Category: SNA HIGHLIGHS

The global transportation industry, while still expanding, faces a slowdown attributed to various factors, notably the enduring impacts of the pandemic. Despite this, projections anticipate significant growth, with the industry expected to reach a value of $8.9 trillion by 2030, boasting an average annual growth rate of 3.6%. In light of this slowdown, the sector […]

SYSPRO, a global provider of ERP software, has today released its third annual Global CFO Survey, which reveals that the role of the manufacturing Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has seen a strategic inward focus aimed at bolstering operational resilience and efficiency in the wake of some unprecedented macro-economic shocks. The study, which was conducted from […]

Strategic data specialist partner Insight Consulting has been awarded the Qlik Best Performing Partner award in South Africa for 2023, further cementing its status as a leading data specialist consultancy. Qlik, a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for both Analytics and Business Intelligence platforms, as well as for Data Integration, says the award recognises the […]

South Africa’s banking sector has always been characterised by forward-thinking mindsets. Like the rest of the continent, digital platforms and services play a crucial role in offering financial services to a majorly underserviced or “unbanked” population. Between 2012 and 2022, the number of people in Africa who have access to banking more than doubled, from […]

inq., a Convergence Partners company, has introduced its Doc AI platform that leverages specialised deep learning optical character recognition (OCR) to upload scanned documents or images of any kind. The solution can then extract the necessary fields and map them into an Excel file or database to help organisations digitise previously manually-driven processes. Doc AI […]

globalCom Africa, an innovative communication solutions company, has launched its latest technologically advanced communications solution; RAPID CCaaS® (Crisis Communication as a Service). RAPID CCaaS®, is a first of its kind subscription-based managed service, that boasts the technology needed to sustain in-building communications for the nerve centre of any organisation, in times of crisis. Founder and […]

As South Africa continues to grapple with its massive youth (15-34 years) unemployment rate of 4.7 million individuals (Q4 2023), there is a critical need for innovative approaches to skills development and employability.  Rajan Naidoo, Managing Director of EduPower Skills Academy views learnerships as an excellent platform for creative training methodologies thereby, paving the way […]

Ask any company head or business leader how important employee productivity is to them, and they will tell you that it is right up there with a strong bottom line and a good coffee machine. But productivity, in itself, shouldn’t be the starting point; rather, it should be the people.  So says Arjen de Bruin, […]