Does big data invade your privacy?

According to Gartner, by 2015, 4,4-million IT jobs will be created globally to support big data, a clear indication that big data continues to make a large impact on organisations – but have you asked your customers for permission to analyse their data? Big data has...

Big data and the three Vs

“Big data” may no longer be a buzzword – the concept of big data, creating big data stores and analysing against these effectively is common practice, says Ryan Naudé, Entelect manager: Data Solutions. However, “big data”, is still a bit of a “fuzzword”, as I like to...

Cloud computing and PoPI driving BDA

With benefits of flexibility, streamlined processes and reduced costs, cloud computing continues to be a key technology being looked into by businesses in 2014. In fact, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan, overall the cloud computing market in Africa,...

Reconciliation key in agile analytics

Businesses need data in analytics systems and processes in order to make business decisions but two of the biggest challenges they face are timeliness and agility, says Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge Integration Dynamics. It can take too long to get the data...

Qlik launches Qlik Sense

Qlik, a leader in data discovery, has introduced general availability of Qlik Sense, the first device-independent, self-service visualisation and discovery product engineered for enterprise-class governance and performance. Built on a modern architecture and powered...