Blockchain and the Future of Finance

The banking sector is an ancient one with prototype banks identified as early as 2000 BC in Babylon and Assyria, but they have also been partly responsible for a lot of economic blunders in recent... 

Big brands to celebrate 50 years of supply chain excellence

Syspro, Barloworld Logistics, and Bidvest Panalpina Logistics have all signed up to celebrate the 50th birthday of SAPICS, the community for supply chain professionals in southern Africa. The... 

What the heck are Negative Interest Rates?

The European Central Bank recently cut interest rates across the Eurozone to zero. In January, the Bank of Japan surprised the world with its negative interest rate monetary policy shift. While... 

Boosting the Customer Experience with Innovative Technology

If there are two phrases that permeated the global marketplace in 2015, they were ‘customer engagement’ and ‘economic uncertainty’. Technology has a role to play in enabling the former and... 

What the Bank of Japan and Software have in Common

As our expectations of technology become more demanding, simplicity and flexibility continue to influence software conceptualization and development. The Bank of Japan’s recent decision to use... 

SYSPRO Enterprise Resource Planning

SYSPRO, founded in 1978, is the leading global supplier of on-premise, cloud and mobile business eneterprise resource planning (ERP) software for manufacturers and distributors.  Scalable for rapid...