When it comes to big data, what counts is what you do with it.

XLink founder and CEO Anton Leal believes he owes his success to graduating from the school of hard knocks.

Gartner is making a lot of noise about the Internet of things, but many commentators are sceptical.

Satellite services will continue to be an important access medium for South African businesses.

The notion of two-speed IT - running two different IT departments to address the needs of different areas of the business - is gaining favour. South African CIOs weigh in on whether this is the solution we've all been waiting for.

At a time when visionary leadership is needed, most South African CIOs are stuck between two eras - the industrialisation of yesteryear and the digitalisation of tomorrow. It's a transition that key IT industry also finds difficult to keep pace with, and there will be blood.

Cape-Town-based safari company Discover Africa is using a Web application built on Google Maps to let travellers track the spectacular wildebeest migration.

Traffic Freeflow streamlines the allocation of pointsmen on SA's roads and saves time and money with a simple smartphone app.

Fast-rising RainFin is tapping social data to shake up the local banking market and grab a slice of the lucrative loans business.

Are online resourcing platforms like Elance forever changing the nature of knowledge work?

Cloud service brokers promise one throat to choke and a unified delivery of cloud services. Is there room for them in SA?

Like any other risk, managing enterprise risk has a lot to do with how you tackle it.