Embracing self-service analytics essential for business enablement
As organisations fast-track digital transformation initiatives in the aftermath of the pandemic, access to quality, timeous data has never been more critical. Better client insights, and improved products and services are reliant on information to provide input to...
Don’t let data be a stumbling block in your SAP S/4HANA upgrade
SAP ECC 6.0 is the mainstay of many Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, and with support for the solution being discontinued in the near future, organisations need to migrate their systems. By Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management Whether they are moving...
AfriGIS has verified, validated administrative boundary data for Africa
AfriGIS believes it is the first and only company to offer verified and validated geospatial data on Africa’s administrative boundaries. This is a vital link for many businesses, such as those that want to expand their courier, retail, and financial services...
SAS renews partnership with NWU
SAS has renewed its Global Academic Program (GAP) partnership with the Centre for Business Mathematics and Informatics (BMI) at North-West University (NWU) for another five years, extending its impact in data skills development. The partnership has seen over 500...
Your data strategy must constantly evolve
Many companies have embarked on digital transformation journeys to shift their focus towards becoming data-driven organisations. Fundamental to this is having a data strategy in place that will enable the business to better deal with the complexities of the rapidly...
Embrace DataOps to deliver high-stakes AI
In many use cases, occasional mistakes are fine. It doesn't matter if one out of ten movie recommendations were not what the browser was looking for, so long as most of the time the individual gets to watch something that they enjoy. If not, many people would simply...
Intelligence at the edge drives optimisation, efficiency
Businesses today must be more agile, efficient and proactive than ever, a feat that can only be successfully achieved through digital technologies that deliver enhanced intelligence, including the intelligent cloud, and the ability to process and analyse data at...
Data visualisation a vital tool for policing in SA
The most recent South African crime statistics make for grim reading with double digit growth reported across all assault categories. By Zoe Meyer, software engineer at TechSoft International A budget cut of almost R12-billion for the 2021/2022 fiscal year has done...
How to deliver an actionable data strategy
Recent research shows that approximately 90% of organisations rely on data to drive predictive decision making, yet these same organisations overwhelmingly agree that a backlog of data debt negatively affects their ability to deliver new advanced analytics...
AI tech to predict climate change
Climate change and the accelerated occurrence of natural disasters could arguably be one of the greatest threats facing humanity. By Junaid Kleinschmidt, head of AI and advanced analytics at Altron Systems Integration Just in the last few weeks, we have seen the...
Study shows SAS Viya on Microsoft Azure can deliver 204% ROI
Organisations deploying SAS Viya, SAS' cloud-native AI, analytic and data management platform, on Microsoft Azure can see benefits including a 204% return on investment (ROI) over three years, according to a new commissioned Total Economic Impact study conducted by...
Teaching AI and robotics concepts in business courses
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics are steadily making their way into every industry. From retail companies to healthcare practices that use AI-driven robots for medical processes, the applications are proving to be endless. This is why 85% of companies plan to...