QlikView, Fourier give TFMC insight

QlikView South Africa has teamed up with consulting engineers and software development firm Fourier Approach to inject future scenario planning into clients’ operations – beginning with the call centre operation of The Facilities Management Company (TFMC).Wessel van...

Nucleus implements Yellowfin BI solution

When Nucleus Supply Chain Management, a leading South African outsource/co-source supply chain management group needed an interactive dashboard solution, it turned to Yellowfin BI. Nucleus provides a high level of specialised services and skills to clients seeking...

Social media BI tools launched

Social media analytics, to a large extent are meaningless. The number of likes, comments and shares are generally worthless statistics. The figures give no real insight into how social media is impacting a brand. Research shows that negative social media comments can...

Data analytics transforms business

Today, every interaction with their customers is recorded and collected by businesses and stored for future use. More and more, companies are trying to find ways to translate these interactions into actionable insights, or data analytics. Gerald Naidoo, CEO of Logikal...

Oracle announces MySQL Fabric

Continuing to drive MySQL innovation, Oracle announced the general availability of MySQL Fabric, an open source framework to manage farms of MySQL servers. Available for download, this integrated and extensible system makes it easier to scale out or add high...

Work collaboration made easier

Today’s global economy is an information economy and the workers that drive it are knowledge workers more than anything else. Jobs consisting of knowledge work make up nearly half the workforce in some markets. At the same time as the Internet connects us...