Vital role analytics can play in Cape Town as Day Zero approaches

The high rate of economic fraud in SA can be reduced by businesses adopting a holistic, collaborative and technology-based approach.

Open source and proprietary artificial intelligence implementations offer benefits and disadvantages, says SAS.

The significant impact analytics has had on a wide variety of market sectors in recent times suggests this is fast becoming one of the key requirements in business planning, regardless of industry.

The adoption of analytics is increasing significantly, driven by a wide range of factors, encompassing everything from AI and open source to the soon-to-launch local cloud data centres.

Analytics is a key part of today's digital economy. With AI now making it possible to analyse increasingly vast quantities of information at very rapid speeds, enterprises today can do even more with their data.

There are many moral reasons for seeking to bring more women into the data sciences, but there is also a very good business reason: they offer something different.

There's a disconnect between what universities teach and what industry needs, says Murray de Villiers, senior manager: Global Academic Programmes at SAS.

Banks across Africa face many compliance and risk challenges, but the implementation of an effective Risk and Finance Platform can help them to stay relevant in a rapidly changing market.

As the POPI Act looms, businesses are trying to straddle the line between data mining and data protection.

Africa's greatest opportunity lies in being able to leverage the combination of technologies.

Charles Nyamuzinga, Risk Consultant at SAS, says regulators are becoming more stringent on governance and control issues around methodologies and data that banks use to develop the credit scoring models, and to determine how much capital they need to cover future losses.