Cloudera and Mistral partner for enterprise data intelligence
Cloudera and Mistral have announced a strategic partnership to bring secure, sovereign AI directly to enterprise data wherever it resides. Cloudera and Mistral will combine Cloudera’s hybrid data and AI platform with Mistral’s sovereign AI models to give enterprises a...
Absa Bank modernises credit risk management reporting
Absa Bank has partnered with SAS to modernise its credit risk management infrastructure. The credit risk management system – built on SAS Viya, the company’s data and AI platform, and running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reduced reporting cycles by 80% to 90% -...
AI confidence starts with trusted data
Organisations are moving quickly from AI ambition to AI use cases. Employees are already using AI tools in their daily work, while leadership teams want practical ways to improve efficiency, customer experience, decision-making, and competitiveness. “AI confidence...
The biggest opportunity in AI isn’t replacing jobs. It’s removing repetition
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the most talked-about technologies in business, but somewhere along the way, the conversation changed. By Thabang Chukura, founder and CEO of GenerEd and CEO of CMPNY The promise of AI was never simply about replacing...
From fragmentation to integrated decision-making
The impact of market movements can be significant. A rate change can start with deposit pricing, change customer behaviour and funding mix, and then impact up in liquidity, net interest income, credit risk, capital planning, and strategy. By Martim Rocha, senior...
The insight economy is over: AI commoditised consulting advice
For decades, the consulting industry sold two things: access to benchmarked intelligence, and access to bright, relentlessly hardworking talent. Clients paid premium rates to know what their competitors were doing and to borrow the brainpower to figure out how to...
How businesses modernise their IT for an AI-powered future
Modernisation is a discussion that every business’s IT team has at some point. Ten to fifteen years ago, those discussions centred on cloud computing and how hyperscale cloud environments and tools could usher in a new era of agility, security and scalability. By...
Your business doesn’t need more data. It needs a strategy for information advantage
Businesses are surrounded by data. Every sale, invoice, customer query, late payment, abandoned cart, product return and service complaint leaves a trail. By Professor Yudhvir Seetharam, chief analytics officer at FNB South Africa Together, these signals should help a...
Bring dark data into the light before AI can deliver value
With artificial intelligence (AI) moving rapidly from experimentation to strategic priority, today’s businesses are collecting more information than ever before. By Shakeel Jhazbhay, GM: digital business solutions at Datacentrix However, many are overlooking a...
Most data strategies fail before they start
Most organisations do not have a data strategy problem, but one of visibility. Across industries, businesses continue to invest in platforms, tools, and skills to become more data-driven. Yet many of these strategies struggle to deliver sustained value. The reason is...
Dell closes the gap between AI ambition and outcomes
Dell Technologies has announced a broad set of advancements to the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia, delivering the foundation enterprises need to move from AI ambition to realised outcomes. With more than 5 000 customers already deploying the Dell AI Factory, these...
SAS expands SAS Viya with AI
SAS has announced expansions to SAS Viya that advance the platform’s agentic AI features, introducing new AI assistants, agent infrastructure and acceleration tools. Together, these updates build on SAS Viya’s existing AI foundation, helping organisations move from...