The COVID-19 salary crisis

A brief guide to leveraging networks for business, by Terry White, executive consultant at Netsurit.

Providing access to scalable, dependable and secure computing power is transforming citizen services, including healthcare, says Zubin Chagpar: head of MEA, AWS Public Sector Sales.

The trend to embrace DevOps and automation was becoming apparent even before the pandemic struck, says Jose De Nobrega, sales director, Software at iOCO.

Companies need to grow the skills necessary to reap the benefits that integrated mainframe and customer-centric strategies can realise, says Gerard King, CA Southern Africa Mainframe pre-sales and support engineer.

As we advance in healthcare and its innovation, patients are becoming more vested in the decisions around their care, says Shiraaz Joosub, healthcare sales executive at T-Systems South Africa.

Having to manage a lot of security applications makes it easier for security administrators to miss an update or a setting change, says Ignus De Villiers, security lead at Nexio.

There has been a 350% surge in phishing Web sites since the start of the pandemic, says John Mc Loughlin, CEO of J2 Software.

With data being the lifeblood of every business, protecting it should already be a top priority, says Michael Morton, solutions architect at Securicom.

More must be done to accelerate the synthesis of diverse and inclusive perspectives in the AI creation process, says Rudeon Snell, global senior director: Industries & Customer Advisory at SAP.

While a drop in GP visits could be attributed to lockdown restrictions, a significant drop points to a more worrying trend – the impact of treatment of chronic patients, says Liza de Beer, digital marketing manager at Healthbridge.

Digital transformation has added pressure for solution providers to accelerate development, says Avanti Naidu, business development manager at Axiz.

Enterprise resource planning software is an integral component in ensuring a successful pivot, says Kevin Dherman, chief innovation officer at SYSPRO.