How to pick a machine learning investment manager

The significant transformative impact that artificial intelligence (AI) will inevitably have on the world is continually becoming more widely acknowledged. With this, investment management companies of all ethos and sizes across the globe appear to be in a race to...

Blockchain and the AI opportunity

Renting a car can be a time-consuming process. You have to go to the rental agency, wait for the attendant to fill out the leasing forms, which you must then check and sign before even getting sight of the keys. It’s a hassle and that’s even when you...

Data integration a ‘must-have’ for cloud enterprises

Cloud integration is rapidly becoming one of 2018’s top software trends. Andrea Tucker, business applications head (R&D) at e4, says that developing data integration is proving to be a ‘must-have’ for cloud-focused enterprises and service...

Hollard Life Namibia embraces analytics

Hollard Namibia, the largest privately-owned insurance group in the country, has contracted SilverBridge Holdings to implement a Microsoft-based business intelligence (BI) solution and enable it to extract meaningful insights from its data to help drive business...

Data curation is the answer to business success

The digital shift is fundamentally altering the way we do business, in effect taking away the power of big business – and handing more of this power over to the consumer who is now more able to call the shots on what they want and how they want it served. By...

Integrated analytics get to the “why” faster

Many analytics tools are great at telling you what happened – but not so great at explaining why. By Gustav Piater, sales and marketing director of AIGS (Yellowfin BI South Africa) Discovering and presenting the ‘why’, making decisions and then...