NEC XON wins global networking award for innovative African solutions

VMware empowers customers to manage and run consistent infrastructure and operations across data centres and public clouds, says Helen Kruger, CEO of Troye.

In management, risk aversion manifests as control, a need for certainty and making “safe” choices, says Anujah Bosman, CEO at Chillisoft.

Share price is the starting point; value calculations should be based on the critical success factors that are specific to the firm’s environment, says Greg Morris, CEO, Sebata Group Holdings.

Making a fake news detection model available as a global open source project means it could be improved by the community to make detection faster, says Aroma Rodrigues, Python developer at a major bank in India.

Technology is creating powerful, assertive consumers who require more value-based services and will stop at nothing to get them, says Julia Ahlfeldt, CX adviser and management consultant at Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting. 

Businesses that have spearheaded transformational digital projects in SA over the past two years will be celebrated by BCX at the event, says Shaheen Vawda, Head of Product Portfolio Management, BCX.

It offers a host of benefits, including direct access to some external sources, real-time analytics and fraud detection, and more, says André Costerus, BI Architect at GlueData Master Data Solutions.

Nearly 70% of SMBs have not identified and documented cybersecurity threats, making them prone to risks and vulnerabilities, says John Ford, chief information security officer, ConnectWise.

Actionable intelligence allows rogue users to be intercepted, information flows to be halted and personal data or IP to be secured before it's compromised, says Ignus de Villiers, Divisional Manager for Cybersecurity at Nexio.

Open source is about community, but we in SA are not using it to harness the collective power of communities, says Lucky Nkosi, software engineer at BBD.

Plumbers have become key in driving water sustainability goals, leveraging new business models and helping deploy smart water solutions powered by the IOT, says Ushal Moonsamy, chief solutions officer at SqwidNet.