Solving problems through greater diversity

Unstructured text is the single largest human-generated data source, and is growing at an incredible rate, says Melissa Jantjies, senior associate systems engineer at SAS.

Data scientists have a tough job as it is, which is why they require a strong and effective analytics platform on which to work. Kelly Lu, a specialist in advanced analytics and artificial intelligence at SAS, unpacks the fundamentals such a platform should offer.

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.

Artificial intelligence presents enterprises with both an opportunity and a challenge, says Akesh Lalla, country manager, SAS South Africa.

SAS understands how important the `smart city' concept is, so it looked to the urban environment as a way to compose an example of taking AI and analytics into the real world.

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.

Graduates today need to be aware that the speed of technological change is such that they will need to learn new skills and take additional courses throughout their career, if they are to remain relevant.

Since banks are the first and last line of defence when it comes to identifying money-laundering transactions, they need the right tools, in the form of advanced analytics, to assist them.

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.