“South African companies must embed AI into their businesses to thrive but they need the right data first,” says Hein Pretorius, CEO of technology strategy firm Onpro Consulting. A report jointly compiled by Accenture and the Gordon Institute of…
Ironwood business pattern automation The challenge faced by most businesses in the new digital era will be to not only transform their customer experience, but importantly, their core business processes. Ironwood is a fundamentally new and innovative solution, which…
Image analytics, the means by which computers can visually identify and classify real-world objects, is seeing more widespread use given recent advances in computer vision and machine learning technology. Accurate analytics can now be achieved in real-time, and powerful (often…
Onpro Consulting/IDERA Reseller Agreement to Increase Data Performance for Businesses Johannesburg, 10/10/2018 – Onpro Consulting, an enterprise technology consulting firm with offices in Sandton, South Africa and London, UK, recently announced that it has entered into a reseller agreement with…
Johan Pretorius shares his thoughts on Embracing Change Naturally. Most people in business and IT are now familiar with prescriptive analytics and the accompanying dashboards that help them make business-critical decisions. But have you ever thought about how animals respond…
For many companies, Microsoft SQL Server is an enabling component of their business operations, and the information they retain can reside on anything from one to hundreds of servers. No matter how large data grows, every last byte must be…
AN EVOLUTIONARY STEP FORWARD IN PLANNED MAINTENANCE, PROMISING MAXIMUM ASSET UPTIME, OPTIMAL RESOURCE EFFICIENCIES AND SUBSTANTIAL COST REDUCTION THE MAINTENANCE DEFICIT Every day, businesses in all sectors sacrifice valuable income to unsustainable asset maintenance strategies. While recognising the need to…
We are born with the much-needed intuition of extracting complex information from our environments. We learn by developing hypothesis and testing them for truth, and if they hold truth, we accept them as fact, until they are debunked, and we…
Improved business agility is when large organisations make faster, more accurate, data driven decisions and improve the speed with which these decisions are implemented. Some examples of how IoT and Advanced Analytics will promote business agility are: 1. The collection of…
It is important to collect all data, for machine learning and stream analytics to produce the best possible insights. Even if you think it has no relevance to the question you are trying to find an answer for. Context is…