In 2017, the use of data and analytics will increase greatly, creating value both inside and outside organisations that have prepared for this shift, says Ted Friedman. To support a ‘data and analytics everywhere’ world, IT professionals need to create a new end-to-end architecture built for agility, scale and experimentation. Today, disciplines are merging and […]

ServiceNow has released the results of a new report, Today’s State of Work: At the Breaking Point, revealing that the majority of organisations have introduced advanced automation in their workplace, and nearly half of executives surveyed say they’ll require it more broadly by 2018 to cope with rising work volumes. The survey indicated that adding machines to […]

Fortinet, a global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, has announced the findings of its latest Global Threat Landscape Report. The data spans the cybersecurity kill chain focusing on three central aspects of the landscape, including application exploits, malicious software and botnets against the backdrop of important enterprise technology and industry sector trends. The research reveals that […]

Africa’s mobile phone market started 2017 off with a drastic quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) decline according to the latest figures announced by International Data Corporation (IDC). The newly released Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that overall shipments for the first quarter of the year in Africa totalled 54.5 million units, down 8.2 per cent on Q4 2016. […]

The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to gain a strong footing in the GCC across different sectors ranging from manufacturing and transportation to energy. The vulnerability of IoT to external cyber threats remains high – in fact even higher than traditional IT – a recent Booz Allen Hamilton report has highlighted. The Booz Allen Hamilton […]

Continuing to build on its 15-year legacy of enabling enterprises in the Middle East to deploy customer-centric contact centres that deliver improved customer outcomes, IST, the customer experience technology specialists, has announced the launch of IST OmniCloud, a cloud-based digital customer experience platform, and IST Sentiment Analysis. Available as independent solutions or as an integrated […]

SonicWall, the trusted security partner protecting more than one million networks worldwide, has announced that Michael Berg has joined the company as Senior Director of Channel Sales with a focus on Europe. As the latest addition to SonicWall’s worldwide sales and channel team, Berg will enhance the company’s strong relationships with the European channel and […]

The number of online shoppers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is growing exponentially. The Middle East’s e-commerce sector, in particular, has skyrocketed by 1,500 per cent over the last 10 years due mainly to its young demographic with high disposable income and high Internet penetration. Leading this climb is the GCC […]

Riverbed Technology has announced the results of a regional survey, which revealed that Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) adoption in the Middle East is set to follow the global trend, with nearly 50 per cent of enterprises already having initial discussions around the adoption of this technology. The survey conducted by Riverbed at the end of 2016 […]

Technavio announced the top six leading vendors in their recent global online electronics retailing market report until 2021. This research report also lists eight other prominent vendors that are expected to impact the market during the forecast period. The research study by Technavio on the global online electronics retailing market for 2017-2021 provides detailed industry […]