11 November 2008
SME Survey 2008: ADSL comes of age
Five years since its launch, ADSL has finally replaced dialup completely as the connection of choice for the South African SME. This was among the key findings of SME Survey 2008 on the use of information and communication technologies by small to medium South African companies.
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03 November 2008
SME Survey 2008: Micro-enterprises bear brunt of financial turbulence
South African SMEs are feeling the pinch of higher interest rates, as the cost of capital and bad debt begins to rise. While the majority of SMEs appear to be confident in their ability to weather the storm, it is the start-up and micro-enterprise that finds itself at most risk in the face of adversity.
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01 November 2008
2Cana Solutions named KZN ICT Company of the Year
Vindicating its long and excellent reputation for providing high quality and cost-effective business solutions to customers the world over, 2Cana Solutions has been honoured with the Computer Society of SA (CSSA) 2008 KwaZulu-Natal ICT Company of the Year Award.
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28 October 2008
Cash crunch hits SMEs
South African SMEs haven’t forgotten crime, but something more pressing is causing sleepless nights – a cash crisis. This is the shocking interim finding of SME Survey 2008, which indicates that rising fuel and interest rates have surpassed crime and even blackouts as the leading challenge facing small and medium businesses today.
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23 October 2008
South African SMEs show resilience in the face of adversity
Turbulent times have characterised the environment for South African small, medium and micro enterprises (SMEs) in the past year – but most have come through with their competitiveness intact. This emerged with the announcement of the results of the annual SME Survey which indicates that in the main, SMEs have held up remarkably well.
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7 October 2008
Netsurit and Millennium merge to offer SMEs a national support footprint
Netsurit, SA’s largest managed outsourced IT provider specialising in small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has merged with Cape Town-based Millennium Computer Services in a deal that forms part of a merger strategy that Netsurit has chosen to pursue.
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16 September 2008
User Group to Navigate Oracle
The South African Oracle User Group conference, themed ‘Navigate’, will provide local businesses with insights and guidance on how to maximise the value they derive from the extensive technology and applications portfolio of one of the world’s largest enterprise software solutions providers. Scheduled to take place at Sun City from 13-15 October 2008, the lead sponsors of the event are Oracle Corporation South Africa and HP.
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01 August 2008
Crime a daily reality for South African SMEs
Source: SME Survey 2008
One in four small businesses in South Africa has been a victim of crime more than once in the past year, according to the interim findings of SME Survey 2008, the latest edition of South Africa’s largest annual survey of small, medium and micro enterprises.
This shock finding underscores recent police statements that small businesses have increasingly become victims of crime.
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29 May 2008
SME Survey, the largest annual study of factors influencing the competitiveness of small and medium enterprises in South Africa, has scored an international coup. A paper based on the findings of the 2007 edition of the study has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious International Council for Small Business (ICSB) World Conference to be held in Canada in June.
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3 April 2008
SME Survey 2008: Adapting to infrastructure challenges
Are small to medium enterprises coping with power cuts and the prospect of erratic supply for the next half-decade? What about crime? Are other infrastructures failing the SME?
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10 January 2008
Sun Tech Days returns to South Africa in March
Sun Microsystems’ premier worldwide developer conference takes place for the second time in Johannesburg, from 11-13 March 2008 . Based on an overwhelming demand from developers around the world, the Sun Tech Days programme has been expanded to a 15 city world tour which now includes South Africa.
