Xero predicts AI will transform accounting
Technological innovation is transforming the accounting profession, with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning set to have a big impact over the next few years. Cloud-based accounting software Xero was one of the first platforms to see the potential that...
Start-ups: Don’t drown in data
There's no business too small to benefit from data analytics, writes Ravi Bhat, Microsoft South Africa's cloud and enterprise business group lead Let's set a quick scenario. Kevin is an entrepreneur who owns a kiosk selling locally brewed beers. Kevin keeps a log book...
Wipro, ASG partner on intelligence, compliance
Wipro and ASG Technologies have announced an expanded partnership that integrates the offerings of Wipro's Data Management Centre of Excellence (CoE) with ASG's Enterprise Data Intelligence solution to improve compliance for the global financial services companies. A...
Big data and cross-industry data sharing
Data is prolific; it's ubiquitous and pertains to virtually every aspect of life and its ability to offer additional value to customers - and, in turn, the industry's ability to leverage it - is extraordinary. The trouble is effectively collating raw data across...
Effective data analytics makes you indispensable
Data analytics is becoming more important than ever to assist companies in understanding and growing their businesses. Analytics does this by providing insight into the environments they operate in, what their customers are thinking and experiencing, as well as the...
Intelligence essential to defeating global cyber scourge
The world is engaged in an invisible war, with honest businesses at one end and fiercely determined cybercriminals at the other, writes Nithen Naidoo, CIO of Snode. Cybersecurity is no longer just a pressing concern for the IT industry, it is a very real issue that...
Finance departments should lead data and insights
The role of finance has changed. The job is no longer to just produce financial information - these processes are being or should be automated by their ERP systems. What CEO's now demand are heads of finance that can actually provide analysis and insights - being a...
Decision Inc delivers data visualisation tool to Nimble Group
Decision Inc, a management and technology consulting organisation, has implemented a dynamic data aggregation solution for Nimble, transforming its reporting, formatting and data visualisation capabilities. The implementation utilises the simple and seamless tools...
Users rank Qlik Sense tops
Qlik's platform-based approach to business intelligence (BI) and analytics, Qlik Sense, has ranked first in customer and product satisfaction, customer experience, project success, business value, query performance, and performance among large international BI vendors...
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...