AI: the good, the bad and the unknown
I hit a bird with my car the other day. I felt terrible. I don't know why I felt that way. Some people might not be at all affected by the death of a bird. Why is that? What makes us respond the way we do in certain situations? What makes us think and act the way we...
Artificial intelligence and its place in the enterprise
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology promises to solve problems organisations could not before because it delivers benefits that no humans could legitimately perform. AI offers the means to maintain optimum efficiency and proficiency to meet customer demands. CIOs,...
Welcome to the era of smart data discovery
With effective data analysis being an essential part of the success of any insurer, companies are looking at increasingly innovative ways to extract meaningful insight. Kelly Preston, data analytics manager at SilverBridge, says smart data discovery is one such...
MicroStrategy SA is analytics mobility hub
MicroStrategy's South African office has expanded to offer enterprise analytics and mobility expert services. MicroStrategy is now delivering Jump Start, a free five-day education program, and consulting services in more than 30 cities around the world. "By turning...
EOH Cloudera offers Apache Hadoop training
With a wave of big data hitting South Africa, companies are fast realising the enormous benefits of using big data to address ever growing business challenges. Built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source technologies, Cloudera Enterprise can help solve the...
Defeat data chaos in the connected age
Currently, organisations have access to more data than ever before. However, this data cannot be used to its full advantage if it cannot be identified, located, and established if it can be trusted, writes Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management. An effective data...
Advanced intuitive analytics in Qlik Sense
Qlik has previewed Qlik Sense June 2017, the newest release of its next-generation application for self-service business intelligence (BI) and visual analytics. Built on a fully integrated, cloud-ready platform, and powered by the patented QIX Associative Indexing...
Pros and cons of BI in the cloud
All cloud is not the answer for all BI: business critical processes should stay in-house, writes Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID). Recent international research shows steady growth in the number of organisations implementing cloud-based...
M2M and IoT complicate data management
When it comes to big data, South Africa is keeping up with the rest of the world, writes Johan Scheepers, Commvault systems engineering director for MESAT. However, one of the largest concerns for local CIOs is the management of this data. Rising technologies, such as...
Data quality, governance assist with counterparty exposure
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...
AR turns the world into an interactive billboard
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...
Don’t buy stolen data
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...