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Botswana fund upgrades enterprises system

Botswana’s largest financial fund Botswana Public Officers Pension Fund (BPOPF) upgraded its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to information technology giant Softline Accpac’s Sage ERP Accpac 500 from the start of April 2011 and the...

By: Mary-Anne O’Donnell

13 May 11

TECHNOLOGY

New traffic demerit system ready to go – technology developer

Technology company Tasima, which established and maintains the country's electronic National Traffic Information System (eNatis), is ready to roll out the administrative adjudication of road traffic offences (Aarto) system, also known as the...

By: Brindaveni Naidoo

12 May 11

Business Process Outsourcing

Choice of communication driving call centre change

Over the next two to three years, South Africa will see a greater shift towards contact centres that use multiple forms of communication, driven by demand from clients, says communication software supplier Elingo sales and marketing director Karl...

By: Schalk Burger

29 Apr 11

Business Process Outsourcing

Software offers real-time assessment of skills

New software, developed by the University of the Witwatersrand, enables contact centre managers to monitor and assess, in real time, the language skills of potential recruits during a telephone interview.

By: Schalk Burger

29 Apr 11

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Many ERP systems still underperform against expectations

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems offer significant potential to improve a company’s way of doing business.

By: Mary-Anne O’Donnell

08 Apr 11

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

New academy launched to develop SA's electronics skills

International consumer technology giant Samsung, through its core corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative, has launched the Samsung Electronics Engineering Academy, in Boksburg, with the aim of developing 10 000 electronic engineers...

By: Mary-Anne O’Donnell

18 Mar 11

OPEN INNOVATION

Open innovation could be key to solving technical challenges facing companies

Open Innovation (OI) services company NineSigma has more than two-million solution providers in its OI community.

By: Mary-Anne O’Donnell

04 Mar 11

Information technology

IT groups team up in pursuit of public-sector clients

Information technology (IT) management company CA Southern Africa has appointed system solutions specialists EOH Public Sector Consulting as a strategic, accredited partner and supplier of CA products and service implementation within the public...

By: Mary-Anne O’Donnell

25 Feb 11

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Internet service provider acquires second data centre  in response to rising demand for cloud computing

Local Internet service provider RSAWEB has announced the acquisition of its second data centre facility, in Cape Town, set to come online in December 2010.

By: Mary-Anne O’Donnell

03 Dec 10

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Company	Country	Person	Industry Term
Acc Consult Softline ACCPAC Tasima Elingo Twitter Education Samsung Samsung South Africa NineSigma CA Southern Africa EOH Public Sector Consulting Amazon Eskom Rackspace RSAWeb	Botswana South Africa	Jacob Tuelo Motlhale Keith Fenner Motshubi Sebina Tebogo Mphuti Karl Reed Dan Thinane Kwang Kee Parks Skip Davis Dion Ramoo Rob Gilmour	Retail Stores Technology Transport Communication Management Systems Communication Software Supplier Consumer Technology Electrical Technology Facilitator Information Technology Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Services Colocation Services Inno- vative Technology Internet Service
Natural Feature	Province Or State	Technology	City
Eastern Cape	Eastern Cape	SMS Information Technology Consumer Technology ISP	Johannesburg Cape Town
Continent	Product
Africa	IPhone