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Cabling Partner
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Bringing order to chaos
Building solid foundations with ERP systems
Taking the leap of faith
Reaping the benefits of new technologies
Africa’s ICT pioneer
Morocco’s making progress on ICT journey
EDITOR’S
NOTE
W
elcome to Issue 7 of
Intelligent CIO Africa. For
this month’s cover story we
talk to CEO of Angola Cables, António
Nunes about how the South African
company’s partnership with Ciena
is supporting their global expansion
through SDN solutions.
In response to this increasing global
expansion and competition, African
organisations are beginning to step
up their IT investments. In particular,
we are seeing firms modernise their
business with ERP systems, the
benefits of which are company-wide.
In this magazine we gain insight from
industry experts about how to gain
maximum ROI when implementing
business management software and
we speak with Allied Mobile about how
their organisation is benefitting from
investing in Epicor’s ERP systems.
The ‘Country Focus’ for issue 7 looks at
the ways in which Morocco is a pioneer
of ICT development on the continent,
as well as exploring opportunities for
future development of the country’s
ICT industry.
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Worldwide, digital transformation is
changing not only business processes
and operations but the workplace
environment itself. Alongside BYOD
and co-working spaces is the rapid
rise of remote working, and Africa is
no exception. A recent study by Regus
showed that a third of South Africans
are now working outside of their office
environment. In light of this research,
for this issue’s ‘Editor’s Question’ we ask
industry experts what technologies CIOs
should be utilising to adapt to this new
landscape of digital nomads.
This constant change and introduction
of new technologies can be a
point of anxiety and uncertainty
for some CIOs. However, as James
Parker, Chief Revenue Officer at Tata
Communications, explains, those
businesses who are willing to embrace
new and untried technologies stand to
gain far more than they risk losing. Find
out more in the ‘Tech Talk’ section.
GLOBAL POSITIONING
DRIVES ANGOLA
CABLES INTO SDN
António Nunes, CEO of Angola Cables, discusses how expansion
from Africa-centric activities into global connectivity services
has prompted the company to partner with Ciena.
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to look after your people and predicts
the near future will see an evolution of
technology as oppose to a revolution.
I hope you enjoy the magazine.
Intelligent CIO will be heading to GITEX
in October, if your company is attending
and would like to feature in September’s
‘Africa at GITEX’ article then please get
in touch at [email protected].
Emily, Editor
To conclude this issue we ‘Get to
Know’ Dmitry Okorokov, the CEO of
InfiNet Wireless, who believes the most
important management philosophy is
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