South Africa has an unpleasant reputation of being a crime-ridden society. Despite this image, when it comes to corporate governance and securities regulations, the country does not have to take a back seat to anyone. The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) is home to over 400 companies which produce financial statements every six months for [...]
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Hazards of getting connected
Over the past two years, South African Internet users have seen reduced prices for bandwidth from Internet service providers (ISPs) across the board. This is largely thanks to the increased – and cheaper – bandwidth resulting from the landing of the Seacom cable, as well as infrastructural investments on the part of many of the [...]
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Can businesses afford to close in December?
Creating opportunities for 2011 With world economies collapsing and companies struggling to survive the recession, can they really afford to close for a month over December ? Unlike before, companies are now using all available resources to ensure their sustainability, but they also need to consider alternative methods to help increase their revenues and establish [...]
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Tax benefit makes budgeting easy
In response to the latest budget speech, Paper to Digital Storage Solutions (P2D) has introduced a cost effective solution that is 100 percent tax deductable. The all-in-one document management solution enables companies to convert paper-based documents into tamperproof electronic documents, making them accessible from anywhere across the globe. The Company’s CEO Dawid Jacobs says P2D [...]
SAP now available on monthly subscription
Local SAP® BUSINESS All-in-One Partner, SCT Services, has announced a new licensing and delivery option for SAP® BUSINESS All-in-One (SAP BAiO) solutions. The new hosted and subscription-based delivery model is designed to help midsize companies obtain a world-class business application with a lower up-front cost by eliminating the capital outlay traditionally required for acquiring software [...]
P2D simplifies record management
Record and content management has become an extremely complex business, especially with new legislation and company regulations that are being enforced. Local specialist electronic record and document management solutions provider, Paper 2 Digital Storage Solutions, has introduced various packages to simplify the process of digitising documents. Paper to Digital Storage Solutions CEO Dawid Jacobs says [...]
Open Text delivers rich fax functions for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Local Rightfax distributor Galdon Data has announced that Open Text has developed enterprise fax functionality which seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Exchange 2010. This development ensures that enterprises can migrate to Exchange Server 2010, preserve their investments in network-based fax capability and unified messaging systems, and provides the ability to access faxing from mobile devices. Open [...]
ERP for the people
Today’s business management solutions, particularly enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, are evolving from a focus on transactions and data entry to one that places people and usability at the centre of solution design. This includes attention to varying work styles, role-based perspectives on information and tasks, and the need to extract information in the context [...]
Latest Issue - 31 January 2012
In This Issue:
- Prospects for 2012
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- Reasons to be concerned about Europe
- Short-term insurance survey
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Newsletter 16 February 2012: Investing in uncertain times
In today’s newsletter we share some strategies investors can follow when investing in uncertain times. Uncertain times require a focus on the basics By Nic Andrew, head, Nedgroup Investments Negative news headlines, enormously complex macro-economic issues, extreme market volatility and often contradictory comments from the experts… There are an almost overwhelming number of factors influencing [...]
