Digital platforms help employees lead the change to make manufacturing more flexible.

What columnist James Francis would like to see happen, technology-wise, in the year ahead of us.

There is a clear trend towards more agile development and DevOps activities, says Raffi Margaliot, senior VP and GM of Application Delivery Management Product Group at Micro Focus.

Not everyone is abandoning their data centres for the cloud. Some leading sectors, such as financial firms and manufacturers, are keeping their feet in both worlds.

Upgrading to modern business systems and services is not just a step up. It's a watershed for how companies can run their affairs.

How can manufacturers avoid cascading problems on their floor and increase the speed of planning?

If ADSL is making a loss, at least let it make a meaningful loss that challenges SA's data norms.

Forget the old, stoic and immovable ERP: tomorrow's ERPs will be dynamic, smart and follow the user.

The arrival of local Azure data centres shows SITA's commitment to using digital services, says Setumo Mohapi, CEO of SITA.

Post-modern ERPs are flexible, marrying the power of the ERP with its need to ebb and flow with business demands, says Bernard Ford, CEO of One Channel.

Distributed data centres are becoming more critical to support day-to-day operations for many companies, says George Senzere, solutions engineering manager at Schneider Electric.

Digital twin technology is a hint of where digital technologies, combined with IOT, can take us, says George Senzere, solutions engineering manager at Schneider Electric.