Oct 8, 2013
The rollout and adoption of cloud services in South Africa is inhibited by extraneous circumstances. And there is currently little optimism that these constraints will soon be overcome, says Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID). In the world...
Oct 8, 2013
Are we “drowning in data”? Davide Hanan, MD of QlikView SA explains how all humans are naturally data analysts if we’re presented with information in the right way. I’m often asked if we are now faced with too much data to analyse; a ‘data deluge’ if you...
Oct 8, 2013
Effectively using big data is not about sifting through a wealth of historical data, it is about focusing on the ‘now’ within the data, says Ayanda Dlamini, business development manager of LGR Telecommunications. Amid the daunting volumes of digitised data now in...
Oct 4, 2013
Many IT markets work in cycles. For example, the centralised infrastructure of the mainframe was replaced with the broad de-centralising effect of the PC, and the pendulum has swung back to centralised again as cloud services on central hosts take over. In the...
Oct 3, 2013
Lacklustre retail statistics are coming under further pressure from ever-rising petrol prices, job cuts and diminishing consumer confidence. Smart retailers are looking for ways to get more out of each hard won customer. Ian Steyn, products and services executive at...
Oct 2, 2013
Gartner says that poor data quality is a primary reason for 40% of business initiatives failing to achieve their targeted benefits. Data quality also affects the overall labour productivity by as much as 20%. Information management and data integration are expected to...
