Resistance to Innovation is Futile
It stands to reason if we don’t innovate we’ll lose position because our competitors will take over our market share, writes Michael Stanleigh and Ian Huntly, CEO of Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings, official representatives of SoftExpert in South Africa . In...
GIT offers training on DVTel analytics
Graphic Image Technologies (GIT), specialist in remote CCTV and control room technologies, video compression and transmission, is now offering training to integrators and value-added resellers on DVTel ioimage cameras and encoders with Edge-based analytics. This full...
Hotel group rolls out Quintica solution
When a leading hotel and entertainment group identified the need to better understand how its customers were engaging with its Web site, it turned to Quintica to assist with the deployment of its BMC End User Experience Management (EUEM) solution. Key to the company’s...
Does big data invade your privacy?
According to Gartner, by 2015, 4,4-million IT jobs will be created globally to support big data, a clear indication that big data continues to make a large impact on organisations – but have you asked your customers for permission to analyse their data? Big data has...
Big data and the three Vs
“Big data” may no longer be a buzzword – the concept of big data, creating big data stores and analysing against these effectively is common practice, says Ryan Naudé, Entelect manager: Data Solutions. However, “big data”, is still a bit of a “fuzzword”, as I like to...
Cloud computing and PoPI driving BDA
With benefits of flexibility, streamlined processes and reduced costs, cloud computing continues to be a key technology being looked into by businesses in 2014. In fact, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan, overall the cloud computing market in Africa,...
Reconciliation key in agile analytics
Businesses need data in analytics systems and processes in order to make business decisions but two of the biggest challenges they face are timeliness and agility, says Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge Integration Dynamics. It can take too long to get the data...
ITTIA connects Android to big data
ITTIA, a global supplier of embedded relational database software, has announced the availability of bidirectional synchronisation for Android apps to bridge the gap of collecting big data on-the-go. Due to an unprecedented influx of sensitive data that is managed and...
Oracle upgrades Exalytics In-Memory machine
The ability to find answers to strategic business questions quickly offers a competitive advantage to organisations of any size in any industry. The latest refresh of Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, an engineered system for business analytics, includes Intel Xeon...
Qlik launches Qlik Sense
Qlik, a leader in data discovery, has introduced general availability of Qlik Sense, the first device-independent, self-service visualisation and discovery product engineered for enterprise-class governance and performance. Built on a modern architecture and powered...
Robor grows insight with Decision Inc.
Local QlikView partner Decision Inc. has enabled steel, tube and pipe manufacturer and solutions provider, Robor, to consolidate its reporting and improve its analytical capabilities to gain insight into key business areas across its business units. "The main issue we...
Financial firms need big data strategies
The majority of capital markets firms do not have big data strategies in place even though some are investing in big data for specific functional areas, says Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge Integration Dynamics. Those investments to date have typically focused on...