It is said the lifeblood of an IT economy is the state of its software development industry. ITWeb asks local developers about the skills crisis and the build versus buy question.

Too much work and not enough people. That's the summary of local software development in SA.

Disaster recovery and business continuity are seen as a grudge spend, but good governance and holistic risk management are changing this trend.

A Gartner management update released in 2005 details six myths about BCM and DR. These are as relevant today as they were then, which reflects the relative lack of maturity of this segment.

1965: The Northeast blackout occurs in New York City, the first major regional disaster affecting corporate data centres.

Business intelligence is maturing quickly. Signs include consolidation, wider appeal to SMEs and more user influence.

Since the last ITWeb business intelligence round table, there has been some consolidation in the vendor market.

Human resources has been on the road from administrative processor to strategic advisor for many years, but a lack of process automation has delayed things somewhat.

Gartner reveals the human capital management vendors which are solving old HR problems in new and interesting ways.

Early tools, such as macro assemblers and interpreters, are created in the 1950s.

As the enterprise market reaches saturation, ERP vendors and integrators of all sizes rush to gain a share of the flourishing SME verticals.

To rent or to own? This is the question facing CIOs and financial departments in the race to keep pace with constantly changing technology.

In a bid to standardise the equipment used by its brokers, Absa Brokers struck a deal with iVolve.