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 [...]

Space Age Rugby World Cup Supporter Challenge 2011

“Tamatie sous, tamatie sous, BOOOOEREWORS!” could be heard bellowing from our kitchen as the winning team presented the South African version of the haka. The team’s offices were decorated with every kind of green and gold rugby paraphernalia you could imagine and there was a definite patriotic vibe pacing through our offices.
It was mostly fun [...]

Ensuring your CSI contribution has long term effects

If you have yet to realise the long term effect your CSI contribution can make in the lives of deserving children in South Africa, please continue reading further:
As a corporate in South Africa with a keen sense of responsibility towards social development in our community, we recognised that our CSI contribution can be an incredible [...]

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 [...]

Space Age vindicated for supporting Microsoft’s Hyper-V

I was asked to explain why Space Age Technologies uses virtualisation and the Microsoft implementation of that in the form of Hyper-V recently and I honestly was initially stumped as to how I should reply. Virtualised servers are now so much a part of how I look at server infrastructure that I hardly consider any [...]

Mandela Day 2011 – 67 pairs of shoes for 67 pairs of deserving feet

This Mandela Day 80 lucky little grubby faces were greeted by representatives from Space Age Technologies handing out neatly wrapped boxes bearing new school shoes. These excited, toothless smiles all dirty from running around on the playground all day, made our day so much more special. This year for Mandela Day, Space Age Technologies in association [...]

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, [...]

Governance, Risk and Compliance

Support, sustain and grow the organisation while managing risks and constraints (governance, risk and compliance)
This article serves as a brief overview of the concept of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and how to approach, address and manage it. Our clients often ask what they need to do to comply and why they have even to [...]

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 [...]

Team Service Management Function

 
Team SMF describes and defines the key principles for building and maintaining an IT organisation that is accountable, responsible, flexible and scalable.
 

 
The premise of Team SMF is that the goal of an IT department is to deliver IT services to fit the needs of their respective organisations. In order to do this they must:

Understand the [...]