The 4th annual IT Leaders Africa Summit will be held in South
Africa's city of gold, Johannesburg from 14 to 15 March 2013. The summit is
hosted and produced by international business-to-business conferencing company,
Kinetic Events. The IT Leaders Summit series is hosted in strategic locations
all over the world including Johannesburg, Dubai, Ghana, Cape Town and Nairobi.
The series hosts over 150 CIOs and senior IT executives representing leading
companies from the respective regions.
South Africa, Republic of, Jan, 2013 - Enterprise mobility enables
the enterprise workforce to gain instant access to corporate information
through mobile applications anywhere and at any time. Enterprises are
fundamentally changing the way they operate business processes, and in order to
remain competitive, organisations are forced to make enterprise applications
easily accessible through mobile devices. South Africa is known as one of the
fastest growing mobile communications markets in the world and
telecommunications is one of the fastest growing sectors within South Africa's
economy. Driven by the rapid growth in mobile and broadband connectivity in
recent years, South Africa boasts a network that is reportedly 99.9% digital.
According to a recently released report reveals the target of 30%
growth of mobile application deployments per year. Devices for the enterprise
have continued to greatly impact the contemporary business world through new
technologies and services that could potentially improve productivity and
communication in the industry. Improved mobile productivity resulting from improved
mobile access to enterprise software and information could result in a greater
ROI for the enterprise investing in mobile communications, resulting in the
enterprise seeing overall improved sales and communication.
With the enterprise allowing employees access to mobile, instant
communication and access to corporate information, enterprise mobility vastly
improves productivity through providing the information as and when it is
required. The continual increase of companies moving to the mobile applications
to further improve work productivity, it's essential to evolve your
enterprise into the next generation of technological advancements available to
the industry.
The majority of enterprises are looking to mobility for cost
savings, responding to employee demand.
The next generation in enterprise computing has arrived, and the industry-wide
focus is on mobile-centric solutions. Locally, about 60% of South Africans
experience the Internet on a mobile device. The increase in mobility in our
personal lives is a concept that organisations must embrace to experience the
full calibre of benefits to the business. Enterprise mobility will have the
ability to provide instant access to information through mobile applications,
anywhere, anytime.
The IT Leaders Africa Summit is set to address issues and
challenges associated with BYOD security, enabling IT to provide detailed
security requirements for each individual personal device used in the workplace
and connected to the corporate network. Solutions and tactics to be discussed
will include configured networks with passwords prohibiting certain
applications from being installed on the device or requiring all data on the
device to be encrypted. Other BYOD security policy initiatives to be addressed
will also include possibly limiting activities that employees are allowed to
perform on these devices at the work place.
The
propagation of mobile technology is fundamentally changing the way corporate do
business, engage with the world around them and communicate. The evolution of
the mobile practice in internet technology has led to the IT restructuring and
the introduction of bring your own device (BYOD) networks within the
enterprise. The summit will address inherent security and infrastructural
issues and challenges that these networks pose to South African and African
businesses and business practices, and what the effects on the growth of
business applications and mobile business will have on traditional industries
including finance, banking and retail.
The IT Leaders Africa Summit provides an exclusive
business-to-business platform to share, network and engage in a focused
interactive environment with IT industry peers, senior executives, government
officials, senior decision makers, IT leaders and international guests. The
summit aims to address information technology and communications challenges,
operational excellence, and technological advancements impacting the enterprise
with strategic guidance and actionable tactics. Africa's IT industry will
discover efficient methods to deliver IT projects and services, resulting in
business growth and innovation, and successfully leveraging existing resources
and investments.
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