Africa

Sierra Leone: SMEs are the engine to economic growth  

SMEs are critical to achieving goals of economic diversification, including expanding of Sierra Leone’s agriculture-based economy into sectors such as tourism and fisheries, according to a new World Bank...

Reimagining business applications to be better together 

Modern organisations use a range of applications to suit their varied business needs and while this provides flexibility, it also gives rise to the risk of shadow IT. With a distributed work environment now the norm,...

Oracle invests US$1 million to support African tech start-ups 

Oracle has announced support of US$1 million for tech start-ups in Africa that will help accelerate its digital initiatives with the latest cloud technologies and business resources. Led by Oracle for Startups, Oracle...

The ABCs of ERPs: a guide to everything you need to know 

Karin Jones, Business Applications Business Group Lead at  Microsoft South Africa, speaks to Intelligent SME.tech about how Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems can help small businesses with...

Start-up to bridge gap between South African enterprises and frontline...

SmartWage, an innovative HR and communications technology start-up, has raised USD$2 million. The oversubscribed seed funding round was raised to support SmartWage’s vision of transforming Africa’s...

Technological inclusion for emerging markets 

RedCloud is on a mission to help small businesses by creating infrastructure for digital marketplaces in emerging economies, such as Peru, Argentina and Nigeria. This helps address the significant technological...

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