Robotic Process Automation – applications for every industry
The benefits of robotic process automation (RPA) are huge; across businesses of all sizes and a wide range of industries. By relieving human workers from having to perform repetitive tasks, these...
Automation and the changing world of work
Technology enthusiasts, economists and business leaders across the globe are currently engaged in a very important debate about what impact automation will have on the modern workplace. On the one...
AI and IoT in a world of cloud computing
Forbes equate the hype around cloud computing, the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) to the launch of the internet some thirty years ago. Describing the rise of the internet...
Why AI makes automation easy
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” A well-known saying from Socrates, these words have become more and more relevant as digital...
Automation and the future of the working world
In 1888, Edward Bellamy, a journalist and writer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, published a book about the future. Titled Looking Backward: 2000–1887, this utopian science fiction novel tells...
Cyber security in the age of BYOD
From phishing and botnets to malware and rogue software – cyber criminals are spoiled for choice when it comes to how they can infiltrate corporate networks. And while mobile device policies like...
Cloud Computing: A Practical Guide for SMEs
Back in the day, all the equipment business needed to run successfully could be found in their office. Confidential records were housed in clunky filing cabinets, collaboration meant dragging...
DST to Invest R60m in Cyberinfrastructure Projects
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) has committed to investing R60 million in South Africa’s cyberinfrastructure over the next three years.
Deloitte Launches First African Cyber Intelligence Centre
A Deloitte Cyber Intelligence Centre (CIC) has opened in Johannesburg, making South Africa the first African country to host such a hub.