Apr 17, 2014
Information Builders, the provider of business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, has announced the availability of Skybox, a new cloud hosting service that allows companies to test and develop applications for BI...
Apr 16, 2014
Big data has been named a game changer, a paradigm shifter, a cure-all and a must have for all businesses wishing to thrive. Harnessing big data to gain a competitive advantage is a must for today’s organisations, but big data can be a threat too, as it is laden with...
Apr 16, 2014
Budgeting and forecasting are major tasks for the ‘office of finance’ in any organisation and the collection and collation of financial data can take months of preparation. However, in today’s fast-paced world, these time-consuming manual processes can prove to be a...
Apr 16, 2014
A new Data Quality in CRM whitepaper discusses how to leverage an integrated data quality capability to support successful customer relationship management (CRM) solutions help organisations to manage their interactions with customers, making them an essential tool in...
Apr 10, 2014
We often hear talk of how analytics can help businesses and organisations extract valuable insight from their data, but that’s where the conversation ends, says Goran Dragosavac, analytical practitioner at SAS. How does it do this? And what should we do with the...
Mar 31, 2014
Fraud costs organisations is costing organisations across all industries millions of rands. As the amount and sophistication of schemes to defraud businesses increases, many companies are turning to big data analytics to comb through vast volumes of data to reveal...
