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The recent AIGS Progress Africa Delight@Work conference, attended by software developers, business leaders and international delegates from the US and Europe, focused on key topics pertinent to the South African marketplace, such as leadership in the digital age, the cloud and the importance of context-aware technology.

During his keynote address, Dan Veitkus, the GM (EMEA) for Progress Software said that South African companies should not let current concerns, such as bandwidth capability, prevent them from innovating for the future.

"Instead of focusing on the reasons why technologies such as cloud or mobile computing won't work, South Africans should focus on the benefits of shifting their business and applications into that space...because it is going to happen. We're seeing a global change in application development. Technologists need to stop selling these incredible ideas to the heads of IT and start talking to the marketing and sales departments, who have the larger budgets and are able to sponsor innovation."