Government needs to build up skills for its own needs as well as the country's. That won't be easy.
New laws in SA will compel companies to manage their data properly. But there's almost no guidance on how to proceed.
Unstructured data and cloud technologies have BI practitioners thinking hard.
Mobile handsets and applications continue to evolve faster than companies can cope with them. That will have to change.
Identity and access management adoption shouldn't be pushed by law, but rather by the pain of loss.
Will 2010 be a good year for ERP? It depends who you're selling it to.
A storage singularity? Maybe as early as this year.
Cloud computing and nimble competitors put pressure on the existing market for IT in financial services.
Service-oriented architecture has the potential to do a great deal of good - as long as it's consumed in bite-sized chunks.
SA has been spinning its wheels for 10 years trying to get BPO right. Blame the government.
Government has much work to do if it is to keep its promises of improved service delivery to South African citizens.
BPM has excellent potential to add value to business. It just needs to be explained properly.