Data vs. Corruption
Africa has a catalogue of challenges, and corruption is chief among them. But why is the scourge of corruption rife? At the recent World Economic Forum held in Durban, South Africa, African leadership advocate Lindiwe Mazibuko said that corruption on the continent was due to ‘the kind of people we are putting in positions of leadership’. “We need to redefine leadership, and how we think about it, if we’re going to reach these high-minded goal...

Less than Actual
Written by Fortune Neluswi “Less than actual” – at the sound of that term, accounting and auditing experts would fire off red flags after a financial run on the books of any organization. I would like to swift you away from the world of debit and credit sides, to the formidable world of data. Taking into account the huge amounts of data being collected globally by corporations like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, it may certainly seem that we are...

Analytics: Exciting & Uncormfortable
Written by André Voges It’s only new until it is absorbed and accepted into existing bodies of knowledge. Analytics is not just about the shiny new tool or the best (according to whom and for what?) algorithm, it is an art that harmoniously blends components of subject matter expertise, mathematical knowledge, technical know-how with the ability to communicate via verbal, written and visual methods. It is an iterative process of discovery and ...

My MDM project failed...why?
Written by Alec Lloyd I have been involved in two big MDM implementations in the past 5 years. First one semi successful, second one extremely successful. I tried to figure out what made the second project so successful, and realised that there were some things we just got right second time around. If we ask the following questions, it can put you on the right track to a successful solution. This is by no means a definitive list, and it is ope...

Vena Solutions, the leader in CPM
Vena Solutions Named Leader in Corporate Performance Management Excel integration and enterprise functionality drive Vena’s continued CPM leadership: 2016 Nucleus Value Matrix Albany, NY (March 29, 2016) - Vena Solutions, the fastest growing provider of cloud-based corporate performance management (CPM) software, is proud to announce that Nucleus Research has named it a market leader in its annual CPM Value Matrix report. High marks in usabili...

POPI - The good, the bad and the still to be decided...
Written by: Nadine Arnold I was quite shocked to read recently that between 70-80% of South African adults have been victims of cyber crime in their lifetime. While we are losing in excess of R2.2 billion to internet fraud and phishing attacks annually, these numbers are increasing rapidly with very few prosecutions taking place in South African cyber crime cases.  At the heart of it, cyber criminals require access to personal information.  Th...

The Tableau Experience
Join us for The Tableau Experience in  Johannesburg and transform the way you think about data. Tableau is all about making data analytics fast, easy, beautiful, and most importantly – useful. Helping people gain insight into their data to solve unexpected problems is what drives us. During this event we’ll answer the question “What is Tableau?” and show you why we’re different from other business intelligence solutions. Stick around for happy hour and you’ll have a chance to get up close and demo Tableau for yourself. Who shou...