Form and function key for business analytics
In a time when data has been labelled 'the new oil', businesses are scrambling to implement effective forward-thinking data management strategies that can deliver real-time insights and business value to decision-makers to drive business strategy, increase revenue,...
Big value in small business data
I read an interesting article the other day about how a novel targeted at young, single females and housewives wasn't selling as well as expected, writes Charles Teversham, MD of Sage Intelligence. When the publisher looked deeper into its sales data, it found that...
Big data is transforming financial services and film
With every click, swipe and tap big data is changing the playing field for the South African industries. This, the second of a three part series of articles by Morne Bekker, country manager at NetApp South Africa, looks at how big data is changing the financial...
How big data is transforming industries
Morne Bekker, country manager of NetApp South Africa, examines the effect that big data is having on the automotive industry. Big data has become part of every single conversation of business leaders, IT decision makers and public stakeholders. It is much more than a...
Leverage your business’s best asset
Your company's greatest asset is its data. But to start creating true business value, you need to have the right data strategy in place, says Manfred Gramlich, strategic solutions manager at Hitachi Vantara. You pull up to the curb at the airport and as you exit your...
IDC recognizes SAP for enterprise marketing clouds
SAP has been named a major player in the IDC MarketScape report "Worldwide Artificial Intelligence in Enterprise Marketing Clouds 2017 Vendor Assessment." According to IDC MarketScape, the SAP Hybris Marketing Cloud solution provides customers with an opportunity to...
Unlock opportunities with data-driven services
While data is an indispensable part of the business environment, many organisations are still not harnessing its potential. Kelly Preston, data analytics manager at SilverBridge, believes that data-driven services will empower insurers to do so, thereby addressing...
MicroStrategy maps the Intelligent Enterprise
MicroStrategy has unveiled a map for the Intelligent Enterprise at its annual user conference, MicroStrategy World 2018, taking place in Las Vegas. The map serves as a playbook that offers a collection of technologies and techniques to help organisations leverage...
What’s next for AI?
2017 was a breakout year for artificial intelligence (AI), writes Kriti Sharma, vice-president: AI at Sage. Despite repeated attempts to sensationalise AI over the past year, we have witnessed unprecedented gains in mainstream understanding of AI-driven technologies....
MicroStrategy 10.10 promotes data-driven culture
MicroStrategy has announced the general availability of MicroStrategy 10.10, the newest feature release to the company's MicroStrategy 10 platform. The feature release empowers business teams to confidently embrace an enterprise-wide, data-driven culture by...
HCL, Siemens partner on Industry 4.0
Global IT services company HCL Technologies has entered into a strategic partnership with Siemens on Industry 4.0 solutions, with a strategic collaboration on the Siemens Industry Software Suite. The global partnership with Siemens on Mindsphere, a cloud--based open...
ML drives new investment mindset
Although the average consumer may not be familiar with the concept of machine learning, it's already a big part of our daily lives. Tom Schlebusch, co-founder and CEO of NMRQL Research, a local FinTech player offering South Africa's first machine learning powered unit...