Durban will be the third home of SA’s first data science institution, as it prepares for its largest student intake.

The partnership is part of the IT services company’s strategy to create a renewed focus on its two core business units.

The new Cisco-enabled SD-WAN service from BCX allows local organisations to easily manage their networks and increase business agility.

The status change comes as a result of parent company Telkom being granted B-BBEE facilitator status.

Telkom’s financial results reveal the group cut over 2 000 jobs last year, at a cost of R728 million.

Telkom sees an 86% increase in its mobile subscribers and now has 9.7 million customers in SA.

EOH Infor Services has taken on the Infor SmartStream products from BCX, with a view to helping customers upgrade to the Infor CloudSuite solution.

Unlimited Voice offers an unlimited voice usage package for business, with a bespoke solution for each client.

The agency names former BCX CIO Jacques Loubser as its chief digital officer, to lead its digital transformation and evolution process.

BCX has launched an SD-WAN suite, designed to increase business agility and assist companies to simplify their network management.

Although cloud computing adoption is low among SA SMEs, there are software-as-a-service solutions to most of their problems, says BCX's Dr Nkosi Kumalo.

Nkosi Kumalo, managing executive of sales at the company, will also be presenting at the event.