IT asset management is not just about controlling assets it is also about ensuring optimum performance of a company’s assets, and in such a way that it does not drain a company’s resources and budget. 

HP has announced enhancements to HP Agile Accelerator to help customers increase the quality of their applications, enhance productivity, and respond to changing business scenarios quickly and cost-effectively.

FrontRange Solutions has launched FrontRange Discovery 9, an all-in-one solution for finding and tracking all physical and virtual IT assets across the corporate network.

ContinuitySA has announced that its specialised Complete Continuity business continuity management training programmes, the only hands-on courses of this nature on the continent received full ISETT SETA accreditation and ‘Content Approval’ from the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) based in the UK.

Nearly every organisation pursues strategies to differentiate it from its competitors. According to Haydn Pinnell, MD of Gallium, the essence of business strategy is being different.

Being a responsible corporate citizen today means more than reducing smokestack emissions and toxic waste.

Cloud computing is the latest buzzword to hit the IT industry the world over, writes Dawie Bloomberg, business services director at The Webcom Group. However, due to connectivity and infrastructure issues locally, this model has been slow to take off, as cloud applications tend to be bandwidth intensive and South Africa's networks have not been able to support them.

As part of an outsourcing deal, technology solutions and people resources integrator, Intuate Group, has developed and implemented a comprehensive performance management and business analytics solution at leading clothing, footwear and textiles retailing group Edcon.

Performance-driven culture will be one of the four disciplines required to support a pattern-based strategy, according to Gartner. It predicts that through 2015, organisations that implement it supported by performance management applications will outperform their peers by at least 30%.

As business and IT leaders look for opportunities to gain a competitive advantage, a Pattern-Based Strategy will enable them to drive change, rather than react to it, according to Gartner. These leaders will need to focus on four disciplines to successfully adopt a Pattern-Based Strategy.

The inevitable marriage of Lean principles and ERP solutions will have an interesting impact on both, writes Conrad Steyn, co-founder of Barnstone, which has managed ERP value extraction for companies including Lonmin, ABSA and Liberty.

Informatica has outlined five key opportunities for IT organisations to significantly reduce their “Keep The Lights On (KTLO)” budget through efficient data management and thus free up funds for more strategic IT activities.