Asgarali Mia, principal consultant and data strategy advisor at iOCO. Historically, financial planning processes were fragmented across departments, reliant on past data and led almost exclusively by the finance function. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a fundamental reimagining of financial planning as an enterprise-wide capability that is integrated, forward-looking and continuously adaptive. AI advances,…
Keeping an IoT deployment connected across markets and continents has traditionally meant shipping physical Sim cards across borders, sending engineers to swap them and troubleshooting hardware that is difficult to reach. As deployments expand across countries and use cases, those manual steps become a scaling bottleneck, and every extra touchpoint adds cost, delay and risk….
The Tharisa Mine is an open-pit platinum group metals and chrome mining operation in the North West province. (Image: Datacentrix) Tharisa Minerals, an integrated resource group critical to the energy transition and decarbonisation of economies, has successfully transformed its South African open-pit mining operation into a highly connected, data-driven environment. This is the result of…
Octotel, South Africa’s leading fibre network, has partnered with RSAWEB, Project Isizwe, and Huddle to launch a groundbreaking initiative to bridge the digital divide and empower education within the Western Cape. This collaboration aims to transform learning environments across the region and bridge the digital divide by providing world-class fibre internet to classrooms. Together, the…
Roam has launched a digital platform that connects electric vehicles to a centralized monitoring system designed for fleet operators across Africa. The system, called Roam Explorer, tracks battery health, vehicle performance, location and usage in real time. It connects electric motorcycles, tuk-tuks, buses and cars to a digital platform accessible through mobile devices. Founded in…
Syspro, provider of the purpose-built ERP for manufacturing and distribution, and SugarCRM, provider of the award-winning intelligence-driven sales automation platform, today announced a new go-to-market partnership giving manufacturers and distributors precision selling capabilities. The combination of ERP and CRM provides a powerful way to help businesses navigate sales environments characterized by complex product catalogs and…
By the end of the year, 5G subscriptions are expected to reach 2.9 billion – about a third of all mobile subscriptions globally, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report. And just nine years after its launch, 5G is expected to overtake 4G globally as the dominant mobile access technology by subscription by the end…
MTN South Africa has launched a new portfolio of integrated home and mobile connectivity plans, signalling a clear shift in its strategic focus towards the “connected home.” This move progresses beyond the former “Ambition 2025” strategy and aligns with a broader organizational pivot announced by MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita. Read: Google South Africa launches…
MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita MTN Group has signalled a big change in strategy as it shifts focus to the connected home to drive revenue and profit growth between now and 2030. This will form one of several key focus areas CEO Ralph Mupita said the group has identified as it moves beyond its Ambition…
