Data quality critical for accurate billing

The ability to collect payments is the cornerstone of any successful business, writes Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management. However, studies indicate that organisations may lose as much as six percent of their potential revenue because of discrepancies between...

Data Visualisation: a new way of making it work

Your data, your company’s most valuable asset. Applications use data to run but more importantly, it is the data they generate that gets used by businesses to do the analyses required to understand their customers, their competitors and their way forward....

Business intelligence: waste of time or way of the future?

Imagine a company where the CEO walks into his office at 8am and spends just 30 minutes on his strategic dashboard. Imagine that in these mere 30 minutes he is able to know exactly what sales are in the pipeline; what problems there are in the factory; where HR is in...

AI is in your hands

Artificial intelligence is usually associated with futuristic sci-fi movies and the rise of the machines against humanity. What many people don’t realise is that it’s commonplace today, and something you’ve probably not noticed has become a critical...

Big data: a secret weapon for SMEs?

According to Forbes magazine, 89% of business leaders believe big data will revolutionise business operations in the same way the Internet did. Naturally this does not only refer to big business, as small and medium sized companies are becoming more significant daily....

Cognitive analytics: from hindsight, to insight, to foresight

As organisations progress through the analytics maturity curve – from descriptive, to diagnostic, to predictive, to prescriptive – they can build the systems to enable rapid transformation. Gavin Holme, country manager: Africa at Wipro, and Rudraksh...