The amount of money that South Africa’s financial services sector spends on technology every year is nothing short of impressive. In 2025, South African businesses invested tens of billions of rands in IT, with major organisations directing spending towards digital infrastructure, cloud computing, data capabilities and cybersecurity. In some cases, technology accounts for double-digit percentages…
Laserfiche — the leading SaaS provider of intelligent content management — today announced the launch of Enterprise Security, an advanced suite of security enhancements designed for organizations navigating complex regulatory environments. Enterprise Security addresses GovRAMP and CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services) security requirements based on the NIST SP 800-53 framework. For organizations handling privileged citizen,…
AI agents are moving from assistants that fetch data to co-workers that run tasks end to end. SAP says that shift — the autonomous enterprise — rests on two things most companies underestimate: context and governance. And with mainstream ECC support ending in 2027, South African businesses are running out of room to decide. Chris…
Veekash Beeam, Head of Technology at Nkgwete IT Solutions. Spend a day inside any large enterprise and one thing quickly becomes apparent: devices are in constant motion. A field engineer replaces a failed laptop. A new employee receives their first device. An executive’s machine is upgraded. Someone transfers departments and takes their equipment with them….
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…
InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering some of the world’s most important applications, today announced the general availability of InterSystems Data Studio™ AI Assistant, a new generative AI-powered extension for InterSystems Data Studio that helps organizations more easily understand, navigate, query, and visualize data through natural language interactions. As organizations move from AI experimentation…
Bramley Maetsa, IT digital and innovation enablement lead at Sasol. Something interesting is happening in enterprise AI right now. Organisations are celebrating how many AI agents they have built. How many pilots are running. How many employees have access to AI tools. How many use cases are in production. These are the wrong numbers to…
Sabine Holl, VP sales engineering and CTO, IBM MEA. Artificial intelligence (AI) is forcing a shift in the way businesses operate and is the foundation to support the construct of an agentic-powered enterprise. Global technology and consulting firm IBM warns though that governance as an afterthought and a siloed approach to AI adoption remain challenges….
Large enterprises face a cybersecurity mismatch: rising AI-powered attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs) outpace understaffed teams. Fragmented tools create visibility gaps and alert fatigue. To build resilience, organisations should consolidate platforms, automate responses and embed AI-driven detection, shifting from reactive firefighting to intelligence-led protection at scale. In the space of a few short years,…
NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services today announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to help enterprises move from AI experimentation to scaled deployment of agentic AI solutions built with Gemini Enterprise. The collaboration is focused on enabling AI-powered reinvention, helping enterprises redesign processes, operating models and customer experiences…
