Cashbuild improves visibility with QlikView
Making sense of change In the midst of a massive conversion to a new retail POS system and ERP suite in 2012, leading building materials retailer Cashbuild turned to QlikView to provide management information visibility. Andre van Onselen, operations director, says...
Big data comes to BI: can it cope?
Because of the way they are deployed, less than 10% of employees regularly use business intelligence (BI) tools. Forrester Research puts the fraction at between 5% and 9%. And of that user base, anecdotes abound of daily reports taking several days just to look...
Big data brings challenges, opportunities
“The business case for big data is virtually unlimited, presenting new challenges and opportunities for ICT players bold enough to take on the challenge of supporting big data use,” says Grant Vine, technical director at Cybervine. Big data, much like cloud computing,...
It’s about big answers, not big data
Analytics is the top technology priority for CIOs and CFOs, according to Gartner; Nucleus Research recently released a report showing that organisations get a 10 to one return on analytics investment; IDC has increased growth forecasts for the analytics market....
Big data, analytics key to business strategy
Big data and analytics are all the rage. But while these are important concepts for businesses of all sizes, they have no value if they are merely another addition to IT’s “to-do” list. Gerald Naidoo, CEO of specialist systems integrator Logikal Consulting, says that...
Yellowfin announces version 6.3
Global business intelligence (BI) and analytics vendor, Yellowfin, has officially released the latest version of its BI software, Yellowfin 6.3, following a series of launch Webinars held across Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 May 2013. Analysts and customers have...
Big data and presidential campaigns
After President Obama was re-elected in 2012, it emerged that his campaign had successfully used big data analytics in ways no other political campaign had done before. The team of over 100 people started with the core data of the voters' roll, modelled how they could...
Trillium named a data quality leader
Master Data Management is the South African partner for Trillium Software, a leading provider of total data quality solutions, which has once again been named a data quality leader by independent analyst firm The Information Difference. Trillium Software was further...
Prioritising big data key to future success
Within big data lies huge value, which organisations ignore at their peril, says Ayanda Dlamini, business development manager at LGR Telecommunications. Big data is raising a lot of questions within business, but it’s a phenomenon nobody can afford to ignore. Within...
QlikView honoured with awards
QlikTech, a leader in business discovery - user-driven business intelligence (BI) - has announced the continued success of its QlikView Business Discovery platform with several award wins for customers and for the company itself. The QlikView Business Discovery...
Co-innovation essential in modern world
In today's globalised economy, organisations that want to remain competitive would do well to adopt policies of co-innovation across multiple boundaries, incorporating consumers, suppliers, and partners with like-minded goals into the process. This was key to a...
EnterpriseWorx partners with Informatica
South African Business Intelligence (BI), data management and software engineering specialists EnterpriseWorx have become a member of the Informatica INFORM partner program to deliver data management solutions in South Africa. EnterpriseWorx has joined INFORM,...