Agility is critical for South African manufacturers looking to modernise their environments. They need to embrace the concept of Industry 4.0 to leverage cloud-based technology and cyber-physical systems to operate the smart factory required in today's digital world....

Way back, there was a joint course that combined students from the Computer Science (CS) department, which, at the time, was very focused on algorithms and programming skills, with students from the Business Information Systems (BIS) department - a more commercially...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently forecast that growth of the global economy will slow to 3,2% this year, down from 6,1% in 2021, and to an even lower 2,9% in 2023. This can be attributed to lasting effects of the pandemic, fallouts from the...

It has become an accepted fact that data is the single most important resource organisations have, with the potential to transform companies, unleash organic growth, and even improve the human condition. And, as consumers begin to voice their expectations for...

Predictive modelling is a critical component for any business looking to optimise their operations. As the name suggests, it entails forecasting outcomes for a business based on different permutations. "Having access to highly predictive models for driving...

There is a clear incentive to accelerate AI transformation, and rightly so. Statistics show that the proportion of a company's revenue, "AI-influenced", more than doubled between 2018 and 2021 and is expected to triple by 2024. By Hina Patel, applied intelligence lead...

In times of volatility, investors tend to make irrational decisions. A recent example is the Covid crash of March 2020, when many investors - fearing a much deeper correction - sold into a falling market, only to miss out on one of the fastest rebounds in history....

There is no doubt that the 'Data Revolution', which has accelerated exponentially over the last decade, has caused a fundamental shift in the way we do business across all aspects of the industry. By Jason Dunk, head of data science at Ambledown Financial Services...

The amount of data created globally is expected to grow to more than 180 zettabytes by 2025. For context, 1ZB is equal to a trilliant gigabyte. It should hardly be a surprise that organisations are under immense pressure to manage this ever-swelling sea of data to...

One of the biggest challenges that Business Intelligence (BI) analysts face is data debt - the accumulated cost of shortcuts taken with data quality and consistency over the years, which have created long-term problems. Among these issues are the time and sheer effort...