How’s your data health? Pretty bad, if you’re honest. Here’s why and how it needs to be fixed to realise the benefits of the data revolution. All businesses have long recognised that the more data about their customers they are able to gather, the better they can understand and then service them. Customer data has […]
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The Journey of Achieving Conversational Insights Powered by GenAI
In today’s world, being quick and smart with data is key. Imagine if you could talk to your data dashboard like it was an expert, getting clear and smart answers to all your questions. Watch this video recording from the IT Web BI Summit 2024, which features the Keynote address by iOCO’s Principal AI Consultant, […]
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SA Home Loans Dramatically Accelerates Loan Verifications with the Denodo Platform
www.sahomeloans.com INDUSTRY Financial Services PROFILE SA Home Loans is a mortgage finance company and mortgage insurance provider based in South Africa. The company was founded in February, 1999 and is headquartered in uMhlanga, South Africa, near the city of Durban. Its services cover origination and credit approval through to registration and ongoing loan servicing. SA […]
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Building an AI-enabled Africa
“What is our strategy to incorporate AI and Generative AI into our business?” – said everyone’s management team this year. The reality is that organisations across the world are all asking remarkably similar questions. Unfortunately, the answers remain elusive and overwhelming for most. Over the past year, conversations about AI have evolved from theoretical use-cases […]
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Living the AI dream
Since AI moved out of the domain of science fiction into reality, there have been numerous predictions of how the technology is going to change the world. From threats that AI will take over – and ruin – the world, to expectations that AI-driven tools will become mainstream in the next year, every expert, business […]
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Revolutionising retail
For years, the industry has advocated for the benefits offered by Business Intelligence (BI), but many retailers are still struggling to get the most out of their data. As retail continues to evolve in a rapidly digitising world, companies are looking for different ways to use that data to attract and retain customers. Considering that […]
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SA Home Loans’ Data Modernisation Journey with iOCO and Denodo
Working with data across various sources can be difficult at the best of times, especially when the data is in different formats and not presented in a logical way. Watch this video case study and hear how the team at SA Home Loans, together with iOCO and Denodo, collaborated to achieved effective strategies for managing […]
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Revolutionizing Data Management: How iOCO and Denodo’s Data Virtualisation Delivered Time and Cost Savings for Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages
ABOUT THE CLIENT Our client is a provincial soft drink bottling operation in the beverage industry, within the Western and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa. INDUSTRY Beverages, manufacturing, and distribution. BUSINESS CHALLENGE Multiple data silos, lengthy and complex manual reporting processes, the business found it difficult to easily report on data between their various […]
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Assessing data literacy in companies, sales teams
In my first article in this series, I established the critical importance for every sales leader to have effective sales reporting, analytics and eventually advanced analytics. In this article, I will firstly explore building data culture and literacy, and what benefits can be gained by a more data-driven decision-making approach. This relates to the fact that […]
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Farewell DBA, it’s the age of the DDA
Accelerated cloud adoption means many of the tasks traditionally assigned to the database administrator can now be done at the click of a button. But while the traditional DBA role may be on its way out, there’s a growing need for the Digital Database Administrator or DDA, the next generation database curator who is also […]
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