{"id":56,"date":"2013-10-21T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T08:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.viadata.co.za\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2014-07-14T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T12:37:40","slug":"uct-is-expo-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/uct-is-expo-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"UCT IS Expo 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_62\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/\/www.viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/139.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62\" title=\"Team TechInsights\" src=\"\/\/www.viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/139-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/139-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/139-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The winning team with the ViaData Shield<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The annual IS Expo for 3<sup>rd<\/sup> and 4<sup>th<\/sup> year students took place at Jamieson Hall, UCT on the 9<sup>th<\/sup> of October 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Expo is an opportunity for the local business community to view the quality of work coming out of the University and this year did not disappoint.\u00a0 Students produced would work of an exceptionally high standard and selecting prize winners was not an easy task for the markers.<\/p>\n<p>The ViaData shield was presented to the winning 3<sup>rd<\/sup> year group for the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> year by ViaData MD, Craig Byren.\u00a0 In congratulating the students, Craig spoke of why ViaData has continued to support the UCT IS Department for all these years \u2013 and it comes down to one simple word \u2013\u201cPASSION\u201d.\u00a0 Each year the enthusiasm and passion of the students shines through and re-invigorates the ViaData staff who are able to attend. We are reminded why the job we are lucky enough to do, \u00a0is one of the most challenging and rewarding available.<\/p>\n<p>This year the winning team of students, team TechInsights developed a system called JAMP with the assistance of OpenBox Software.\u00a0 Jamp is an online Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system targeting Small and Medium size businesses (SME\u2019s). Jamp aims to provide business owners with simple yet comprehensive tools to manage different aspects of their business\u201a including Sales\u201a Inventory\u201a Customers\u201a Suppliers and Employees. Jamp takes advantage of responsive design technology to cater for desktops\u201a tablets and smart phones and is thus an easily accessible web application for all small and medium sized business owners to use.<\/p>\n<p>The team of Papa Bengu , Jonathan Froon\u201a Ace Gazi\u201a Masupha Letsie were presented with the ViaData Shield and a cash prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual IS Expo for 3rd and 4th year students took place at Jamieson Hall, UCT on the 9th of October 2013. The Expo is an opportunity for the local business community to view the quality of work coming out of the University and this year did not disappoint.\u00a0 Students produced would work of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viadata.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}