Industrial businesses are operating under sustained pressure. Rising operating costs, energy constraints, ageing infrastructure, supply chain uncertainty and skills shortages are forcing organisations to rethink how they run. At the same time, advances in AI, the industrial internet of things (IIoT), robotics, automation and digital manufacturing are opening new ways to work. For most organisations,…
For most operations leaders, a point-of-sale system is where a transaction ends. A customer taps a card, a receipt prints, the sale closes. Fatima Khota, business unit manager for Rectron’s Automation and Data Capturing division. Image supplied Facilities management sits somewhere else entirely, in a different department, often a different budget line, dealing with a…
inDrive says smarter pickup locations could reduce delays, while helping drivers spend less time circling busy commercial and transport hubs. inDrive is rolling out two new pickup features in Johannesburg and Cape Town, aimed at reducing one of the most persistent frustrations in e-hailing: passengers and drivers struggling to find each other. The global mobility…
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Africa’s digital revolution is gathering pace, but the financing needed to sustain it remains uneven, fragmented, and often out of reach. To bridge this gap, African multilateral financial institutions, policymakers, development partners, and private sector leaders are calling for a more coordinated, innovative, and better-structured financing approach to support Africa’s digital…
Hasnain Motlekar, acting CEO of BCX. Clean and trustworthy data is essential to building a digitally enabled and intelligent company, with business leaders shifting their focus from technology procurement to achieving business outcomes from technology investments. This is according to executives from BCX, Telkom Business and Openserve, who hosted channel partners, industry specialists and customers…
Today, in many organisations, network downtime is more than an inconvenience – it can bring operations to a standstill. Whether it’s a production line, a hospital system or financial transactions, reliability has become a non-negotiable requirement. That’s where the Huawei CloudEngine S5755-S-HT series Twins switch comes in. Built from the ground up for resilience, this…
David Buck, General Manager for InnoVent South Africa. (Image: Supplied) As rising IT costs, supply chain instability and shrinking budget flexibility continue to impact organisations, businesses are being forced to rethink how technology is funded. InnoVent South Africa, a specialised provider of IT leasing and asset management solutions, says traditional procurement models are placing increasing…
New research from the University of the Witwatersrand offers a fresh explanation for one of the most-discussed questions in AI: why large language models develop structured, increasingly capable behaviour as they grow in scale. The answer, the Wits team argues, lies in a process that also governs how human children acquire language – and how…
At a time when public health systems in countries facing the greatest malaria burden are under intense pressure to deliver more with fewer resources, the importance of working more strategically and finding smarter ways to deliver life-saving care could not be clearer. That’s why at Malaria Consortium, many of our programmes don’t simply deliver a…
The modern workday no longer follows a predictable routine. It often begins in traffic, moves through a series of virtual meetings, shifts between home and office, and stretches well beyond traditional working hours. In this environment, performance depends not only on people and strategy, but on the quality and reliability of the technology that supports…
