Absa pilots data analytics platform

Absa Bank has launched an internal pilot of its social media and wider unstructured data analytics platform, Barclays Pronto, to select colleagues. Built in-house and entirely on open source technology, Barclays Pronto brings the voice of customers and other users...

Smart Money Movement a boon for SMEs

Sage, the market leader for integrated accounting, payroll, and payment systems has launched a Smart Money Movement solution which offers small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the ability to collect money, make payments, and reconcile effortlessly, through a...

Insurers need to get their [data] act together

Ashley Thomas, assistant executive for insurance software solutions at Innovation Group South Africa, argues that there is a big drive for insurance industry players to clean up their data. Big data has been a topical issue for a number of years and as the need for...

Putting power in the members’ hands

The advent and implementation of new technologies is seeing transparency and control of health, pensions and life insurance schemes being put back in the hands of the schemes’ members or policy holders. Richard Firth, CEO of MIP Holdings, says technology can...

Dialdirect customers earn data to manage their policies

South Africa has 23-million smartphone users and 57% of all Internet traffic comes from mobile devices. It’s predicted that by 2019, there will be an estimated monthly data consumption of 7Gb.  Dialdirect Insurance is responding to this unprecedented growth in...

LG Mobile, Vodacom in Super Rugby device partnership

LG Electronics has announced a Vodacom Super Rugby device partnership with Vodacom for 2016. The Super Rugby device partnership between LG and Vodacom is aimed at clearly positioning that LG is available from Vodacom and ultimately endorsed by Vodacom as their device...