Techno Brain partners with Zap
Techno Brain Group has signed a major distribution contract with ZAP for sales and channel partnerships of its data management and analytics software across Middle East and Africa. Techno Brain will deliver ZAP Data Hub, pre-packaged data management and analytics...
Lenovo, Mark III demo AI in manufacturing
Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved out of the realm of scary sci-fi movies and into our homes and offices. It has implications for every industry, and smart organizations are realizing that AI will soon need to be an integral part of their business if they are...
IBM launches new AI solutions
IBM has launched new Watson solutions and services pre-trained for a variety of industries and professions including agriculture, customer service, human resources, supply chain, manufacturing, building management, automotive, marketing, and advertising. "As data...
Liquid Telecom partners with Zindi
Liquid Telecom has announced a partnership with Zindi to support the rollout of its new data science competition platform across Africa. Zindi was launched last week at the AI Expo Africa in Cape Town, providing a platform for African data scientists to "convene,...
How to battle information complexity in life sciences
Almost all organisations, no matter the industry, are facing the need to manage and store information securely. By Lenore Kerrigan, country sales director of OpenText Life sciences companies are no exception - the drug development process is information and data...
Predicting the big data election race
With digital personalised targeting using machine-based learning posing big implications for politics and elections of the future, we take a look at how data miners are able to influence a voter's behaviour. By Morne Bekker, South African country manager and district...
Talk is cheap – and now it may even buy the whisky
All of us want a better life, not just for ourselves but for our families and the societies we live in. The key to realising this dream is productivity. by Simon Carpenter, chief technology advisor at SAP Africa Productivity is a key driver of global efforts toward...
Technology has made the world a smarter place
Technology is embedded into every facet of modern life and with the arrival of artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT) and the fourth industrial revolution, people sometimes worry about the implications of every device being connected, but we are...
Ethical considerations for AI
There is little doubt that the pace of innovation is accelerating at unprecedented levels. Technology enabled breakthroughs are happening with increased frequency, enhancing the human life span, improving access to basic needs and leaving the general public with...
Five CIO strategies to combat growing IT complexity
The future has never looked more complex. IT leaders are asked not only to deliver IT services, but also to improve business outcomes. By Brendan McAravey, country GM at Citrix South Africa According to the 2018 IPSOS research study commissioned by Citrix, currently...
Critical factors fuelling the data-driven enterprise
Successful digital businesses depend on data to provide the insights necessary to deliver new innovations, products, and services. But those insights are only as good as the underlying data. As the number of business decision-makers who depend on real-time data...
Machine learning optimises core tray imagery
Members of Micromine's Perth office recently participated in The Newcrest Crowd, a crowdsourcing and partnership platform that challenges innovators around the world to solve specific mining problems through online competitions. The "Get 2 the Core" competition...