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.

The companies collaborate to offer compliance and fraud detection solutions to financial services firms across Africa.

Data scientists have a tough job as it is, which is why they require a strong and effective analytics platform on which to work.

The solution targets non-SAS sites to help take analytics models out of the lab and into reality faster.

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

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 partnership targets the South African public sector with analytic software and services.

Akesh Lalla will be responsible for expanding the company's outreach to unexplored market segments and driving its revenue growth.

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.

While open source analytics programs are effective in an academic environment, corporates want graduates who also understand how to use the sophisticated enterprise technologies that are required by business.

How AI and analytics is helping to create the skills index that will be used to determine future generations of football stars.