Buying cyber insurance coverage allows the risk of response costs to be transferred to the insurer, says Natalie van de Coolwijk, MD of CyGeist.
Up to 75% of mobile network operators will offer machine-to-machine communications during 2014, says Derick Roberts, CEO of Truteq Devices.
Whether designing, building or operating a mission-critical data centre, the importance of relevant training and qualifications cannot be underestimated, says Lee Smith of Dee Smith and Associates.
Big data and analytics will finally deliver on their promises this year, says Theo Priestley, chief evangelist at Software AG.
The Internet of Everything cannot be all that it is promised to be or benefit all of humanity if it is not also the Internet for Everybody, says Marieta Goetz, business analyst and researcher at ConVista Consulting.
Analytics for analytics' sake does not deliver the business value that it should, says Desan Naidoo, MD of SAS Southern Africa.
Consumers move across diverse channels, and companies need to 'meet' customers on each of these channels, says Julian Ardagh, CEO of Effective Intelligence.
Both customers and employees are embracing disruptive technologies faster than businesses, says John Michelsen, CTO of CA Technologies.
Multi-domain MDM, specifically in private cloud or on-premises situations, will increasingly demand greater executive attention, says Johann van der Walt, MDM practice manager at Knowledge Integration Dynamics.
SharePoint is maturing, getting stronger, learning from its experiences, and getting better at what businesses need it to do, says Simon Hepburn, director of bSOLVe.
The businesses that will be least impacted by POPI are those that have already begun to plan for it, says Arthur Bucas, associate director at Ovations and head of ECM and BPM.
When buying software, make sure a certificate of authenticity and the original media have been provided, says Simon Campbell-Young, CEO of Phoenix Distribution.
