How AI can predict consumer behaviour
By Vian Chinner, CEO of Xineoh - It's June. In Durban. In a clothing store in the main street, a 26-year old marathon-runner buys a bowtie and, seemingly randomly, adds a board short in the mix before he pays for the items. Two months later a 32-year old retired rugby...
Hospital equipment supplier benefits from Qlik Sense analytics
Decision Inc has implemented the Qlik Sense next-generation analytics platform at Medical Innovations to enhance the data its sales team needs to drive growth while delivering more interactive reports. Medical Innovations was formed in 1988 and has subsequently become...
Prepare for the jump to hyperscale
The ability to gain insight from vast and ever-growing repositories of data can potentially be a source of significant competitive advantage. However, this kind of analytics requires an entirely new approach to infrastructure. By Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data...
Working towards better data management
Big data is seeing organisations becoming more mindful of aligning their data management practices with newer paradigms such as data lakes, elastic and cluster computing, and realtime data. As such, the cloud provides an environment capable of managing the volume and...
Eliminate the queue to lift SA economy
Cutting the time each productive South African spends waiting in line not contributing to the national accounts is a simple and effective way to lift gross domestic product (GDP). That's the word from Laurence Seberini; co-founder of Camatica, a Johannesburg-based...
Leadhome forms BI task team, looks to AI
Having established a powerful data-driven culture and offering, real estate disruptor, Leadhome, has announced the appointment of Louise de Beer, as its head of business intelligence (BI) and data science. Tasked with forming this new division, de Beer says that her...
Gartner outlines barriers to AI adoption
More organisations are adopting artifiial intelligence (AI) -14% of global CIOs have already deployed AI and 48% will deploy it in 2019 or by 2020, according to Gartner's 2019 CIO Agenda survey. "While adoption is increasing, some organisations are still questioning...
AI for enterprise: get the basics right
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the way of the future, but the right foundations have to be in place for an enterprise AI strategy to succeed. By Chris Pallikarides, GM of ITBusiness Machine learning (ML) and AI are certainly the way of the future, offering...
Key benefits of DataOps for businesses
Today companies need the latest data at their fingertips, without it they limit their agility and ability to maneuver potential competition, writes Alasdair Parsonson, technical expert at Data Intelligence for Hitachi Vantara. To cater for the increasing need for data...
Siemon designs future-proof cabling for Sasol HQ
Networking infrastructure specialist Siemon has announced that its technology has been installed throughout Sasol's stunning new 11-storey, 70,000m2 head office complex - Sasol Place - in Sandton. Complementing its state-of-the-art design, Siemon's structured cabling...
Argility launches enhanced DAMSense
The Argility Technology Group has announced the release of an enhanced version of its complete digital asset management (DAM) system, DAMSense, which assists companies to manage and make sense of digital media files in one central and searchable repository platform....
Nvidia, VMware accelerate machine learning, data science, AI workloads
NVidia and VMware have announced their intent to deliver accelerated GPU services for VMware Cloud on AWS to power modern enterprise applications, including AI, machine learning and data analytics workflows. These services will enable customers to seamlessly migrate...