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Duchess gains business insight with KID's hosted BI solution
Business intelligence (BI) has traditionally been the territory of large enterprises with the time, money and skills to use analysis, and slice and dice tools to examine their corporate databases and discover trends and patterns in their information. Smaller companies have, until now, not had the ability to access the same tools and functionality for the benefit their organisations. [28 March 2003]
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Tukkies students beef up data warehouse design course with MicroStrategy
Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID) has made 50 licences of its business intelligence tool MicroStrategy available to the University of Pretoria's Department of Informatics. The MicroStrategy platform will be used to provide training in full lifecycle business intelligence solution development, implementation and usage. [19 March 2003]
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Hallmark chooses MicroStrategy to track global sales, profitability
Hallmark Cards, the worldwide leader in greeting cards, has chosen the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform as its enterprise standard for business reporting, analysis and information delivery. [26 Feb 2003]
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KID brings data mining to life at Pretoria University
Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID) has helped bring a data mining course at Pretoria University to life for Department of Informatics students, using its Netmap tool. KID sold Netmap to the University of Pretoria last year and worked with the Department of Informatics to enliven the course by providing actual industry data to the students, who previously had to work with data downloaded from the Internet. [January 2003]
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Medical Scheme Administrator combats fraud with forensic data mining
Metropolitan Health Group (MHG), one of South Africa's largest medical scheme administrators, uses a sophisticated tool to combat medical aid fraud and abuse. This progressive business tool enhances MHG's ability to conduct utilisation review studies and forensic studies into fraudulent transactions, a major driver of spiralling healthcare costs. The intelligence solution was developed using Netmap from data mining vendor, Netmap Analytics, represented locally by Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID). [24 September 2002]
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Tiger drives market responsiveness with data warehouse from KID
Tiger Food Brands has implemented an integrated data warehousing solution with the help of business intelligence specialist Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID) to provide its users with a consolidated view of customers across the group, as part of its drive to become a demand-driven food business. [17 July 2002]
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MicroStrategy cuts JD Group report generation time from 3 weeks to 2 minutes
Furniture appliance and financial services retailer, JD Group, has cut its transactional report generation time from approximately three weeks to around two minutes since installing business intelligence tool MicroStrategy, supplied by Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID). [26 April 2002]
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University of Pretoria launches SA's first data mining studies with KID's Netmap
The University of Pretoria has launched South Africa's first ever data mining and data warehousing studies course focussing on commercial applications, using Knowledge Integration Dynamics' Netmap as the core study unit for its students. [13 March 2002]
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KID transfers data warehousing knowledge to Discovery Health
Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID) has completed a data warehousing training and skills transfer programme at the health financing company, Discovery Health.
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CGU Insurance identifies value with Informix Red Brick
CGU Insurance identifies value with Informix Red Brick
CGU Insurance has implemented a data mart, designed and supported by Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID), as a proof-of-concept project to identify the bottom-line value a company-wide data warehousing project will provide the business.
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Data warehouse underpins MX Health's drive to slash healthcare costs
MX Health, the specialised claims administrator, has employed a customised, analytically empowered version of the Informix Red Brick data warehouse database as part of its strategy to develop affordable healthcare products.
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Medicross relies on KID and Red Brick for managed healthcare
Capitated managed healthcare has been the secret behind the dramatic growth of the Medicross group of clinics, and crucial to its success has been an Informix Red Brick-based data warehouse configured by Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID).
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Outsourcer FinSource develops Net-linked unit trust information
FinSource, a provider of outsourced financial administration solutions, has developed the capacity to provide its customers with current business intelligence reports over the Internet. An investment in Informix Red Brick data warehousing technology has resulted in the establishment of a unit trusts and wrap funds client ledger data mart, with further phases planned for portfolio management.
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Sara Lee is on Target with Red Brick
Attempts to extract and summarise large amounts of data necessary to support business analysis, can result in degraded performance and disk space usage of the operational or enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
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Transmed Administrators data warehouse produces ROI 'beyond expectations'
Transmed Administrators, the medical aid administrator for Transnet, has reported return on investment (ROI) "beyond expectations" on its corporate data warehouse since it went live early this year.
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Transnet Stops R3m Medical Fraud
Anti-fraud software solution, Netmap, has seen success in South African transport parastatal Transnet, recovering about R3 million per annum in fraudulent medical aid claims.
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OUTsurance turns data into information
OUTsurance the South African short-term insurance company in the RMB Holdings group has embarked on a data warehousing exercise to ensure its customer data is used to the maximum in providing service to customers and good returns to the business. [14 September 2001]
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