Accounting for the value of data in business

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...

Total data management solutions needed

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...

Data governance must drive big data strategy

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...

Big data offers competitive edge

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...

How LegalWise wised up to BI

LegalWise is a provider of affordable face to face legal assistance and advice, and also provides access to the services of a lawyer for those LegalWise members who need legal representation. Their reputation is such that one phone call by the company’s legal...

BI to boom as users seek competitive edge

Next generation business intelligence (BI) is rapidly being accepted as the critical tool for business success, says Ayanda Dlamini, business development manager of LGR Telecommunications. Knowledge is power, and never more so than now, when access to the right...