One of the most important trends to emerge in recent years is that it is increasingly difficult to identify individual risks in isolation. Business, society and culture are all complex and that gives rise to an interconnected risk landscape which requires an...
Many business owners and CEOs have introduced Big Data into their operations, yet few can leverage it for a competitive advantage. According to the PwC 22nd annual survey launched at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, CEOs are still failing to...
South African based Artificial Intelligence Software & Solutions provider Cortex Logic secures growth investment to expand its reach to new clients in Europe & USA. Cortex Logic is an African Artificial Intelligence (AI) software and solutions company...
January 9, 2019 •
Features •
Danielle Kruger •
Comments Off on Data governance is not just about compliance; it’s good business
An effective data governance strategy is essential for business’ due to the increasing importance of data and imposition of various data regulations. This strategy ensures that the right policies, processes, technology and people are in place to effectively...
January 8, 2019 •
Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
Comments Off on Top 5 IT trends that will redefine businesses in 2019
We are living in an era of unparalleled innovation. As new and emerging technologies continue to redefine IT and business, the pace of change and technological advancement is accelerating. Today, we are looking at a smarter, intelligent future driven by...
January 4, 2019 •
Features •
Danielle Kruger •
Comments Off on How a team of data scientists can make a difference to your bottom line
In today’s digital world of cloud, mobility, analytics and data, the focus for both business and consumers is to find answers to their problems. Just building a solution or buying devices and applications, without coming up with an answer, in the...
December 18, 2018 •
Enterprise IT •
Danielle Kruger •
Comments Off on A Data Centre on Wheels – Where Is It Taking Us?
Driverless vehicles are on the road now. It’s a big news story. Getting the cars to behave with their human-driven peers has taken a tremendous amount of work. Getting them to avoid collisions is still a work in progress. When you dig into what’s making...
The Fourth industrial revolution has the potential to disrupt every industry in every country through large-scale automation, adoption of emergent technologies, big data and artificial intelligence. According to Chief Director of Future Production...
The world is in the grips of digital transformation, as organisations of all shapes and sizes adopt or explore digital technologies and strategies in an effort to remain relevant and competitive in increasingly crowded market places. According to IDG’s 2018...
Quora.com, a question and answer website, is the latest on a long list of companies to suffer a massive data breach. The network breach affected the personal data of about 100 million users. Information that was compromised included things like names, email...
South Korea’s telecommunications company, KT, has signed an agreement on the use of Big Data in preventing infectious diseases with the Ghana Health Service. Attendees at the signing ceremony in Accra, Ghana, included Yoon Jong-Jin, KT’s senior...
November 15, 2018 •
Enterprise IT •
Danielle Kruger •
Comments Off on UN forum to bring ‘big space data’ benefits to disaster response in Africa
Big data are extremely large datasets, which, upon analysis can reveal complex patterns in real-world situations such as the movement of people or humanitarian needs in the aftermath of a disaster. Synergies between such big data and space-based information,...
November 13, 2018 •
Southern Africa •
Danielle Kruger •
Comments Off on Workonline, Equinix open networks between Africa and Asia-Pacific
Workonline Communications, one of Africa’s top three transit networks, has established a Point of Presence (POP) in the Equinix Singapore data centre, effectively establishing a gateway between networks in Africa and Asia-Pacific. Workonline Communications...
November 12, 2018 •
Features •
Fundi •
Comments Off on Veeam unpacks how modern businesses can manage their data more intelligently
The last ten years have seen an evolution in how organisations of all sizes implement and manage their IT infrastructures. The arrival of cloud computing models like software as a service (SaaS) now enable users to connect to and use cloud-based apps directly...
October 28, 2018 •
Enterprise IT •
Fundi •
Comments Off on Increase sales and productivity with data cleaning
Up to 32% of any company’s data is inaccurate, according to recent research, leading to revenue losses of up to 23%. This is because data quality has a direct impact on the conversion rate from lead to customer, says Louise Robinson, MD of specialist lead...
October 17, 2018 •
Features •
NetAdmin •
Comments Off on Four steps businesses can use to monetise their data
Many South African organisations are sitting on hundreds of millions of rands in potential income – but they’re battling to uncover the blueprint that will help them tap into this revenue. And yes, this particular blueprint is built on data. In fact,...
