Form and function key for business analytics

In a time when data has been labelled ‘the new oil’, businesses are scrambling to implement effective forward-thinking data management strategies that can deliver real-time insights and business value to decision-makers to drive business strategy, increase...

Big value in small business data

I read an interesting article the other day about how a novel targeted at young, single females and housewives wasn’t selling as well as expected, writes Charles Teversham, MD of Sage Intelligence. When the publisher looked deeper into its sales data, it found...

Big data is transforming financial services and film

With every click, swipe and tap big data is changing the playing field for the South African industries. This, the second of a three part series of articles by Morne Bekker, country manager at NetApp South Africa, looks at how big data is changing the financial...

How big data is transforming industries

Morne Bekker, country manager of NetApp South Africa, examines the effect that big data is having on the automotive industry. Big data has become part of every single conversation of business leaders, IT decision makers and public stakeholders. It is much more than a...

Leverage your business’s best asset

Your company’s greatest asset is its data. But to start creating true business value, you need to have the right data strategy in place, says Manfred Gramlich, strategic solutions manager at Hitachi Vantara. You pull up to the curb at the airport and as you exit...

Unlock opportunities with data-driven services

While data is an indispensable part of the business environment, many organisations are still not harnessing its potential. Kelly Preston, data analytics manager at SilverBridge, believes that data-driven services will empower insurers to do so, thereby addressing...