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...
mapIT solution includes latest census data
mapIT, leading international digital mapping partner throughout Africa, has released the latest Census 2011 data into their location-based business intelligence application, MarketScope. The Census 2011 was a complex and massive exercise undertaken by Stats SA, it...
The four worst BI practices
Business intelligence (BI) software, which emerged in response to the need for accurate and timely information to support informed business decisions, has evolved into a complex market comprising tools and platforms. Many of today’s BI platforms only target large...
Cherry Olive, Ontology ink partnership
Cherry Olive, the unified data management specialists, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Ontology Systems, the semantic search company for structured enterprise application data. Johann Evans, chief technical officer (CTO) of Cherry Olive, said his...
The new horizon for BI and analytics
Successful companies know that achieving a competitive advantage in today’s market is largely a function of deploying better and more advanced analytics to a growing variety of data sets, says Johan Jurd, MD of InfoBuild, representing Information Builders in SA....
The dark side of analytics
It has been suggested by an eMarketer report entitled Worldwide Social Network Users: 2013 Forecast and Comparative Estimates, that approximately one in four people worldwide will use social networks in 2013. Further to this, the number of social network users...