The importance of an effective data management plan

With an overload of data now available, who really knows how to manage it? By Alasdair Parsonson, technical expert: data intelligence at Hitachi Vantara Data management is more important than ever as it demonstrates the value of analytics in allowing a company to make...

How AI can predict consumer behaviour

By Vian Chinner, CEO of Xineoh – It’s June. In Durban. In a clothing store in the main street, a 26-year old marathon-runner buys a bowtie and, seemingly randomly, adds a board short in the mix before he pays for the items. Two months later a 32-year old...

Hospital equipment supplier benefits from Qlik Sense analytics

Decision Inc has implemented the Qlik Sense next-generation analytics platform at Medical Innovations to enhance the data its sales team needs to drive growth while delivering more interactive reports. Medical Innovations was formed in 1988 and has subsequently become...

Prepare for the jump to hyperscale

The ability to gain insight from vast and ever-growing repositories of data can potentially be a source of significant competitive advantage. However, this kind of analytics requires an entirely new approach to infrastructure. By Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data...

Working towards better data management

Big data is seeing organisations becoming more mindful of aligning their data management practices with newer paradigms such as data lakes, elastic and cluster computing, and realtime data. As such, the cloud provides an environment capable of managing the volume and...

Leadhome forms BI task team, looks to AI

Having established a powerful data-driven culture and offering, real estate disruptor, Leadhome, has announced the appointment of Louise de Beer, as its head of business intelligence (BI) and data science. Tasked with forming this new division, de Beer says that her...