Apr 9, 2015
Load-shedding is a fiery topic of debate across South Africa at present. However, an insufficient power station capacity to supply customer demand (load) causing the electricity system (grid) to become unbalanced and collapse, is not the only reason for blackouts...
Apr 9, 2015
Now is the ideal time for Eskom to use advanced analytics to improve decision-making and better handle South Africa’s power crisis, says Kroshlen Moodley, GM: Public Sector and Utilities at SAS. Eskom has always used a degree of analytics to manage power supply....
Apr 8, 2015
Being connected means having access to real-time information at the swipe of a screen or the opening of an app, says Anthony Rodriguez, solutions manager for BI-Blue Consulting. But with business users increasingly relying on cloud or shared service storage as a...
Apr 1, 2015
Smarter use of data collected from production and better collaboration between different parts of the enterprise offers asset-intensive South African companies a significant opportunity to reduce production disruptions, increase utilisation of production resources and...
Mar 31, 2015
In order to achieve reporting efficiency and effectiveness, Afrimat, a construction supplies manufacturer servicing the construction, transport and mining sectors, has implemented the QlikView analytics and data visualisation solution with business intelligence...
Mar 30, 2015
With one third of CIOs deciding that the current skills and expertise in their business are insufficient to facilitate their plans for IT transformation, this is an exciting but risky time to be a CIO. That’s the opinion of Servaas Venter, country manager of EMC...
