Roundtables

From BI to big data

When it comes to getting value out of data, corporate South Africa often seems to be stuck at the tactical level of extracting business intelligence for specific reporting duties. What does it take to move beyond this and develop a true big data strategy?

01 March 2019

Where is your organisation on the journey from BI to big data?

Kevin South, head of digital and CX, Seacom: Where we find ourselves is that we have a lot of data that’s growing exponentially, but what do we do with it? How do we structure it? How do we govern it? How do we entrench a data obsession in our people and get them to obsess about using it and monetising it for the business? We’re at the cultural stage of the journey, getting people to realise that the information they’re sitting with on spreadsheets and reports can be used in different ways.

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