Our new white paper, Modern Data Management for FMCG Analytics: Data Lake vs. Ontology Platform, weighs up the pros and cons of Azure Data Lake Storage and a modern ontology platform, before recommending which approach is optimal for FMCG businesses.

The Cheetah release offers streamlined architecture, support for native Spark drivers, and improved resource utilisation and scalability. These and other backend enhancements are facilitated by the integration of Apache Kyuubi into Fraxses.

Business Intelligence on big data enables financial and insurance institutions to mitigate risks, optimise operations, enhance customer experiences and more. Institutions that embrace this data-driven approach gain a competitive advantage and improve their chances of success.

Established companies in every major industry are being challenged by digital disruptors – companies that use technology to gain an edge. In order to remain relevant, established companies must themselves adopt technologies that help them to maximise their strengths.

Intenda welcomed 2 students from NWU’s Centre for Business Mathematics and Informatics to complete 6 month internships with us. Read our blog to for a synopsis of their research projects and to download their mini-dissertations as PDFs.

The latest version of Intenda’s distributed data platform, Fraxses, is scheduled for release in May 2023. The new release, which will be known as Turaco, offers powerful new features and an enhanced user experience, resulting in an exceptional product that represents an important leap forward in the platform’s evolution.

The Gartner® Market Guide for Active Metadata Management focuses on the importance of active metadata management and provides market insights and recommendations. We examine the Market Guide in relation to Fraxses, highlighting key areas of divergence between the two, and outlining some of the new functions Fraxses users can look forward to in 2023.

At Intenda, we are firm believers that the advantages bespoke solutions offer over off-the-shelf products make them well worth the investment. In this blogpost we focus on our development framework, Opus, and some of the key benefits it delivers.

Our new whitepaper, The Transformation of Internal Audit, examines the ways in which the Internal Audit profession must respond to changes in the business landscape in order to remain relevant and add maximum value to business.

Custom software is another term for bespoke software, which can be described as a solution that is specifically designed for a single user or organisation. A bespoke solution can be helpful if a specific type of software is required and there are no suitable off-the-shelf options available.

By leveraging Fraxses’ API capabilities of pedigree and Spark-compliant SQL Query extraction, and creating a custom microservice using the Fraxses Smartwrapper, Fraxses Data Objects were extracted as SQL scripts. This solution eradicated the need for coding, and by using Fraxses as a no-code front end, business users generated their own SQL statements. Fraxses offers the versatility to push the envelope, and new ways to leverage its capabilities was conceived in response to this specific use case.

An online sports betting and gaming provider asked Intenda to conduct a
point solution to establish whether Fraxses had the capability to meet its expanding data needs.
As a key requirement, the
system needed to facilitate automatic data collection and aggregation in real-time or near-real-time.
The point solution clearly demonstrated Fraxses’ capability to solve the gaming provider’s immediate data challenges.