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Qlik: The business intelligence tool of choice – Interview with Director, Upuli de Abrew

Business executives only have 30% insight into the massive lakes of data their organisations produce and harvest, says Insight Consulting Director Upuli De Abrew. She says data only turns into useful information when businesses can make sense of it with active intelligence to derive actionable insights. De Abrew says Qlik is the only true end-to-end…

How to create real value through data analysis – Interview with Director, Sean Taylor

It is widely accepted that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated businesses’ digital transformation strategies. These investments are not made for their own sake, but to have a positive, measurable impact on a business. If one sits down with any C-suite, their reason for embarking on the journey is almost always to unlock value to become…

A business, like a rugby team, needs on-field intelligence to make the right calls

As the world comes to terms with the advantages that digitisation has brought to enhance efficiencies and competitiveness, most C-suites understand the value of business intelligence (BI). Simply put, an effective BI solution can save time, money and enable almost real-time decision-making that can have a material impact on a business’s performance. But how does…

Creating a data culture, by Director, Upuli de Abrew

Data is indisputably the foundation for success for any organisation in today’s world. Not very long ago, investing in data and associated management strategies was touted as a way to gain competitive advantage. With the rampant and unceasing growth of data in the world today, data strategies have now become a necessity for survival. The…

Business and data symbiosis: The who and what of data strategy – Interview with Director, Upuli de Abrew

A data strategy should be as organic as a company: growing, changing and moving, responding to environmental and internal forces. With data and associated processes around data having historically been an IT function, it is easy to see why, as data permeates and proliferates the business world, data strategy has naturally fallen into the IT…

SA consultancy reboots multinational contributor to food security in Africa

“End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.” UN, Sustainable Development Goal 2 – Zero Hunger South Africa’s analytical data strategy and business intelligence consultancy, Insight Consulting, is being credited with unleashing operational efficiency at Mauritius headquartered The Meridian Group. The group is the holding company of 23 subsidiaries across Malawi,…

Culture Change: The missing link to successful BI, by Director, Upuli de Abrew

Data culture must be firmly entrenched in the company’s corporate culture and also become a considerable portion of its data strategy. Corporate culture, an overarching term for the shared practices and values of a company’s employees, guides how the employees of a company act, feel and think. It is also the social and psychological environment…

Interactive chatbots solve actionable BI challenges, by Sean Gordon

One of the biggest challenges faced by organisations after they have invested large sums of money into business intelligence (BI) tools, is ensuring that key actionable insights end up in the hands of the people who need it to make important decisions. This is according to Sean Gordon, senior business intelligence developer at Insight Consulting.…

It’s time for design thinking in data projects, by Director, Upuli de Abrew

Design thinking looks beyond traditional procedures and practices of logic-based problem-solving, to the perspective of those who use the product or service. In the years that I have spent working on data projects, I’ve found those that deliver the most value and have longevity in an organisation are those where the end-users of the data…

C-Suites should drive data strategies to avoid disconnect with business strategy, by Lee Wearne

Enterprises must prioritise security, governance and user adoption for successful implementation. The urgency of implementing enterprise data management strategies comes from an acute awareness that businesses need to put their data to work effectively to influence business decisions and efficiency, and ultimately help steer the direction of the business. C-suites understand that this urgency is…