Wings Travel Management launches GoData
Wings Travel Management, specialists in the oil, gas, marine and service critical corporate sector, is boosting its management information capabilities with the launch of GoData - an intuitive, mobile-enabled business intelligence tool, allowing clients to drill down...
HDS launches Live Insight for Telecom
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS) has launched Live Insight for Telecom, an advanced and predictive analytics solution that provides telecom service providers with real-time insight into network, service and application-level performance. The highly granular and...
Big data should be a priority
Throughout history there have been several eras of quantum leap innovations made by man. From the stone age, bronze and iron ages, all have made their mark in our history and made their own contributions to our future, says Shane Moodley, Entelect team lead – Data Solutions. Today, with the advancement of technology and the emergence of the information highway, we are now living in what is called the “data age”.
Realtime insights and big data
Realtime monitoring and experience tracking have become buzz words in the digital era, says Andre Hugo co-founder at M4JAM. Ostensibly companies that have access to this type of data ultimately have a greater understanding of their current and future consumers’...
Big data can boost business growth
Bytes Universal Systems (BUS), together with its international partner Teradata, has made a call to corporate South Africa to realise the power of big data and put in place strategies to ensure data-driven decision making in order to propel business growth. The call...
Gartner positions Qlik as a leader
Qlik has announced it has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2015 Business Intelligence and Analytics Platform Magic Quadrant report. This designation marks the fifth consecutive year that Qlik has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant based...
Proactive unstructured data management
Rampant growth in unstructured data is not a new phenomenon, however, this type of data has typically proven to be challenging to manage effectively, says Chris Hathaway, director at Soarsoft International. This challenge is only exacerbated by the risks and...
MDM announces new Datameer solution
As more businesses want to take advantage of the insights that the analysis of big data can offer, there is greater demand for the cloud to allow direct access to stored data. Big data platform specialist, Datameer, was the first big data analytics platform purpose...
AIGS hosts Namibia roadshow
AIGS, sub-Saharan distributor of Yellowfin and the Progress suite of products, is hosting a roadshow in Namibia. The roadshow will introduce the features and benefits of award-winning BI product, Yellowfin, to Namibia, as well as provide valuable insights and feedback...
A new approach to processing systems
Data analytics are driving enterprise growth, but sifting through vast amounts of unstructured data calls for an advanced server technology. Business Connexion’s Sakkie Burger and Kamal Ravjee discuss how an innovative systems model can transform data centre...
Data insights can optimise debt collection
It is well documented that South Africa (SA) has a spending culture with low savings levels, a trend which is evident in many segments of the population. Given the low growth rate and tough economic circumstances facing SA as well as the global economy today,...
Data science for business differentiation
First it was price, then it was service, now it’s information. We often read or hear about "big data", but it’s not that often that we hear about ‘data science’ - the process of taking a huge amount of (often unstructured) information, analysing it, and using the...