Johannesburg – South Africa has been rated as the country with the highest digital literacy in Africa, according to a report released on Thursday by Siemens and Deloitte.
The ‘African Digitalisation Maturity Report 2017’ included research conducted across South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Ethiopia.
If you search Google or Bing for “Steve Ballmer developers,” the first result is likely to be a video of the former Microsoft CEO manically chanting developers, over and over again. Despite the disturbing insanity of the presentation, the message was, and still is, correct. Microsoft, and every other software maker and device manufacturer, needs developers to be successful.
Agile, DevOps, continuous delivery—and all of it at scale. How do these things come together? Businesses want to do more with the technical advances that DevOps and agile have conferred, but when it comes to next steps, those who advocate “scaled agility” seem to talk past those who discuss “the DevOps enterprise.”
There is currently a disconnect between what academia is teaching students in analytics disciplines and what the companies that will recruit them after graduation require. The majority of tertiary education institutions teach the students to utilise open source analytics software. This works well in the classroom environment of a university and for academic research performed only on small data sets.
Columnist David Gewirtz explains that answering the question “Which programming language is the most popular?” is no simple task as there is no shortage of measures you can use to gauge popularity.
Delivery has always been a key differentiator in business. Whether it be goods or services, companies that are known to deliver quality offerings quickly, securely and flexibly, are already well on their way to success.
Time tracking has been a part of the daily work day for as long as most of us remember. From the early days of coal miner’s having their attendance checked off when they arrived at work for the day and again at night onto grabbing a time card and having it punched or stamped by a clock mechanism. Today, almost every business has some form of time tracking to help keep track of where their employees are and for how long.
Few organisations have adopted full cloud services. Usually, only small companies or new start-ups that don’t have legacy setups or the funds to purchase infrastructures will go fully into the cloud. Most will operate using a hybrid cloud model because they already have existing business critical infrastructure in place, and this architecture is likely to continue for the foreseeable future.
98% Of executives agree that optimal enterprise application performance is critical to achieving optimal business performance. And yet, 94% of executives say the poor performance of enterprise applications has negatively impacted their work, and 59% say it impacts their work at least weekly. This performance gap is causing a series of problems for companies, from lost revenue and customers to lower morale to negative impact on brand image.
