Data management essential for property sector
In an industry where tenant retention and managing vacancies is critical, the property sector is driven by effective data analysis. Without it, property investors cannot hope to operate as effectively as their more digitally-enabled competitors and will lose momentum...
Why companies are still battling to action analytics
If companies want to move forward in their digital transformation strategies, they need to free up the capacity of their IT teams, says JP Smith, director pre-sales emerging EMEA at Hitachi Vantara The latest spate of power cuts has left South Africans with a lot to...
AI and the birth of the next-generation data centre
Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a leading driver of innovation, creating competitive advantages and new business opportunities. By Ian Jansen van Rensburg, VMware EMEA senior systems engineer The proliferation of data is enabling breakthroughs across...
For a successful AIOps integration, avoid these common problems
The explosion in operational data and machine-learning compute capacity is finally enabling AIOps -- artificial intelligence for operations. But like many other technologies, AIOps fits within a larger organizational and systems context, and enterprises need to ensure...
Intelligent automation unlocks business opportunities
The hysteria two decades ago surrounding the millennium bug, Y2K, highlights how since then business and people - both from personal and work standpoint - have changed their views and interactions with technology. This is according to Pommie Lutchman, CEO at Ocular...
Automation, embedded AI drive CFO’s strategic value
The finance function in companies around the world is undergoing fundamental change due to digitisation. Technology developments are compelling finance teams to optimise resources in order to become a more value-add partner to the business. By Sarah George, ERP/EPM...
Data mining in Africa key to brand success
Given how data has been labelled the oil of the digital economy, no company can afford not to effectively mine it for information to inform critical business decisions. But are African organisations embracing this? By Jacques Kuhn, GM of Colony HQ Fundamentally, data...
SAP Leonardo IoT helps shape the intelligent enterprise
SAP has unveiled SAP Leonardo Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities, the technology that generates and drives digital transformation for Industrial IoT and Industry 4.0. In addition, SAP announced the cloud-to-cloud interoperability of SAP Leonardo IoT with Microsoft...
Accenture myConcerto launches in South Africa
Marking the launch of key SAP enterprise solution myConcerto, Accenture recently hosted the SAP Intelligent Enterprise client event in South Africa. "The Intelligent Enterprise event was an affirmation of SAP and Accenture's client-focused partnership," says Christine...
FICO eases analytics, optimization models
FICO has announced a community version of FICO Xpress Insight, a decision support application that enables data scientists to rapidly deploy any advanced analytic or optimisation model as a powerful business application. Across industries, data scientists create...
Saicom develops mobile data analytics platform
Saicom's locally-developed mobile data access point name (APN) platform Saicom.Connect allows businesses to analyse their mobile data usage more effectively, allowing better insights into data usage and ultimately creating cost savings for organisations. According to...
CEO involvement key for big data ROI
Many business owners and CEOs have introduced big data into their operations, yet few can leverage it for a competitive advantage. According to the PwC 22nd annual survey launched at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, CEOs are still failing to take...