Jul 24, 2015
Thanks to the increasing number of connected devices, the volume of data has exploded. In fact, expectations are that the digital world will contain 44-trillion gigabytes of data by 2020. Armandè Kruger, regional sales director at PBT Group, examines this changing...
Jul 22, 2015
Visual data analytics is a lot like painting a picture. The image might not look like much in the beginning as you play around with different brush strokes, colours and materials. But after time, and with a little experimentation, a picture starts to take shape and...
Jul 20, 2015
Intelligent, connected technology is a growing trend, and property owners and managers, particularly in the retail space, are either constructing smart buildings from the ground up or retrofitting existing buildings with smart solutions, says Marco Da Silva, MD of...
Jul 16, 2015
CIOs today are increasingly being asked to extract greater value from the data residing within the organisation – transforming information into a valuable asset that the organisation can use as the springboard to future success. This issue was explored in depth by...
Jul 10, 2015
Dark data is a relatively new term to the industry, defined by Gartner “as the information assets organisations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes (for example, analytics, business relationships...
Jun 17, 2015
Analytics (or rather deriving insights from data) is an emerging field in South Africa. Due to differing strategic views, lack of infrastructure, or lack of skilled resources, few companies have fully capitalised on the information available in their local markets,...
