Analytics facilitates machine learning and AI systems

Analytics is an important component of the technology mix and technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, will not deliver strategic business value without effective analytics at their core, says enterprise resource planning multinational SAP Africa Business Analytics director Neil Herbert. Business leaders are combining data with multiple machine-learning algorithms and in-memory computing capabilities to gain real-time and predictive insights that can assist with quicker and more accurate decisions, he highlights.