"While many executives today would agree that business continuity is an important aspect of corporate governance, few have a reasonable idea of what it entails," says Jorgen Nielsen, director of ContinuitySA
Local companies are turning to outsourcing firms for assistance in managing the IT risks faced due to unreliable electricity supply, says Phil Savides, regional CEO of Business Connexion Western Cape.
Business intelligence (BI) is being sabotaged by the poor quality of data contained in corporate databases, says Andrew Brown, BI manager, Computer Science Corporation`s local operation.
The demand for risk management solutions in SA is growing faster than the IT industry itself, says Amir Lubashevsky, director of Magix Integration.
There are only 15 000 engineers in SA for a population of 45 million, says Mdu Nene, MD of Pragma Africa.
Business leaders must view IT in an entirely different way if they are to harness the real potential of their digital progeny, says Richard Firth, CEO of MIP Holdings.
The impact of disruptive technologies is nowhere more profound than the telecommunications field, says Keith Bothma, divisional executive of national sales and managed services at GijimaAst.
Companies that adopt best practice approaches to enterprise planning have found this approach ensures execution is aligned to the organisation`s strategy, says David McWilliam, MD of Cognos SA.
Catering for the needs of a variety of users, from a software licensing perspective, is not an easy job, says Jane Geypen, Microsoft product manager at Axiz.
The information lifecycle management (ILM) concept is so well entrenched that the industry is well past the hype-cycle, says Hubert Wentzel of EOH Technology Consulting.
Fraudsters will soon have nowhere to hide because the future of biometrics has arrived, says Jans Wessels, MD of Dex Group Informatics.
Technology investments aimed at driving real business value into the organisation are rapidly becoming a reality, says Appie Pema, MD of Aptronics.
Regularly updated, maintained and managed networks can help companies improve their overall performance, says Traci Maynard, business unit manager at Tarsus Technologies.