Sep 23, 2013
Individuals who have studied marketing will know about the connection between beer and diapers. It’s all about pattern recognition: how raw information can become useful when it’s interpreted and applied in the right way. According to Dimension Data, that’s where big...
Sep 20, 2013
What is so new about big data, the tech buzzword that is attracting so much attention these days? After all, plenty of organisations, from global telecommunications companies to stock exchanges, have been handling and sifting through massive amounts of data for years....
Sep 17, 2013
While IT staff talk about “data as an asset” rather glibly in the boardroom, the value of digital information in an organisation is interpreted quite differently from the accounting department’s perspective, says Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data...
Sep 17, 2013
When building software or even implementing an application, testing is vital – and good testing requires data. Ziaan Hattingh, managing director of IndigoCube, a company that enables and improves the productivity of the application life cycle in large...
Sep 13, 2013
Data governance trumps big data and this can demonstrated with the recent National Security Agency (NSA) extradition debacle, says Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management. Briefly, Edward Snowden is an American computer specialist who worked for the Central...
Sep 10, 2013
Until recently, the torrent of data flooding our world has been a phenomenon that probably only excited a few data geeks. But we are now at an inflection point. The history of previous trends in IT investment and innovation and their impact on competitiveness and...
