IDG has been visited by the newspaper South Africa IT Media "Computing SA" recently in 2005 CIO's most concerned issue.
The CIO Frik Van Der MerWe of the Absa Bank puts the security in the first place. He expects that ABSA will not change in terms of continuing attention to identity management, verification and licensing. The second is the requirements of storage, "information classification and information management regulations plus the FICA (Financial Intelligence Center Act), which will have a great impact on the storage system. This impact will affect the file management and imaging system, because It is impossible to save all this information on disk. We will increase your strength next year. "
Specially engaged in retail business, CIO Henri Slabbert of EdCon Group with Edgars, Jet and Boardmans brands, said RFID is the most important technology. He said: "RFID is a technique of everyone in the retail industry. In the next two or three years, the practical system will appear, and there will be only one or two isolated RFID systems. We plan to deploy RFID next year, especially in the distribution system Among the SLABBERT schedule, the second is a single monitoring and management software tool that can cover all sides.
Willie Appel, vice president of Meta Group, first mentioned that open source software (OSS). He believes that OSS is not turning fleet fashion, but will make the IT industry a fundamental transformation. "In the next three or five years, almost every IT department will be affected by Linux / open source. Open source is not only free software, it means that manufacturers can get considerable profits from commercial components."
Xantium Technologies CTO Grant Allan also agreed with the view of Appel, but he pointed out that OSS problem was to choose which product. Now there are so many software, no one knows which one will continue for a few years, which will be acquired.
