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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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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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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Getting to grips with data
The success or failure of a data project relies on the organisation’s ability to move from raw data to an analytics-ready state. By Kevin van der Merwe, Sales Director at iOCO Qlik. In this second article on data literacy and its importance, I will look at the data lifecycle and then how to integrate the […]
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