Financial institutions have become so complex and the products they sell have developed at such an accelerated pace that their internal risk infrastructure has been unable to keep up. In such tumultuous economic conditions, counter party risk management (where the...

Johan Walters, head of C2C Labs, talks about the marketing opportunities for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Augmented reality campaigns are taking off internationally with progressive brands using the technology to turn every available surface into a...

Customer databases are one of a company's most important assets, and nowhere is this more true than in organisations whose core business is lead generation and database sales. Databases are popular, as emails are inexpensive, easy to distribute, and are a highly...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is commonly associated with science fiction films and some distant future scenario where the world is run by psychotic robots. However scary it may seem, we are already interacting with self-teaching technology in our everyday lives....

Over the years, business intelligence (BI) has helped tens of thousands of enterprises gain a better understanding of the gaps and opportunities in their markets and organisational make-up. Nevertheless, it has been slow to permeate throughout organisations, writes...

Most organisations are coming under growing pressure to improve efficiencies, reduce costs, deliver more value to customers and other stakeholders, and respond quickly to a fast-changing business environment, writes Thabo Ndlela, non-executive director of IFS South...

Explosion of data, computing power and the rise of the information activists, are the top three distinctive and challenging trends in the business intelligence (BI) space in 2017, says Adam Barrie-Smith Cape Town branch manager and expert services llead at South...

In an increasingly competitive market, insurers must use business intelligence (BI) to differentiate themselves in the digital age. But how best can the effectiveness of such a solution be measured? Kelly Preston, data analytics manager at SilverBridge, discusses how...

Big data has been relatively slow to take off in South Africa. Despite the hype, many organisations are only now beginning to experiment with technologies such as Hadoop. Big data is often still seen as the domain of the IT department, or the chief data officer, and...

Gustav Piater, sales and marketing director of AIGS, points out that, as organisations strive to become more data-driven, the challenge is to give more organisational role players access to the data they need at the point of decision-making. Unfortunately, this is...

Inefficiencies in the insurance industry are costing consumers millions each year, while the industry continues to grow. The needs of consumers don't always seem to be a top priority, which is a deep concern during the current global economic climate. Bradley Smith,...