Press Office
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.

 
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.
 
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.
 
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?

 
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