Turning data into revenue

Data monetisation – the art of turning information into actions that generate business revenue – is generating a lot of interest among enterprises around the world. The possibility that information can be collated and analysed, to deliver the silver bullets that...

Data is the key to a customer-first strategy

South African companies that are serious about making a shift towards customer-focused marketing need to put in place systems and processes that will enable them to gather and make sense of unprecedented amounts of customer data being generated, in an integrated...

Data boom, Mobile Money drive MTN revenues

MTN’s data revenues have increased 43,3% for the first quarter of 2014. The total number of subscribers grew 1,1% from December 2013, while Mobile Money subscribers continued to grow, reaching 16,6-million. MTN Group president and CEO Sifiso Dabengwa comments: “MTN...

E-mails can expose confidential data

Surveys show that companies are becoming increasingly concerned about data loss and exposure of confidential information through e-mail. And, rightly so. Research indicates that at least 22% of companies have experienced an accidental or malicious leak of sensitive or...

APIs make realtime election data available

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is creating functionality in the form of application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide election data in realtime to stakeholders including politicians, media institutions and other interested parties. These APIs are...