International data warehousing and business intelligence experts Ralph Kimball and Bob Becker will present Kimball University’s four-day ETL architecture in-depth from 26 to 29 October. The class will be hosted by Sybase South Africa’s BI Practice at the Southern Sun Montecasino Hotel in Fourways, Johannesburg.

Sybase has announced strong growth in adoption of Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), its high-performance relational database management system for mission-critical, data-intensive environments.

Japan-based Oita Bank has selected SAS and Teradata, the world’s largest company solely focused on data warehousing, to help revitalise its business intelligence capabilities.

SAS Institute has announced new releases of three of its analytics products, aimed at arming organisations with econometric, optimisation and statistical capabilities that surface opportunities, mitigate risk and streamline business processes.

ASYST Intelligence – a focused provider of strategic business intelligence and data management solutions to companies in Africa – has developed easy-to-use Graphical Business Intelligence (GBI) solutions that empower users to graphically represent business information on maps.

Business analytics leader SAS holds a commanding 34.7% market share in advanced analytics tools, up from 32.9% a year ago, according to leading industry analyst firm IDC.

At a recent breakfast hosted by SAS Institute, international industry expert Peter Turney, CEO of Cost Technology, explored customer profitability as the hidden opportunity for sustainable bottom line growth.

Agile business intelligence (BI) methodology is experiencing a resurgence as the preferred way of implementing BI programs to deliver the organisational agility and flexibility required in today’s competitive environment.

The master data management (MDM) skills shortage could upset enterprise data management plans unless businesses get their ducks in a row, writes Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID).

Traditional business intelligence (BI) has time and again proved its usefulness as a tool for providing information around strategic planning and high-level decision-making, writes Gerrit-Jan Albers, business intelligence consultant at RDB Consulting.

After two decades, demand for business intelligence remains highwrites Greg Bogiages, director at Cortell Corporate Performance Management.

Efficiently capturing invoice data is a prerequisite to efficient downstream processing, and the Kofax Solution offers significant savings of approximately R175, according to international figures, per invoice with a reduction in errors and cost disputes along the line – figures that should speak to any CEO’s bottom line and CFO’s heart.