According to PwC, while Industrie 4.0 is transforming manufacturing rapidly and digital transformation has been on the C-suite’s agenda for years, just a small group of companies is in a position to gain real competitive advantage from this operations revolution.

Says Wayne Borcher, COO of data specialists SSA: “In reviewing PwC’s Strategy & Global...

dOdata is a gathering of decision-makers, business leaders and captains of the digital arena who bring queries, solutions and experience to an intimate gathering willing to share their knowledge on data, digital and effective implementations of both.

The most recent dOdata event centered around information management and why the responsibility for an organisation’s data and security...

With businesses already feeling a strong impact of clients flexing their new-found data privacy muscles, it’s clear that the age of collecting, using and storing data about individuals any way you can is over.

This is the word from Wayne Borcher, COO of data specialists SSA, who urges South African business leaders to take GDPR as seriously as they must take the Protection of...

 “When the so-called ‘misuse’ of Facebook data by British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica came to light in March 2018, South Africans were still reeling from the ‘deeds office’ leak that affected 60-million citizens, both dead and alive, in October 2017. The real effects, however, are possibly still not known.”

So, says Wayne Borcher, COO of...

As a strategic enterprise technology provider, SSA advises on the establishment of a strong governance team and strategy before taking the digitisation journey. This means creating a blueprint that includes the establishment of policies and procedures to ensure your legacy data becomes usable, clean and valuable current data, through a structured process that ensures accuracy and longevity.

The IT department - data scientists, analysts and tech developers – have traditionally been the gatekeepers of data, and anyone requiring that data was also required to jump through internal regulatory hoops to get access to it. This process could take anything from days to weeks – while customers waited for answers.

With the new understanding that data is the mother lode of a mine...