Relevant innovation key at executive level
In a world where products and services have become increasingly commoditised, organisations are faced with the challenge of finding a competitive edge to gain and maintain market share, says Paul Fick, CTO, The Jasco Group. They must find a way of differentiating...
E-mail archiving and data management
With the exponential growth in data currently being experienced, and every indication that this information explosion will only accelerate into the future, organisations are faced with a number of data management challenges, says Bryan Balfe, Enterprise account...
The power of data
Thanks to the increasing number of connected devices, the volume of data has exploded. In fact, expectations are that the digital world will contain 44-trillion gigabytes of data by 2020. Armandè Kruger, regional sales director at PBT Group, examines this changing...
Ricoh rolls out Oracle solution
Ricoh is using Oracle’s SPARC T5 servers with Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances and Oracle Database to analyse data from RICOH @Remote, its realtime support service for customers in more than 100 countries and regions. The service monitors and collects thousands of data...
Painting a picture with data
Visual data analytics is a lot like painting a picture. The image might not look like much in the beginning as you play around with different brush strokes, colours and materials. But after time, and with a little experimentation, a picture starts to take shape and...
Keep the lights on in your smart building
Intelligent, connected technology is a growing trend, and property owners and managers, particularly in the retail space, are either constructing smart buildings from the ground up or retrofitting existing buildings with smart solutions, says Marco Da Silva, MD of...
Transforming data from expense to asset
CIOs today are increasingly being asked to extract greater value from the data residing within the organisation – transforming information into a valuable asset that the organisation can use as the springboard to future success. This issue was explored in depth by...
MDM invites participation in survey
Data management is a vast discipline, covering everything from established roles such as database administration, to emerging platforms such as data governance and big data analytics. For large organisations, data management bills can run in to the hundreds of...
MDM participates in data quality summit
Master Data Management's MD, Gary Allemann, is the only African to present at the 2015 Data Quality Pro Virtual Summit. Allemann joins a prestigious multinational group of data management specialists on the presenter panel. “Our goal with this event is to provide our...
Dark data illuminated
Dark data is a relatively new term to the industry, defined by Gartner “as the information assets organisations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes (for example, analytics, business relationships...
Software AG offers predictive analytics
Software AG announced the addition to pre-built high-performance, Big Data Predictive Analytics solutions to its Digital Business Platform that make it easier and faster for enterprises across industries like retail, manufacturing, financial services,...
Predictive data set from TransUnion
In tough times, credit lenders face increased risk, negatively impacting profitability. To meet the market’s need for improved risk management, TransUnion has bolstered its Bureau Credit Characteristics (BCC) suite with the introduction of BCC Format 700 variables. BCC Format 700 variables is the next-generation of consumer credit profiling data tools that is highly granular, offering more than 3 400 variables across 19 refined industries to increase risk predictability.