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Our co-founder and CEO Jacobus Eksteen was one of 20 esteemed speakers at BankTech 2021, sharing their insights on technology in banking, at this year’s hybrid event – presenters and attendees could participate virtually or in person at the Indaba Hotel, Johannesburg. The conference focused on challenges faced by financial and banking institutions, and includedRead more

This article showcases Matogen Applied Insights’(MAI) analytics capabilities within the agricultural sector, examining how employing deep learning for plant disease image recognition can be used to identify crop disease. Plant pathology Even in the modern era, plant disease still poses significant risks to crops, despite the widespread use of crop protection products. In fact, misdiagnosingRead more

The telecommunications industry is a dynamic, competitive and very strategic environment, but is prone to a particular phenomenon. Not only do telecoms companies need to be concerned about competitors’ encroaching on their market share, their very own products may be eating into their profits! This so-called “market cannibalisation” happens when there is a loss inRead more

What is “Big Data” in healthcare? “Big data” is commonly and academically defined to have three significant characteristics: volume, variety and velocity. One of the key industries where generated data adheres to these definitions to a large extent is the healthcare industry. Tellingly, at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, big data originating from theRead more

Engineering credit data has become imperative considering the increasingly risky and competitive lending environment. In order to improve decisioning, credit providers often leverage bureau summary variables which are generally calculated from credit bureau data sources. This includes credit account data, deeds office information, collections and microlending data. Bureau information gaps However, there are gaps inRead more

Creating an irrigation model was one of Matogen Applied Insights’ (MAI) earliest projects within the agricultural sector. It examined how data-driven farm management can optimise irrigation practices. Crop irrigation optimisation Due to population growth, industrialisation and contamination, there is increasing pressure on the amount of water available for irrigating agricultural crops. It has become criticalRead more

What is “resilience”? The dictionary defines “Resilience” as “an ability to recover from, or adjust easily to, misfortune or change.” Based on many years of clinical research, a team of neuroscientists developed an innovative code to deliver insights into human resilience and how it can drive high performance teams within the corporate realm. The clientRead more

The COVID pandemic constitutes a Black Swan event, of which the economic consequences have only started to unfold.  According to a McKinsey report, the sudden and simultaneous depression in supply and demand resulted in typical credit-risk data becoming “obsolete overnight”. Traditional 6 and 12 month old data were no longer suitable for identifying the resilienceRead more

Matogen Applied Insights (MAI) was approached by the director of a European medical company to provide a business case by modelling projections on  the predicted return on investment for a new online platform aimed at connecting people and healthcare.  The prospective healthcare services site includes listings of medical professionals across a broad spectrum of specialisations,Read more

Right party contact is an integral component of strategic business decision-making, necessitated by increasingly difficult business trading conditions and is critical for optimised marketing, customer service and collections efforts. Customer identity resolution A major South African telecoms company found that its  marketing and sales endeavours  were hampered by the high velocity in customer contact informationRead more