The Eastern Cape & Garden Route Business to Business Publication

Real broadband = real business

Vast opportunities for improving efficiencies, reducing costs and developing new business are being opened up with the arrival of competition in the supply of Internet connectivity to South Africa – and the rest of the continent.
Locally, Telkom’s stronghold on bandwidth will be loosened through the commissioning of the Seacom undersea cable linking South Africa and [...]

Can you trust your data?

by Brenda Scholtz
In a global and increasingly competitive market, organisations are driven by information and the search for ways to transform data into true knowledge is critical to a business’s success. However, there is also a shortage of good IT staff worldwide, and this problem is compounded in South Africa due to the brain drain [...]

Gadgets with ROI

When times are tough, really tough decisions have to be made – such as what gadgets are “must haves,” and which are “nice to have”.
Business people will know there is only one way to make such a decision – look at the return on investment (ROI). This theory can be applied to gadgets – or [...]

Online Marketing

by Hamish McDermid
The question isn’t “Should my business be online or not?”, but rather “Can my business afford not to be online?”
South Africans have started becoming active members of the global community thanks to cheap high speed internet access, helping to drive online retail sales up 35% in 2007.
More people are researching their purchases online [...]

New, used or upgraded?

In Ali Baba and the 40 thieves, the bad guy offered to swap new lamps for old. The underlying message was that old things may have more value than the shiny new ones. Businesses are often faced with a choice between new and refurbished (or old).
Questions to ask yourself when considering upgrading equipment…

Is the old [...]