How LegalWise wised up to BI
LegalWise is a provider of affordable face to face legal assistance and advice, and also provides access to the services of a lawyer for those LegalWise members who need legal representation. Their reputation is such that one phone call by the company’s legal...
Realtime access to data with iWay7
InfoBuild, representing Information Builders in SA, says the new version of the information asset management platform, iWay7, combines integration, data quality and master data management (MDM) capabilities, providing the most extensive end-to-end data management...
Hammerer Aluminium extends SAP investment
QlikView, a leader in business discovery – user-driven business intelligence (BI) - has announced that the Hammerer Aluminium Industries GmbH (HAI), one of the leading European manufacturers of high-quality aluminum profiles, is using QlikView enterprise-wide to help...
BI to boom as users seek competitive edge
Next generation business intelligence (BI) is rapidly being accepted as the critical tool for business success, says Ayanda Dlamini, business development manager of LGR Telecommunications. Knowledge is power, and never more so than now, when access to the right...
Eight MDM worst practices
Master Data Management (MDM) is a key foundation for trusted data and core business processes, says Johan Jurd, MD of InfoBuild, representing Information Builders in SA. It covers almost every important activity in a company.Using this data strategically can...
Big data and social business software
Big data – the practice of analysing large data sets – is increasingly driving value creation in organisations across all industries. Social business software (SBS) can play an influential part in businesses’ use of big data, due to the ability of SBS platforms to...
Oracle announces BI Mobile App Designer
Oracle has announced Oracle BI Mobile App Designer, a new design tool with which business users can easily create stunning and interactive analytical applications for use on any major mobile device. With this release, Oracle adds major innovations to Oracle business...
Building businesses with big data
Africa’s technology and business leaders have in their hands an unprecedented opportunity to surpass their global counterparts, says Ocea Garriock - Software Group technical leader, IBM SA. If we can harness the vast and growing sources of information known as “big...
Growing SA with advanced analytics
Declining tax revenues, requirements for maintaining high levels of service, unprecedented demands for increased efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability – these are all challenges that government is facing today and the demands placed on it have...
Sanofi implements QlikView
Sanofi South Africa, the local affiliate of global pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, realised time and resources savings after standardising its reporting on QlikView’s business analytics platform. Mixed environment The company had been running multiple tools in 2011,...
Collaboration to elevate data visualisation
Companies are using data visualisation to communicate with their employees, their stakeholders through their annual reports for example, their partners, and their marketing departments use them to communicate with media and customers, they are used in white papers,...
Analysing the fast lane
Everyone knows that Formula 1 is as fast-paced as it gets, with every car on the grid capable of going from 0 to 200kmph in about four seconds and averaging at a speed of 360kmph. But things don’t just need to move quickly on the track for a Formula 1 team to be a...