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...
UWC has Africa’s first data analytics postgrad diploma
Globally, businesses are wrestling with challenges and opportunities that call for the application of analytics - but African businesses identify the lack of talent as one of the primary factors for not being able to pursue this avenue. That's why the University of...
Adapt IT partners with Yellowfin on BI
Specialist ICT services provider Adapt IT has partnered with Yellowfin in order to enhance its offering with a world-class BI solution. The company, which has been providing complete and integrated business intelligence (BI) solutions to its clients for over 14 years,...
Business intelligence: waste of time or way of the future?
Imagine a company where the CEO walks into his office at 8am and spends just 30 minutes on his strategic dashboard. Imagine that in these mere 30 minutes he is able to know exactly what sales are in the pipeline; what problems there are in the factory; where HR is in...
AI is in your hands
Artificial intelligence is usually associated with futuristic sci-fi movies and the rise of the machines against humanity. What many people don't realise is that it's commonplace today, and something you've probably not noticed has become a critical part of your life....
Decision Inc partners with Alteryx
For any organisation functioning in the modern world, data has become the ultimate weapon of mass engagement. It can transform production, product design, customer relationships and that very clichéd, yet consistently essential, bottom line. Analysing and interpreting...
Software AG debuts Apama Community Edition
Software AG has announced the availability of Apama Community Edition, a free version of the Apama Streaming Analytics platform, that enables developers to download the Apama software, build streaming analytics applications and put those applications into production....