A new business advisory released by Ernst & Young (EY), states that companies at the convergence of telecommunications, media, entertainment and technology face a difficult business paradox this year.
Altech Card Solutions has acquired the businesses of Cardtronic for an undisclosed amount.
Cognos has announced the availability of the Cognos Series 7 enterprise-class business intelligence solution.
Siemens is rolling out a R25 million trading project for Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank which is to marry streaming video and unified messaging with telephony in the trading room.
MTN`s online messaging experiment is still available for SMS to MTN subscribers, but due to "massive" Telkom charges international messages are being blocked. Paid-for and corporate versions are due soon, however.
Oracle has added the Daily Business Close feature to its 11i E-Business Suite, to deliver daily organisational metrics for all lines of business.
Nortel Networks has announced the availability of the Remote Office 9110 and 9115 solutions, which provide home-based remote workers with the same features and services they would have in their offices.
Avaya will examine the future of converged business communications technologies at the Dimension Data Customer Interactive Solutions conference starting on Wednesday in Vanderbijlpark.
Avaya says Philippine outsourced contact centre company PeopleSupport has installed its Definity Enterprise Communication Server voice solution.
Avaya says its Gold Business Partner, Fiberdata has won a contract to supply data networking solutions to SSAB.
Avaya has formed an alliance with Hitachi through which the companies will jointly develop and provide solutions for customer relationship management.
Avaya has announced a marketing initiative to leverage its sponsorship of the 2002 FIFA World Cup with its authorised BusinessPartners.