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Legal requirements push ILM

New laws in South Africa will compel companies to manage their data properly. But there’s almost no guidance on how to proceed.

Precision farming

How technology informs farm management decisions, and provides market linkages to African small-scale farmers.

Precision

Hilton Tarrant

From the inside out

IBM’s information on demand strategy is now about transforming businesses from the inside.

IBM

Paul Furber

INFORMATION ACCESS AND AVAILABILITY KEY TO EFFECTIVE E-GOVERNMENT

Nitesh Vallabh Director: PBT With the will of government focused on improved service delivery and better management of its resources, the concept of improved information access and sharing is absolutely essential.

Information

Nitesh Vallabh

PUSHING BI PERFORMANCE TO THE LIMIT

As one of the world’s largest credit bureaus dealing with hundreds of millions of credit records each month, TransUnion has a greater demand for high-performance analytics than most organisations.

Pushing

Transunion

MAXIMIZING MANAGEMENT INFORMATION

When Old Mutual’s Group Direct Sales (GDS) division ran into challenges surrounding the delivery of timeous and reliable management information, it partnered with the PBT Group to design and implement an end-to-end, multi-sourced data warehouse and Business Intelligence (BI) reporting solution based on the SAS 9 BI platform architecture and software.

Maximizing

Pbt

GETTING TO GRIPS WITH COLLABORATION AND CONTROL

With content management a pressing issue across the business landscape, organisations are grappling with the challenge of creating collaborative working environments that foster information sharing, yet attain greater control of the management of content for governance and compliance purposes.

Getting

Mint

PUTTING THE INTELLIGENCE BACK INTO BUSINESS

Nitesh Valabh Director: PBT Group The demands on businesses today are creating an ever-increasing need to obtain the right information from the right place at the right time.

Putting

Nitesh Valabh

CONVERGENCE IN CONTEXT

Convergence is often perceived as a complex matter, yet there are only two technologies that make convergence possible: the digitisation of information, and the advent of the transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP).

Convergence

Janet Paterson

WHEN STUDENTS ARE VIEWED AS CUSTOMERS

The advanced student interaction capability of the new contact centre platform from Dimension Data has greatly boosted UNISA, the southern hemisphere’s largest university.

When

Dimension Data

WHY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IS VITAL TO HIGH PERFORMANCE IN FINANCIAL SERVICES

Accenture senior executive: Financial Services, Wendy Pienaar, explains the importance of alleviating errors and omissions in information management – errors that can create and even increases risk at every phase of the mortgage origination, securitisation and investment process.

Why

Accenture Sa

WORKING TOWARDS CREATING AN INCLUSIVE INFORMATION SOCIETY

Sentech, as a strategic national asset of the South African government, continues to make a significant contribution in the drive towards creating an inclusive information society where all South Africans, especially those in the rural areas, have access to information.

Working

Sentech

INFORMATION AT A RATE OF KNOTS

The masses of time-sensitive, mission-critical data flowing between the SA Weather Service’s (SAWS) head office and its 27 regional sites require significant bandwidth, business continuity assurance and reliability – at a price that makes sense.

Information

Telkom Business