainframes: big, expensive computers that could only do one thing at a time. The...
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Creating competitive advantage through custom, design-led development
Creating competitive advantage through custom, design-led development Traditional drivers of custom software development – building additional revenue streams and cutting costs – consistently motivate our clients. But business sustainability in a constrained economy and a...
Doing the right thing – conscious design in software development
The thing that makes us essentially human is the ability to think for ourselves, to reason, and to make decisions. Yet this cognitive ability risks being compromised by the growing use - and abuse -...
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“Adapt or Die” – enter the API economy
The world is converging, and this convergence is increasingly held together by the API environment. APIs – Application Programming Interfaces – are much talked about, but not always well understood. So let’s begin at the...
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API platforms and an API-first approach to building better external and internal connections
It used to be that getting value from software in a business was mostly about what technologies were available, and your ability to develop those that weren’t. Creativity – choosing how and why to use...
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The future happens all the time
The future happens all the time The future happens all the time. Technology is fuelling a fourth industrial revolution that is exponentially increasing the rate of change and threatening the relevance of all businesses, regardless...
Building your digital workforce
Building your digital workforce (and making humans happier)
Ever since the advent of industrialisation we’ve been fearful that machines are about to put us out of work. In South Africa, in the face of increasing, widespread unemployment, it’s a particularly acute concern. Won’t...
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Cloud-driven transformation
COVID-19 has highlighted the urgency for digital transformation. It has forced organisations to rethink their business strategies to confront the future and remain sustainable and competitive. Technology has enabled many businesses to continue in ways...
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One+One=Three – Why you still need system integrators
Businesses today have a lot of options when it comes to software development. Whether they choose to go the custom, bespoke route, or use out-of-the-box products, there is a level of fine-tuning required to make...
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Digital Trends in Mining
The mining industry is accustomed to operating in an unstable environment: constantly battling a volatile global economy, fuctuations in demand, availability of resources, a shortage of skilled labour, government regulations and social responsibility requirements, all...
High-performance and Flexibility: Why Choose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?
There has never been a better time to claw back expensive capex on traditional IT infrastructure. Today, the world is driving lean operations to survive. Thankfully, moving to the cloud offers immense cost (and other)...
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HCM Technology Driving Employee Productivity
There’s no doubt that productivity is a key contributor to commercial and financial success. It is a driver of efficiency and has the power to transform resources into goods or services, boost economic activity and...
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The power of people and technology creating an agile sustainable future
Covid has drastically and irrevocably changed the way that the world works. Even as South Africa moves forward into semi-normalcy, the looming “fourth wave” reminds businesses of the need to remain agile, embrace remote working...
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How Effective Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Unlocks Operational Value
Effective Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is the cornerstone of any organisation; especially when it comes to successful operations and supply chain value. Asset management is an area that has faced significant challenges due to the...
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Herding cats: The case for application management services
In 2008, Apple coined the slogan, “There's an app for that”, inaugurating the app economy − the proliferation of apps designed for easy use on mobile devices. Apps have become vital ways to deliver the...
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iOCO adds award-winning ManageEngine to its enterprise solution offering
iOCO is proud to announce a new partnership with ITR Technology, sole SA distributor of ManageEngine software, the global award-winning enterprise IT management software developed to make IT professionals’ jobs easier. 90% of Fortune 100...
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What to consider when modernising mainframes
Before I outline key considerations in any mainframe modernisation strategy, let’s confirm why companies must consider modernising their mainframe.The straight answer to this question is that many businesses are now implementing mainframe modernisation strategies because...
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Focus needs to turn to doing AI analytics right as adoption soars
Digital transformation and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) have soared around the world since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, making it increasingly important for organisations to focus on the tools, models and ecosystems in...
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Enhancing the security of your applications
Is software part of how you are delivering value to your customers? But how is your organisation innovating through software? Software adds value, but it also introduces risk. Let’s take the example of Equifax, described...
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Unlocking the value of modernising the ‘big iron’
Far from being on the way out, mainframes − or the ‘big iron’ as they are affectionately known – are reputed to run 30 billion transactions per day, hold 80% of the world’s business data...
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Enabling the future of business today
Together, iOCO and FD offer a complete Microsoft toolbox to #solve any business challenge. With a focus on providing the most effective and most secure solution, our user-centric approach guarantees a smooth transition to the...
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How CFOs can derive significant business benefit from the cloud
For years, conversations around the benefits that the cloud brings to business have centred on innovation and agility, with a focus on how organisations could become and remain more competitive. With the massive changes the...
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AI Powered Analytics for Digital Acceleration
Watch this high level summary of factors that accelerate business, why data and analytics efforts can fail and how AI Powered analytics can enable technology-driven business transformation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cqz5EYLAhQ
Managing Complex IT Environments in the Wake of Covid & Industry 4.0
Today, businesses possibly face the most complicated IT environments that have ever been seen across the globe. In the wake of Industry 4.0, traditional methods simply cost too much, are far too laborious, and result...
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Bolster your ransomware posture with immutable storage
Immutable storage is a crucial tool in the fight against ransomware, as data can’t be overwritten, changed, tampered with, or deleted − even by someone with admin rights. Let's start by explaining what 'immutable storage'...
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Broadcom named an overall market leader in KuppingerCole 2021 Leadership Compass for API Management and Security
CA Southern Africa, the sole sub-Saharan Africa representative of CA Technologies, a Broadcom company, has revealed the results of the KuppingerCole 2021 Leadership Compass for API Management and Security. In this evaluation, Broadcom’s Layer7 API...
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CIO CONNECT: Enabling the Mobile Enterprise
The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend is changing the organisation at many levels, from the users who expect the same ease of use at the office as they have at home, to executives who...
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CIO CONNECT: Data-centricity
The amount of digital data in the world is growing at an exponential rate: doubling every two years, with 44 times more data growth over the next 10 years. This is providing both opportunities and...
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Finding flexibility in the software testing lifecycle
Shift left is unquestionably the way to go in app development, but sometimes it's necessary to incorporate a move to the right, encompassing post-production testing. I have explained that while shift left thinking is crucial...
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CIO as business leader: technology managers a dying breed
CIOs are currently feeling the effects of a tug-of-war – they’re called on to deliver services, but need to figure out a way of doing so while keeping everyone in the business, from the top...
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Exponential organisations are data driven
The term “exponential organisation” came to the fore some years ago when author Salim Ismail outlined new paradigms in organisational design and described businesses that were able to fast-track traditional growth and make 10x the...
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Delivering good customer experience under Zero Trust
In my previous article, I argued that the Zero Trust model was gaining traction because it is so well-suited to the digital and highly-fragmented organisational models that are becoming the norm in business. So far,...
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Embracing the three categories of business intelligence
Companies need to add experimental business intelligence to their curated and federated BI planning, as it’s a high-risk, high-reward arena in the data and analytics space. According to Gartner, business intelligence (BI) platforms enable enterprises...
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Securing the IT perimeter in the new hybrid world of work
Zero Trust is a key principle in the increasingly boundary-less business world, as opening up the corporate network and IT estate has profound security implications. E-commerce has been growing steadily for years and is expected...
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Solving for POPIA and securing business data
You know that you need to be POPIA compliant, but don’t lose sight of the bigger picture: effective data management has massive benefits beyond checking boxes, including heightened security and governance, and reduced risk. POPIA...