Data is everywhere and all companies big and small keep data in one form or other. The data may be a list of customers or clients or students, a list of software licenses, a list of computers, a list of chairs or assets such as vehicles. Mahalasoft provides data management services including cleaning, analysis and merging of data sets. Just hand us your data and we will hand it back to you in the format you require.

Infossist.co.za

Infossist.co.za is a site that collects, aggregates and makes displays data sets about South Africa. In the future Infossist will hold and report on data about the African continent as a whole. South Africa was chosen as the country to implement a proof of concept.

The process of maintaining Infossist spans the whole data management and Business Intelligence fields. The steps include:

  • Finding and extracting the data set
  • Transforming the data set into a data warehouse
  • Loading the data into the production database
  • Producing the charts and graphs to convert the data into information.

The entire process requires strong data management skills.

Good bye paper books hello ebooks

I might be an early adopter when it comes to software but I am old fashioned away from my computer. I like reading and in recent years I have not been able to read too many books. There just is not enough time in a day and some of the books I would like to read are just too bulky to carry around. Given the choice of carrying a book around or my smart phone, I mostly chose the latter. At least with the smart phone I could read blogs online.

Enter the Kindle, I was given a Kindle as present and after a couple of months using the Kindle I have to admit to say I don't care too much for good old fashioned paper books any more. They take up too much space, are cumbersome to carry around, can take days to be delivered when ordered online. I love the convenience of the Kindle. The Kindle is light, simple, understated but it reads exactly as a book would with no glare from the screen and I can read from it for hours on end.