Feb 12, 2014
The annual Teradata User Group conference hosted by Bytes Universal Systems (BUS) took place in Johannesburg last week. BUS is the sole local distributor of Teradata’s products in sub-Saharan Africa. The fifth of its kind, this year’s conference brought a number...
Feb 11, 2014
Chances are that you have heard about big data, perhaps even worked with it, and even tried to make sense of it in a business context. And when it comes to business intelligence (BI) and relational databases, the ability to make realtime decisions is critical. Now...
Jan 31, 2014
Machine-to-machine communication (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT) permeate all aspects of life and business these days, including in cars, parking spaces, conference rooms – even wrist watches and agricultural irrigation systems. Everything on earth is in the...
Jan 28, 2014
Data warehousing was most certainly an important stage and milestone for large amounts of data that needed to be stored over the years. But, in many ways, data warehousing is just like a locker where info is stored away – and companies are often unable to drill down...
Jan 20, 2014
In critical environments such as laboratories, clean rooms and data centres, energy use can far exceed that of similarly sized office space, Neil Cameron, area GM, Johnson Controls Building Efficiency Africa. Improvements in technology and advances in energy...
Jan 20, 2014
Recent research conducted by Aite Group highlighted the link between poor data quality and regulatory penalties, further creating a case for financial services organisations to improve their data quality. Poor data quality can lead to an adverse conclusion by...
