Brainstorm Magazine

1. Real-time all the time
(October 2008/UpFront)

Online ticketing of air travel will dominate consumer e-commerce for the next five to ten years. Information technology spend in the travel and aviation sector is increasingly focused on delivering ...

2. Too much to do…
(October 2008/UpFront)

... auction houses in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. The booths give users real-time access to information about all the properties on auction. They also provide a secure connection so remote bidders ...

3. It’s your customer, right?
(October 2008/Features)

... including the Consumer Protection Act and the Protection of Personal Information Bill, it is clear that all the CRM activities will need to function in a manner that is compliant with the legislative requirements. ...

4. Editor's Note
(October 2008/Editors Note)

...  samantha@itweb.co.za Figures courtesy of the Alternative Information and Development Centre  ...

5. Passionate about printing
(October 2008/In-Depth Analysis)

... levels of media at different priority sectors. “Not all communication recipients will receive top-end full-colour literature. Some may receive information via personalised URLs, SMSes or black-and-white ...

6. Silent crimes
(October 2008/In-Depth Analysis)

... he uses to monetise the card information,” says Karel Rode, principal consultant at RSA, the security division of EMC. “Consumers and business owners are impacted through these fraudulent transactions.” ...

7. More than just certification
(October 2008/Features)

... been studies by higher education bodies in South Africa – one in 2007 and one in 2009 – that show that graduates lack the ability to find information, they don’t understand business, they can’t problem-solve ...

8. Dumb end-users
(October 2008/Features)

... having increased their information security budgets over the past 12 months. “Locally, companies have maintained their security budgets despite the pressures presented by the financial crisis, an extremely ...

9. New generation communication
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

Tsoko Information Technology delivers open source communication solutions that enable the efficient handling of diverse challenges, from risk managing an epidemic to getting excess inventory off a retail ...

10. Government on the go
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... that government isn’t making the effort; it is, through, for example, the Government Communication and Information System. However, despite that, many citizens are not getting the message; many citizens ...

11. MTN and government: a partnership
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

MTN Business understands that government plays a fundamental role in ensuring that citizens have access to information. Since the first cellphone connected to a cellular network in 1973, cellular technologies ...

12. Cornastone: Enterprise Technology Services deserve a sound foundation
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... like a LAN,” he explains. Information storage is another critical aspect of every organisation and is something that holds especially true for the many agencies that comprise an effectively functioning ...

13. Move from an efficient to effective government
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... and agencies the ability to delve deeper into their information – providing Data Quality. The 8 levels of analytics. How can you as a government department or agency benefit from an effective Planning, ...

14. Telkom enables modernisation of justice
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... be given standardised hardware, and that all specialised software services be in place. A supreme solution To meet all these requirements, the DOJ&CD, with the endorsement of the State Information ...

15. Giving legs to "legal aid for all"
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... organisational sustainability and efficiency. “That implies taking care of organisational capacity, which includes a stable and available information and communications technology platform, effectively ...

16. Achieving efficiency with performance management
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... in tracking performance information and employee performance, on short notice in real-time. “The compilation of paper-based portfolios of evidence was a tedious and time-consuming exercise. Performance ...

17. Cutting notebook theft
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... of public sector employees using notebook computers has dramatically increased the level of risk in the sector of sensitive information being compromised. “While corporate information leaking may have ...

18. Next-generation services
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... centres can cause problems with standards and access challenges, leading to the creation of the very information silos that effective e-government seeks to eliminate. “Vodacom’s offering automatically ...

19. Putting an end to fraud
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... fraud. Together with the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), the KZN provincial treasury has implemented a Biometric Access Control System that is intended to save the government millions of ...

20. A partner of choice to government
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... established partner at all levels: local, provincial and national. Eclipse Networks, an information technology reseller and ICT solutions and services provider, has over 25 years experience in the industry ...