The fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry continues to experience increasingly rapid change, limited resources, greater business risk, and more complexity in every aspect of their business and manufacturing operations. Global sourcing and distribution, increasingly rapid distribution, and the age … Read More
When it comes to development many of you will be only too familiar with the traditional method of development. Traditionally you would start with the compiling of the product requirements spec document, this would be handed over to the development … Read More
Never before has there been such an opportune time in South Africa to be an entrepreneur in the technology industry. The landscape is flourishing, the opportunities are plentiful and the forecast is onwards and upwards for this particular industry sector. … Read More
Confused about the difference between Software-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service? You are not alone. Our experience with South African and international companies show a distinct lack of understanding not only of what each of the three entails, but also how companies … Read More
For those of you that follow the Scrum methodology you may already know all too well the value of the retrospective. However for those of you in organisations where the concept of Scrum and words like Agile and Retrospective are … Read More
“Windows Azure is facilitating the democratisation of IT in South Africa by giving developers enterprise-grade building blocks to create solutions at only a fraction of the traditional cost,” says Cliff de Witt, development and platform group (DPE) lead at Microsoft … Read More
This article is the first of a series, in which we will be looking at UX/UI Patterns and their origins. We will go over how these patterns are providing UI developers & designers frameworks and guidelines to create the best … Read More
“No single word strikes so much fear in the heart of today’s worker as ‘automation’. Huge advances in technology enable businesses to automate many manual labour processes through either machines or software, unlocking huge cost and time saving opportunities. Businesses … Read More
“Many companies already feel that they’re good at IT outsourcing and vendor management. Often these companies run in virtualised environments which sets them up well for cloud services adoption. However, executives need to consider a number of business and technology … Read More