How intelligent will AI get?
Imagine a Personal Assistant Bot, a machine or application that you could ask to organise a meeting or arrange bookings just as you would a live, human assistant. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent and approaches advance, such a scenario may be...
AWS debuts P2 instances for Amazon EC2
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the availability of P2 instances, a new GPU instance type for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) designed for compute-intensive applications that require massive parallel floating point performance, including artificial...
N3 Toll Concession improves incident tracking
Infotech Business Solutions (IBS) has implemented its Intelligen tracking, fleet management, and dispatching platform as well as mobile applications at the N3 Toll Concession (N3TC) to assist in accurately managing and capturing incident information on the N3 Toll...
Where does SA stand on machine learning?
While the South African market has become more aware of machine learning - as well as its capabilities and the value it can add to a business - machine learning uptake and local industry development lags behind several developed markets (not by months, but years)....
Pyramid Analytics unlocks SAP analytics
Enterprise business analytics platform Pyramid Analytics has announced new functionality in BI Office that delivers streamlined and governed access to all data sources in the SAP system, including SAP HANA and SAP BW. Using an SAP-certified connector, customers can...
Adcorp drives innovation with Decision Inc
Bolstered by a R1-million prize, C-suite backing, and a portal developed by Decision Inc, Adcorp's Dragons' Den initiative has harnessed the innovative ideas of its South African employees to generate an expected profit of R300-million over the next five years....
Data quality helps to optimise cash flow
Effective cash flow is essential for business survival, as it promotes liquidity and enables an organisation to meet its short-term debt or credit demands. Although it is often perceived to be a finance issue, the reality is that cash flow optimisation is an...
Gemalto expands big data security offerings
Gemalto has announced a major expansion of its SafeNet data protection portfolio that makes it easier for enterprises to protect big data deployments in the cloud, data centre, and virtualised environments. Gemalto's SafeNet data encryption and tokenisation solutions...
Big data requires NoSQL
The history of information technology in business has been accompanied by the success and the continued growth of relational databases. Put simply, relational databases made it easy for businesses to store and retrieve information in a tabular structure, writes Barry...
How public sector benefit from big data
Now that the dust around the local elections has settled, the spotlight will be on the various municipalities to prove that they are worthy of the public's votes, writes Gary de Menezes, NetApp country manager for southern Africa. Enhanced service delivery will no...
Data quality critical for accurate billing
The ability to collect payments is the cornerstone of any successful business, writes Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management. However, studies indicate that organisations may lose as much as six percent of their potential revenue because of discrepancies between...
Data Visualisation: a new way of making it work
Your data, your company's most valuable asset. Applications use data to run but more importantly, it is the data they generate that gets used by businesses to do the analyses required to understand their customers, their competitors and their way forward. Experts in...