Plan for a successful data migration
Data integration and migration challenges arise every time an organisation moves to a new data system, or wishes to combine multiple data systems, either internally or as a result of a merger, says Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management. This is a significant...
Vicitude, Yellowfin SA ink BI partnership
Cape Town-based software specialist, Vicitude Business Solutions, has signed a reseller agreement with Yellowfin South Africa, the official distributor for Yellowfin in sub-Saharan Africa. The agreement will see Vicitude offering Yellowfin’s easy-to-use business...
QlikView Academic Programme grows
QlikView, a leader in Business Discovery – user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), has announced that the QlikView Academic Programme has awarded nearly 100 grants in 35 countries since launching one year ago. Part of QlikTech’s global corporate social responsibility...
Big data, personalised service
As anyone who has shopped at one of the major global online retailers knows, buying patterns are carefully monitored by the site. What users buy, what products they browse - sometimes even how they navigate through a single page - all is recorded and fed into an...
Research shows BI is rarely implemented
For more than 20 years, adoption has been the key hurdle in the business intelligence (BI) industry. Average BI usage is only about 10% to 20%, says Johan Jurd, MD of InfoBuild, representing Information Builders in SA. Every business is at some stage involved in some...
Oracle announces new Exalytics system
Oracle has announced a new release of Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine X3-4. The new system features significant software enhancements and hardware updates, dramatically expanding the capabilities of the industry’s first high-speed engineered system for business...
Chief data officer: the next C-level exec
In most organisations, C-level executives have a specific function. The CFO looks after finance, the CEO execution and strategy, and the CMO marketing. The exception is the chief information officer (CIO) who can fulfil anything from infrastructure planning and...
The future of BI is simplicity
The exponentially increasing volumes of digital data have given rise to new opportunities for businesses of all sizes. Where once BI platforms were the sole preserve of large organisations that had large IT budgets and large IT departments, today’s smaller companies...
BCX addresses data challenges with SAP
Business Connexion is a black empowered information and communications technology (ICT) company who prides itself on innovative business solutions. Their solutions are designed to meet clients’ strategic and operational needs, which are fully developed and maintained....
A sweet BI solution for Quality Sugars
Seeking a quick and cost effective approach to its need for integrated sales analytics applications, Quality Sugars, the largest sugar producer in SouthAfrica, approached BusinessIntelligent to address this need. BusinessIntelligent, a leading provider of business...
ESN boosts knowledge management
Companies typically consist of several different departments. While the employees are all working to achieve the same goal – usually to sell more products or services to consumers, thereby generating more revenue for their company – communication systems are...
Edge Evolve, MDM sign partnership agreement
Master Data Management (MDM), a specialist solutions provider for data governance, data quality, data integration and master data management, has signed a partnership agreement with The Edge Evolve Group (Edge Evolve), an organisation with businesses that offer data...