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.

It is important to note that the metadata-driven data fabric advanced by Gartner, and which many other data and analytics leaders agree represents the future of data management, is an architectural concept rather than a standalone solution or tool.
However, we at Intenda believe that the way in which the data fabric leverages metadata and the advantages it delivers, as described in Top Trends in Data and Analytics, 2022, are closely aligned to how Fraxses uses metadata and the capabilities the platform offers.

When we look at data and how the requirements for integration have escalated, it all comes down to the data environment. What is the process? Where does it end up? The real question is, how is it being managed and what method or solution works best for each user or organisation?

A new way of integrating data is to ‘bring it home’ by simply extracting and transforming it.

It’s not a new idea to draw on data when making strategic decisions – businesses have been doing so in one way or another for a long time. But in recent years new technologies, coupled with an increase in the amount of data at our disposal, have brought about the emergence of the data-driven organisation: businesses in which every decision and process is anchored in data.