As a high-risk environment built on complex data models, financial intermediation is perfectly positioned to benefit from the Databricks cloud-based data platform. Designed to unify the data analytics life-cycle, Databricks can help modernise risk management for the financial services industry. This will be explored in greater detail at the upcoming Learning Machines webinar to take…
Read more
By Lionel Bisschoff, Founder and CEO of Learning Machines In today’s digitally-driven environment, being able to deliver on customer service that meets continually evolving end user expectations has become a key business priority. In fact, companies that invest in customer experience initiatives have the potential to double their revenue within 36 months. One of the…
Read more
By Fred Senekal, Head of R&D at Machine learning operations (MLOps), the standardisation and streamlining of machine learning lifecycle management, has become one of the most important development areas within business. Machine learning (ML) and data science are being widely adopted within organisations and can deliver practical solutions that provide demonstratable business returns. But to…
Read more
Services built on Databricks’ Lakehouse Platform to provide answers to big data problems, faster and easier. South Africa, June 2021 – Learning Machines, a leading consulting firm specialising in machine learning, big data engineering and cloud services, has partnered with data and AI company Databricks, to drive business value by unifying data and artificial intelligence…
Read more
By Fred Senekal, Head of Research and Development at Learning Machines Paying attention to the 5 Vs (volume; velocity; variety; veracity; and value) of data is critical if a company is to derive strategic value from its big data. With these informing the decision-making process, an organisation can transform into a data-led environment. Gathering, processing,…
Read more
As more companies continue to establish their presence in the cloud and the proportion of worldwide data stored in the public cloud set to grow to almost 50%, according to research, service providers will have their work cut out to compete and add value. This is according to Learning Machines, a leading consulting firm specialising…
Read more
Being ready and able to handle the weight of pressure on the business while tackling the daily data avalanche is easier said than done. In today’s market, businesses face numerous challenges, not least of which is the need to add value, compete successfully and generate profit all the while handling messy data, having to understand…
Read more
Google is the trailblazer in terms of internet age style computing. If your mission is: “Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” – one can expect to run into a few challenges. Google was prepared to commit serious money to solving these challenges, and to to do so they recruited the…
Read more
We’ve been doing a lot of research as part of our own journey to deepen our understanding of machine learning techniques during the past 18 months. As we visit more and more clients to explain machine learning to people, what it is and how it can help companies achieve various goals more efficiently, we have…
Read more
If all your data is in one database, your systems are probably slowing down at an exponential rate. If your data is distributed over different database platforms, servers and locations you are probably struggling to get a clear picture of what is going on in your organisation. You are not alone! These two scenarios, or…
Read more