Big data will take off for fraud analytics

Criminals are rapidly evolving their hacking techniques, and are attacking quickly, making timely security and fraud analytics more critical than ever. Big data analytics give enterprises faster access to their own and relevant external information. Avivah Litan,...

IBM identified as big data, analytics leader

Based on its research on the big data solutions market, Frost & Sullivan has presented IBM with the 2014 Sub-Saharan Africa Frost & Sullivan Award for Competitive Strategy Leadership. While most companies in sub-Saharan Africa already undertake various forms...

Big data the key to Industry 4.0

Enabled by communications and sensor technology, the global manufacturing business is on verge of what some are calling the fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0 – a new era of highly efficient, flexible and customisable mass production. However, Industry...

Dangerous trends in big data storage

The trend towards capturing everything to use in big data analytics raises issues around privacy and could come back to bite companies. ThoughtWorks issued the latest Technology Radar that, among other trends, focuses on the contrast between the exciting new insights...

The death of data warehousing

Data warehousing was most certainly an important stage and milestone for large amounts of data that needed to be stored over the years. But, in many ways, data warehousing is just like a locker where info is stored away – and companies are often unable to drill down...