Aug 8, 2013
Successful companies know that achieving a competitive advantage in today’s market is largely a function of deploying better and more advanced analytics to a growing variety of data sets, says Johan Jurd, MD of InfoBuild, representing Information Builders in SA....
Aug 7, 2013
It has been suggested by an eMarketer report entitled Worldwide Social Network Users: 2013 Forecast and Comparative Estimates, that approximately one in four people worldwide will use social networks in 2013. Further to this, the number of social network users...
Aug 2, 2013
Data integration and migration challenges arise every time an organisation moves to a new data system, or wishes to combine multiple data systems, either internally or as a result of a merger, says Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management. This is a significant...
Jul 26, 2013
As anyone who has shopped at one of the major global online retailers knows, buying patterns are carefully monitored by the site. What users buy, what products they browse – sometimes even how they navigate through a single page – all is recorded and fed...
Jul 23, 2013
For more than 20 years, adoption has been the key hurdle in the business intelligence (BI) industry. Average BI usage is only about 10% to 20%, says Johan Jurd, MD of InfoBuild, representing Information Builders in SA. Every business is at some stage involved in some...
Jul 17, 2013
In most organisations, C-level executives have a specific function. The CFO looks after finance, the CEO execution and strategy, and the CMO marketing. The exception is the chief information officer (CIO) who can fulfil anything from infrastructure planning and...
