Technology
SDS To Unveil Subscription-Based BI Platform at GITEX
By Dipo Olowookere
Leading retail solutions and services company providing business intelligence (BI) to the retail sector, banks, museums, airports and casinos, and serving more than 400 retailers in over 38 countries, Sàvant Data System (SDS), is unveiling its subscription-based platform for business intelligence at the 36th GITEX Technology Week, being held between October 16 and October 20 at Dubai World Trade Centre.
Founded in the year 2000, SDS helps organizations to develop new insights into making their business more efficient and successful. The company is a pioneer in focusing entirely on optimizing the shopper experience. Its analytics software and retail expertise have enabled several companies in the retail vertical to better understand the shopper journey so as to increase same-store sales, improve customer experience, and eliminate unnecessary costs.
Giving details about the platform, Vic Bageria, CEO, SDS, says, “Our subscription-based platform for business intelligence is an extensive toolset that integrates data from different applications to give visibility in their store operations. It enables companies to take decisions with real time access to business intelligence-related data such as reporting, dashboards, KPIs (key performance indicators), and other related analytics. Armed with the superior intelligence that our platform provides, enterprises can engage in predictive analytics and take smarter decisions to optimize business outcome.”
In today’s challenging times, businesses have to determine which resource requirements to focus on in order to successfully migrate to the cloud, and operate in it. The shifting of the IT infrastructure of an enterprise has many key elements which must be taken into consideration to evaluate the impact of technology on the business. Companies have to determine whether they are able to support the new implementation, and how it will affect their functionality. They also need to figure out the downtime required, and whether they can absorb the additional training costs. Small and mid-size companies, particularly, need to ask themselves whether the new tech purchase will align with their working budget. This is where the platform makes it easy for businesses – they enable them to pay as they go, allowing them to function on an operational level without too many overhead costs. In the process, companies also get access to the resources and expertise of platform hosting experts, depending on which package they choose.
At a time when businesses of all shapes and sizes are absorbing this message, and upgrading their systems and investing in technology, SDS’s platform will be immensely useful as it will enable enterprises to extend the value that business intelligence data currently brings to their operations. The superior SDS platform is set to reinforce accuracy and confidence in decision-making, thus keeping companies one step ahead of the competition.
The main benefits of adopting the BI platform of SDS are minimized hardware and infrastructure cost, and reduced implementation and administrative cost. It offers faster time to value, and a simpler and more predictable set-up, thus enabling businesses to derive benefit right away. During the course of the event, SDS will give a live demonstration of the product, highlighting how it can transform the way companies conduct their business.
By Aduragbemi Omiyale
One of the players in the Nigerian gaming industry, Secure Electronic Technology (SET) Plc, has appointed Ms Leticia Otomewo as its acting secretary.
This followed the expiration of the company’s service contract with the former occupier of the seat, Ms Irene Attoe, on January 31, 2026.
A statement to the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited on Thursday said Ms Otomewo would remain the organisation’s scribe in an acting capacity, pending the ratification and appointment of a substantive company secretary at the next board meeting.
She was described in the notice signed by the Managing Director of the firm, Mr Oyeyemi Olusoji, as “a results-driven executive with 22 years of experience in driving business growth, leading high-performing teams, and delivering innovative solutions.”
The acting secretary is also said to be “a collaborative leader with a passion for mentoring and developing talent.”
“The company assures the investing public that all Company Secretariat responsibilities and regulatory obligations will continue to be discharged in full compliance with the Companies and Allied Matters Act, applicable regulations, and the Nigerian Exchange Limited Listing Rules,” the disclosure assured.
Meanwhile, the board thanked Ms Attoe “for professionalism and contributions to the Company during the period of her engagement and wishes her well in her future endeavours.”
By Adedapo Adesanya
The Russian government on Thursday confirmed it has blocked the WhatsApp messaging service, as it moves to further control information flow in the country.
It urged Russians to use a new state-backed platform called Max instead of the Meta-owned service.
WhatsApp issued a statement earlier saying Russia had attempted to “fully block” its messaging service in the country to force people toward Max, which it described as a “surveillance app.”
“Today the Russian government attempted to fully block WhatsApp in an effort to drive people to a state-owned surveillance app,” WhatsApp posted on social media platform X.
“Trying to isolate over 100 million users from private and secure communication is a backwards step and can only lead to less safety for people in Russia,” it said, adding: “We continue to do everything we can to keep users connected.”
Russia’s latest move against social media platforms and messaging services like WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram comes amid a wider attempt to drive users toward domestic and more easily controlled and monitored services, such as Max.
Russia’s telecoms watchdog, Roskomnadzor, has accused messaging apps Telegram and WhatsApp of failing to comply with Russian legislation requiring companies to store Russian users’ data inside the country, and of failing to introduce measures to stop their platforms from being used for allegedly criminal or terrorist purposes.
It has used this as a basis for slowing down or blocking their operations, with restrictions coming into force since last year.
For Telegram, it may be next, but so far the Russian government has been admittedly slowing down its operations “due to the fact that the company isn’t complying with the requirements of Russian legislation.”
The chat service, founded by Russian developers but headquartered in Dubai, has been a principal target for Roskomnadzor’s scrutiny and increasing restrictions, with users reporting sluggish performance on the app since January.
By Adedapo Adesanya
Nigerian startup, Decide, has emerged as the fourth most accurate Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent for spreadsheet tasks globally, according to results from SpreadsheetBench, a widely referenced benchmark for evaluating AI performance on real-world spreadsheet problems.
According to the founder, Mr Abiodun Adetona, the ranking places Decide alongside well-funded global AI startups, including Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Mr Adetona, an ex-Flutterwave developer, also revealed that Decide now has over 3,000 users, including some who are paying customers, a signal to the ability of the startup to scale in the near future.
SpreadsheetBench is a comprehensive evaluation framework designed to push Large Language Models (LLMs) to their limits in understanding and manipulating spreadsheet data. While many benchmarks focus on simple table QA, SpreadsheetBench treats a spreadsheet as a complex ecosystem involving spatial layouts, formulas, and multi-step reasoning. So far, only three agents rank higher than Decide, namely Nobie Agent, Shortcut.ai, and Qingqiu Agent.
Mr Adetona said SpreadsheetBench measures how well AI agents can handle practical spreadsheet tasks such as writing formulas, cleaning messy data, working across multiple sheets, and reasoning through complex Excel workflows. Decide recorded an 82.5% accuracy score, solving 330 out of 400 verified tasks.
“The result reflects sustained investment in applied research, product iteration, and learning from real-world spreadsheet workloads across a wide range of use cases,” Mr Adetona told Business Post.
For Mr Adetona, who built Decide out of frustration with how much time professionals spend manually cleaning data, debugging formulas, and moving between sheets, “This milestone highlights how focused engineering and domain-specific AI development can deliver frontier-level performance outside of large research organisations. By concentrating on practical business data problems and building systems grounded in real user environments, we believe smaller teams can contribute meaningfully to advancing applied AI.”
“For Decide, this is a foundation for continued progress in intelligent spreadsheet and analytics automation,” he added.
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