Swimming in data but struggling for insights

Though data is the lifeblood of any organisation, companies are using just a fraction of this vital information. JP Smith, Pre Sales Director, Sub-Saharan Africa at Hitachi Vantara explains why. There’s a long-standing myth that we only use 10% of our brains....

Expect more mind-blowing tech developments

2018 will once again see technology deliver incredible results. Aneshan Ramaloo, senior business solutions manager at SAS provides a closer look at the trends which will shape these developments. It used to take months to be able to say whether a particular treatment...

Adding intelligence to the property game

Machine learning offers enormous opportunities to all areas of the real estate market, writes Vian Chinner, CEO of Xineoh. Much discussed as a revolutionary technology of the future, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already having an impact in the present, reshaping...

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...