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Cloud apps: The difference between thriving and surviving in 2021 [promoted]
PJ Bishop, vice president for services at Sage Africa and Middle East, is well positioned to discuss the tools that make a tangible difference to the life of a business owner, and the impact they have on profitability and the bottom line. In addition to his role at Sage, PJ…
How insight-led user experiences can drive growth [promoted]
After a successful period in the UK, Nicholas Durrant returned to Cape Town to cement and grow Bluegrass Digital, offering insight-driven user experiences, innovation and technology to drive business growth for a global market. In this podcast, Durrant offers a view into the modern services business, often referencing the production…
Wayne D’Sa on a new era for CipherWave [promoted]
Wayne D’Sa is CEO of connectivity provider CipherWave. In this episode of the podcast, he unpacks his plans for the business, including its strong play into the voice space. The company has strong offerings as an Internet service provider, cloud provider and voice partner. In the podcast, D’Sa explores how…
How technology is transforming the customer experience in SA [promoted]
The technology landscape in South Africa has changed enormously in the past decade, helping make the country a hotbed for innovation in contact centre analytics. That’s the view of Frank Sherlock, vice president of international operations at CallMiner, and Peter Flanagan, MD of Genii Analytics, who joined the TechCentral podcast…
Interview: EOH CCO Ziaad Suleman on the promise of Brics [promoted]
The Brics formation of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (Brics) offers South African companies – from small businesses to large enterprises – with unprecedented access to markets that make up more than 40% of the world’s population. That’s the view of newly appointed EOH Holdings chief commercial officer…
Stephane Duproz on Africa Data Centres' big expansion drive
Africa Data Centres announced a plan earlier this week to ramp up investment in data centre infrastructure across Africa, with plans to build 10 new facilities in the coming years? In this episode of the podcast, ADC CEO Stephane Duproz speaks to Duncan McLeod from London about the announcement, where…
HPE GreenLake unpacked: What your business needs to know [promoted]
Ever wondered what Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE’s) GreenLake solution can do for your business? In this episode of the podcast, HPE country channel and sales lead Sandile Dube and Dimension Data regional head of solutions Quintus Moolman unpack what HPE GreenLake is exactly – HPE describes it as “the cloud…
How Comair did digital transformation right
Comair CIO Avsharn Bachoo has a quiet determination about him and a leadership style that drives change and provides a clear path for his team to follow. The focus of this episode is digital transformation. Where others seem only to be talking about it, Bachoo has enabled transformation at Comair,…
Interview: The digital economy is open to everyone [promoted]
As surprising as it sounds, there are still businesses that operate without an integrated accounting, payroll or payment software to help them. That’s one of the concerns aired by Viresh Harduth, vice president of small business, Sage Africa and Middle East, in a podcast interview with TechCentral. Harduth unpacks some…
e4’s Fikile Sibiya on a challenging 18 months for IT leaders [promoted]
Fikile Sibiya is chief information officer of e4. She knows just how much pressure CIOs and IT leadership teams have been under over the past 18 months, with Covid-19 impacting them hard. In this podcast interview with TechCentral, Sibiya talks about how CIOs have helped steer their organisations through a…
Pinnacle’s Nyeleti Shikwambane on being a female leader in IT [promoted]
This episode of the podcast brings a fitting end to Women’s Month as we get to know Nyeleti Shikwambane, a mother of four who is also the Huawei Enterprise product manager, IP, at Pinnacle. Speaking from home – Nyeleti has welcomed a new baby into her life a week ago…
Protecting unstructured data doesn’t have to be a nightmare [promoted]
By 2025, global data creation is projected to grow to more than 180 zettabytes, according to Statista. This growth does not always happen within neat boundaries, nor within systems of record – rather, unstructured formats make up much of the critical business data driving the economy. This poses massive risks…
Kim Reid reflects on 10 years as Takealot CEO
Kim Reid has spent the past 10 years building Takealot Group – today controlled by Naspers – into South Africa’s largest e-commerce company. He sat down with TechCentral to reflect on his time at the helm. Reid, who will step down at the end of September to take on the…
Insight and flexibility: Invisible accounting at its best [promoted]
Sage has made a significant impact in the applications market and today, Gerhard Hartman, vice president: medium business at Sage Africa and Middle East, joins the TechCentral team to chat about creating efficiencies in business and driving key performance indicators. He talks about providing business software to drive success. In…
Checkers Rush concept store: The inside story
Shoprite Group on Wednesday announced it has launched a pilot store in Cape Town that has no cashiers and no checkout counters. The store is entirely powered by cameras and artificial intelligence software. There isn't even a point of sale -- consumers' bank cards are billed automatically as they leave…
Managing workloads across multi-cloud environments with Morpheus [promoted]
Axiz is well known for its distribution network, but its cloud services business is growing rapidly, too. With the aid of Morpheous, a multi-cloud management platform, Axiz may have found the secret ingredient to minimising cloud-sprawl risk for both large and small companies in South Africa. In this promoted podcast,…
Zero Trust: The marathon businesses need to be ready to run [promoted]
First Distribution supports multiple partners, but one of the fastest growing is Trend Micro, which has been offering world-class security solutions for more than 30 years now. In this episode of the podcast, host Daniel Robus chats to Trend Micro’s technical lead for sub-Saharan Africa, Emmanuel Tzingakis, and First Distribution…
How Sean Sanders is building Revix into a crypto powerhouse [promoted]
Sean Sanders, founder and CEO of Revix, joins Daniel Robus in this episode of the podcast to talk about why he started the cryptocurrency investment company and his plans for the future. It’s an interview with a difference, though, with a strong focus on building a fintech business in South…
Stellenbosch start-up 6DOT50 brings crypto to retail
Stellenbosch-based start-up 6DOT50 is hoping to help consumers spend bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in retail stores and online in South Africa, making it easier to use crypto money for purchases. In this episode of the podcast, 6DOT50 founder Warren Venter talks to TechCentral's Duncan McLeod about why it’s enabling support…
e4's Carla de Abreu on doing document management right [promoted]
In the second of a series of interviews with e4, TechCentral is joined by the company's business development manager, Carla de Abreu, for a discussion on modern document management. Document management software is an increasingly critical part of any business in the digital era. Instead of rows of filing cabinets,…