Professor Kerry-Lynn Thomson, Director of the School of Information Technology at Nelson Mandela University. Organisations should move beyond trying to eliminate Shadow AI and instead focus on governance, visibility and employee education to reduce cyber risk while enabling responsible AI adoption. This is according to experts from the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa…
Microsoft added nearly US$450-billion in market value on Thursday, the largest one-day gain on record for any company, after it forecast stronger-than-expected cloud growth and signalled continued cash generation through its new fiscal year. The software giant’s shares closed up more than 15%, lifting its market capitalisation to $3.35-trillion, surpassing chip giant Nvidia’s previous record…
CEO of Yooz, Laurent Charpentier. Yooz, the trusted expert in purchase-to-pay (P2P) automation, and Sage, the leader in accounting, financial, HR and payroll technology for small and mid-sized businesses, today announced the expansion of Yooz’s Purchase-to-Pay automation solution across additional Sage markets, following a successful rollout in France earlier this year. As organisations continue to…
Accelera Digital Group’s Cliff de Wit Not long ago, organisations were experimenting with generative AI to draft e-mails, summarise documents and answer questions. Today agentic AI is changing what the technology is for. In a conversation on TechCentral’s TCS+ podcast, Cliff de Wit, MD for South Africa and group chief innovation officer at Accelera Digital…
On this episode of ITWeb TV, NTT Data South Africa’s managing executive Amantha Naidoo outlines the company’s asset-light strategy, artificial intelligence ambitions, and its plans to grow South African technology talent. #Datacentres #AI #Cloud #data centers NTT Data South Africa is repositioning for a new era of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven infrastructure, shifting away from owning…
Incoming Nebank CIO Nikos Angelopoulos Nedbank has appointed Nikos Angelopoulos, formerly MTN Group’s group CIO, to the same role at the bank, which has been without a permanent technology chief since the end of January. Angelopoulos starts on 1 September and joins the group executive committee. He ran technology at MTN from July 2018 until…
Deputy minister of justice and constitutional development Andries Nel. (Image source: DJCD) Despite digital transformation efforts within South Africa’s judicial system, constraints such as budgets and limited ICT human resource capacity persist. This is according to Andries Nel, deputy minister of justice and constitutional development, speaking yesterday at the Lex-Informatica Cyber Law and ICT Conference…
Obsidian Systems’ Smarter.tech ’26 brought enterprise technology leaders and practitioners together online to tackle a question that gets harder to answer with every new platform launch: what does working smarter actually mean for organisations already carrying complex infrastructure and stretched teams, and now under pressure to adopt AI responsibly? The answer that ran through the…
Nikos Angelopoulos, Nedbank Group CIO. Nedbank has appointed Nikos Angelopoulos as its new group chief information officer (CIO), effective 1 September. Angelopoulos joins the bank from MTN Group, where he has served as group CIO since 2018. In that role, he was responsible for IT strategy, investments, delivery and governance across MTN’s 16 markets, supporting…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has endorsed a report by the Eskom restructuring task team setting out how to establish a fully independent, state-owned transmission system operator (TSO) that will own and control South Africa’s transmission assets and run the electricity market. “The TSO is a key enabler of a successful competitive wholesale electricity market that is…
