Archive for 'Business'

Is ‘IT’ really that important to companies in the tourism industry?

This month we focus on IT in the tourism industry and what aspects of technology are seen to be important from both an operational side of a company, to how ‘new technologies’ are improving the industry.
Sure Giltedge Travel has been a client of Space Age for more than 3 years, over the last few months [...]

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Healthy IT- How Vital Health Foods makes use of IT

How do we deliver a healthy IT service experience at Vital Health Foods?
The problem
Since 2005 Space Age has been providing a fulltime onsite resource to Vital Health Foods (Vital) in order to fulfil their IT support demand. As Vital has over 160 computer users it made sense to have a fulltime onsite IT resource. The [...]

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How Billabong ‘surfer giant’ makes use of IT

How Billabong ‘surfer giant’ makes use of IT

With Christmas around the corner we thought it may be interesting to find out how a company in the retail industry would benefit from technology.  Heston Paules one of our solution consultants discusses how technology can benefit a company such as Billabong South Africa.
The problem:
Billabong South Africa was faced with an IT platform that was [...]

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IT in the Poultry Industry

Following our previous article on how a company in the wine industry makes use of technology, we thought it may be interesting to find out how a company in the poultry industry would benefit from technology. This time we showcase Elgin Free Range Chickens (Pty) Ltd.
Once again, I have decided to keep this article short [...]

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Technologies which are crucial for the Wine Industry

Technologies which are crucial for the Wine Industry

With the Franschhoek Uncorked Festival happening this weekend, we thought it may be interesting to our readers to find out a little more about how a company in the wine industry (such as Graham Beck) makes use of technology, what different Line of Business applications are out there, as well as new technologies which may [...]

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Andre Carinus of Carinus Strydom on IT and the paperless office

Andre Carinus of Carinus Strydom on IT and the paperless office

Andre Carinus, director and financial advisor at Carinus Strydom (Pty) Ltd, one of Space Age’s clients talks about how dependent his company has become on IT and why he believes a paperless solution is a possible way forward.
If I had to ask you how to describe to me what the term “IT” means to you, [...]

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Social Networking – where to draw the line?

There have been plenty of articles published about online social networking since the early 2000’s from ‘why employees should be able to social network’ to ‘how it will benefit your company’ the list just goes on and on….
But what is it about social online networking that draws people and when does it become just ‘too [...]

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Step 2 – Getting known using the Internet

In Step 2 of 6 Easy Steps to set up your IT when you are starting up your own business, we deal with how to make use of the Internet to inform your target market about your company, products and / or services, as well as attracting additional customers.
Domain Registration
To provide your company with a [...]

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Finfocus’ Director of IT talks about what IT means in his business

Finfocus’ Director of IT talks about what IT means in his business

Over the last decade technology has progressed at a rapid pace, and I am sure 2011 holds even more unexpected surprises. With technology changing, companies are relying more and more heavily on IT for their companies to function optimally.
This has sparked a lot of interest about what technology excites business owners from a personal to [...]

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What can we expect from IT in 2011?

2010 was the year in which the long-awaited “Consumerisation of IT” changed the way people interacted with IT. Smartphone adoption exploded, and Apple changed the game, with their tablet device, the iPad – eclipsing the dramatic rise of netbooks during the previous year. What can we expect from the year ahead?
Consumerisation was characterised by “BYOC”, [...]

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