Aug 4, 2020
Data is key in helping to deal with the impact of Covid-19 and intelligent systems can help organisations allocate resources more efficiently. By Akesh Lalla, SAS country manager This pandemic has impacted the world, affecting multiple sectors on a global scale. Being...
Aug 4, 2020
If data is the oil of the digital age, then analytics is the electricity that delivers the current, giving the insights necessary to affect change. By Paul Morgan, business unit lead for data, planning and analytics at Altron Karabina Just like oil, unrefined data is...
Jul 30, 2020
Big data has been a hot topic for years now, with predictions about its impact ranging from organisations being able to provide services specifically tailored to individuals, to “big brother” governments having and in-depth view into every aspect of a...
Jul 28, 2020
By Tshilidzi Marwala – Not long ago, I asked one of my doctoral students a pertinent question about the validity of models developed by the vociferous personalities in the artificial intelligence (AI) community in South Africa as we battle the coronavirus...
Jul 27, 2020
Due to the inherent nature of Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI-powered industries naturally tend towards monopolisation. By Angelo Tzarevski, senior associate; and Kirsty Gibson, candidate attorney in the competition and antitrust practice at Baker McKenzie...
Jul 23, 2020
When analytics is infused with artificial intelligence (AI), businesses can start to truly enhance productivity amongst the human workforce. This is according to Clinton Scott, managing director at TechSoft International, who says that when analytics is augmented with...
