Using predictive analytics to gain advantage
Organisations today are challenged by the need to understand their customers’ current and future requirements in a fast-paced and highly competitive environment, while still delivering goods and services in a profitable manner. Added to this is the need to continue to...
Cortell delivers ETL to the local market
Cortell Corporate Performance Management, a provider of world-class enterprise business intelligence (BI), planning and consolidation software and services, has announced a ground-breaking ETL extraction solution for users of the Universe and Unidata (U2) legacy...
Teradata conference focuses on data
The annual Teradata User Group conference is confirmed for 6 February 2014 at the Johannesburg Country Club in Woodmead, Johannesburg. The conference is themed Unleashing the Power of Data and will offer delegates a look at the latest international developments in how...
Teradata broadens marketing offerings
Teradata, the leading analytic data platforms, applications and services company, has announced it has broadened its offerings for delivering data-driven marketing globally via the cloud through its category-leading Integrated Marketing Management (IMM) suite. The...
Big brother and big data
“Big data” has become the latest panacea for creating customer loyalty. “Big data” usually goes with other mysterious terms like “analysing telephony metadata”, “separating the signal from the noise”, and “we know the precise ARPU for our clients”, says Aki...
Manging real estate requires quality data
When it comes to corporate real estate (CRES) and property management, there is one all-important question that the property manager needs to answer – how much does it cost to run each building? This seemingly simple question is often difficult to answer, for a number...
Big data projects hinge on data management
Forrester Research first coined the phrase "big data process" in August 2011 to describe the shift from a fragmented, silo approach to business process management (BPM) to a more holistic approach that stitches all the pieces of a process together, across an...
Predictive analytics delivers marketing edge
Effective use of data, and predictive analytics, can give businesses a strong competitive advantage, SAS has told the business community in Kenya. Speaking at a SAS Integrated Marketing Management forum hosted recently in Nairobi, SAS experts highlighted numerous ways...
Metalogix acquires Idera SharePoint products
Soarsoft Africa, a specialist of archive, migration, messaging and collaboration solutions and distributor of Metalogix solutions in southern Africa, has announced Metalogix’s acquisition of Idera’s highly successful and profitable SharePoint business, including the...
IBM, Datawatch turn ECM into data insights
Datawatch and IBM have announced the industry's first integrated content management and analytics solution that lets IBM Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) users gain insight from big data trapped within their CMOD systems. The first of its kind, this-self-service...
Oracle announces Utilities Data Model
Oracle has announced Oracle Utilities Data Model, a pre-built standards-based data warehouse schema and set of business intelligence dashboards designed to help utilities analyze growing smart grid and other enterprise data and quickly drive new business intelligence...
BI and effective real estate management
When it comes to corporate real estate (CRES) and property management, there is one all-important question that the property manager needs to answer – how much does it cost to run each building? This seemingly simple question is often difficult to answer, for a number...