Get better value by extending your data management architecture

For many years, the South African banking sector has strived to comply with international financial regulations, such as Basel II and its successors, in order to ensure cost effective access to global markets. By Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management With its...

From AI to intelligent AI and a whole new world for business

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not a new concept, but in recent years technological developments around it have begun to dramatically accelerate, thanks to greater availability of data, sophisticated analytical tools and more. By Sarthak Rohal, vice-president: IT...

Skills development in IT key to customer service and a circular economy

Information technology (IT) skills remain in very short supply in Kenya, with a lack of senior technical resources available in-country to provide skills development and transfer. Sending people overseas to receive vendor certifications is cost-prohibitive, and while...

Data scientists only add about 30 days of value before changing jobs

A recent post by Alastair Adam on LinkedIn discusses the disastrously high churn rate of data scientists. By Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management The post asserts that most data scientists change jobs every 19 months, on average. Around 12 months is spent...

Analytics predictions for 2023

In 2022, the world adjusted to and worked to recover from a global pandemic and international conflict that displaced millions of families. This was compounded by global energy costs increasing sharply, while and supply chain issues and other disruptions persisted...

Investment in data can improve business agility, customer experience

We live in a new reality post-Covid-19, where customers are more digitally savvy, online 24/7 and have easy access to more options than ever before. By Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management Businesses need to adapt to this new reality, or they will be at a...