Oct 13, 2017
Despite advances in business intelligence (BI), insurers are finding it difficult to reconcile numerous data repositories and gain a unified view of the customer. Kelly Preston, data analytics manager at SilverBridge, discusses how the BI approach can be improved on...
Oct 12, 2017
With consumers expecting their service providers to deliver more tailored products providing better experiences at more cost-effective rates, insurers are under pressure to adapt their business models to ones better suited to this new environment. Given its mainstream...
Oct 10, 2017
SBI Holdings and NEC have jointly embarked on what they believe to be the industry’s first demonstration trial of Know Your Customer (KYC) operations infrastructure equipped with blockchain technology. The trial is in co-operation with 14 financial institutions...
Oct 9, 2017
Oracle president of product development Thomas Kurian has announced that Oracle Academy will join forces with Bloodhound SSC Education, a non-profit organisation established by the Bloodhound Project, to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. The...
Oct 6, 2017
The South African higher education system is congested, with students taking too long to pass qualifications. There are currently 1-million higher education students in the system, 400 000 of which are causing a bottleneck in the system, making it difficult for new...
Oct 5, 2017
Connected commerce vendor Diebold Nixdorf is partnering with Decathlon, a leading sports retailer, to supply point-of-sale (POS) systems and software to its first megastore in South Africa. The new POS systems include both barcode scanners and radio frequency...
