Barrie Green, Regional Vice President of UKI and Middle East at Appian, discusses the key to understanding and implementing process automation. He explains some key issues and challenges that can be addressed with process automation and tells us how Appian is helping organisations to address these challenges through its platform. What are the key issues […]

Digital Transformation is a costly challenge  In this interview, Barrie Green, Regional Vice President for UKI and Middle East at Appian talks about process automation.  Although today’s fast-paced business environment demands digital transformation (DT), the reality is that a large proportion of DT initiatives fall short of their goals. Harvard Business Review reports that a […]

With 450,000 malwares detected every day and staggering 3.4 billion daily phishing emails entering inboxes, the addition of ChatGPT is likely to take attack and defence to a new level explains David Hoelzer at SANS Institute. The launch of ChatGPT took the world by storm creating a host of new opportunities and challenges, virtually overnight. […]

Supply chains, economic disturbances, social hurdles, the challenges never stop, so neither can the data evolution of a competitive business advises Vibhu Kapoor at Epicor. In business, insights are everything. They are the angled mirrors that help decision makers see round corners. And in insights, data is everything. It is the light that bounces off […]

IT teams need flexible cybersecurity solutions to address near-constant evolution in enterprise networking needs and licensing models for those solutions should be just as flexible says John Maddison at Fortinet. When it comes to technology, the one thing you can count on is change. Requirements evolve over time as organisations adapt their environments and deployments […]

With South African businesses reeling under power cuts, Andrew Cruise at Routed, advises African channel partners and enterprise decision makers on how to select their cloud service partners. Cloud adoption is rapidly increasing in Africa, with no slow-down in sight. Worldwide Worx research indicates that 69% of companies in eight African countries plan to increase […]

Vibhu Kapoor at Epicor takes us through the market dynamics of ERP business applications and links it to challenges faced by channel partners, offering tips for them to succeed. In the Middle East, enterprise planning is now essential to manufacturers, and heavy industry sectors that are in turn critical to governments’ economic diversification programmes. In […]

Previous techniques like hover and poor grammar are no longer indicative of modern-day phishing attacks says Lance Spitzner at SANS Security Awareness, and urgency and pressure in the message are more indicative. Phishing has been and continues to be one of the most common attack methods cyber attackers use because it is so effective. Phishing […]

In today’s digital economy, the ability to create value depends a lot on relationships built within the IoT eco-system and Larry Socher at Eseye describes the opportunities here for partners. The Internet of Things, IoT is becoming increasingly ubiquitous. Yet, with more devices connected, the opportunities for businesses to innovate and improve their operations are […]

Kinda Baydoun at Veeam looks at four key areas where channel partners remain most engaged in today’s digital landscape and advises them to follow best practices from IDC. Veeam’s ProPartner global services over 35,000 active partners and 450,000 end-customers. Interactions with channel partners throws up a lot of interesting insights that give an indication of […]