Aug 24, 2017
The Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) are just some of the technology phrases that are becoming part of business discussions at insurance companies across South Africa. Kelly Preston, data analytics manager at SilverBridge, discusses how they...
Aug 11, 2017
Niral Patel, MD of Oracle South Africa, discusses the role people, data and machines must play in forming the data-driven businesses of tomorrow. Data, as a raw material with a recognised value, is often likened to gold. Just as prospectors once crossed continents in...
Aug 2, 2017
Small business growth is being hindered by a lack of access to finance as entrepreneurs struggle with antiquated bank assessments that rely too heavily on outdated manual processes and criteria, writes Trevor Gosling, CEO of Lulalend. In the 2016 National Small...
Jul 18, 2017
The volume of data that the billions of things lying at the edge of the Internet of Things (IoT) will generate needs a comprehensive strategy for protocol mediation, processing, analysing, storing, securing, applying, and even sharing data to deliver value-creating...
Jul 17, 2017
Young South Africans are concerned about the impact emerging technology will have on job stability. F5 Networks senior systems engineer Martin Walshaw explores the challenges and opportunities ahead. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning...
Jul 13, 2017
Analytics has become essential to drive the intelligent businesses. However, with the addition of this multitude of unstructured data – think email, videos, photos, audio files, presentations, webpages – businesses have had to find a new way to pool,...
