Ad hoc analysis: business intelligence’s fast food problem

Matthew Gierc·6 November 2018·Data & Analytics

...The ad hoc promise. In a world where businesses live or die on data, self-serve BI is the information super-food we’ve been waiting for. Or so the rhetoric around this popular tool would have us believe. Also known as data exploration, exploratory data analysis, data discovery and ad hoc reporting, self-serve… Read More...

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BI strategy beyond Excel – Business intelligence and business analytics in a data-driven world

Matthew Gierc·6 November 2018·Data & Analytics

...In a data-driven world, it’s odd that gut instinct still plays such a big part in business decisions. But why isn’t surprising: Not only do businesses have more data than they can handle, but they’re also using a tool never designed to gather BI (Business Intelligence) in the first place. Read More...

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The future of analytics: the cloud, big data and AI

Nathan Sykes·1 November 2018·Data & Analytics

...Cybersecurity experts are in higher demand than ever — and is it any wonder? The vast connectivity of technology these days comes with undeniable opportunities, but also a host of security and privacy concerns that increasingly attract the attention of governments. Now that our computers are powerful enough and can be… Read More...

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A Sustainable Eclectic Inspiring Retail Fashion Brand Story

Tony D'Onofrio·1 November 2018·Customer Engagement

...Five Reasons FREITAG Epitomizes the Future of Retail. Retail inspiration can be found in every corner of the world and for this blog post, we visit Switzerland. FREITAG is the quiet Zurich based fashion accessory brand selling over 300,000 of its unique products across the globe every year. Read More...

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The first 100 days of the new CISO: how to avoid the “curse of firefighting”.

JC GAILLARD·1 November 2018·Cyber Security

...With regards to many other C-level roles, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) position is a fairly recent creation for many organisations. Although it started to emerge over 15 years ago, it has been spurred further recently by growing concerns over cybersecurity and highly publicized data breaches. Figuring out its… Read More...

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So, welcome to the age of digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft·31 October 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...Digital technology is about to become the precursor for all the changes we have put off for years within our organizations. We need to radically improve our abilities to engage, relate and discover new innovation opportunities at a completely different level of faster performance. There are many issues both… Read More...

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Serialized private portals are direct assertion of identity

Chris Murphy·30 October 2018·Cyber Security

...A serialized private portal is a unique operating environment that can be identified when it is in use. The methodology overcomes many inherent cybersecurity weaknesses including: Browsers – performing secure and public activity the exact same way is an easy exploitation. Browsers are content-mining applications and there is no reason… Read More...

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‘Meetings’​ will be the death of your company

Greg Taylor·30 October 2018·People & Change

...Level with me — how many times have you sat in meetings knowing full well that it’s a waste of time. Is that monthly, weekly, daily, or hourly? Most of us in the ‘business world’ have experienced this at some point in our careers but few of us do anything… Read More...

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Change the system, change the culture

Lee Bryant·25 October 2018·People & Change

...The challenge of transforming large, complex organisations that have grown up around calcified hierarchies and process management structures is a hard one. There are no easy answers. It requires knowledge across various fields including technology, culture, psychology, org design, learning, networks, new ways of working, etc., so we… Read More...

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Cloud computing’s impact on Healthcare

Nathan Sykes·25 October 2018·Enabling Technologies

...If you’ve been visiting the doctor regularly, good for you! Some parts of the digital-first healthcare experience will already be familiar to you. But for those of us who might’ve let a few years go by without a routine checkup, some of technology’s impact on health care might take you… Read More...

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Why the mainframe demands relevance in a Cloud-centric world

Simon Ratcliffe·25 October 2018·Enabling Technologies

...In a previous post, we asked if the Mainframe is an Anomaly in a World of Digital Transformations. The mainframe is the bedrock of enterprise computing. It is the foundation of banking, manufacturing, retail, energy, most of the public sector and many more vertical sectors. With this breadth of use, this is not going… Read More...

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Why organisations nowadays want an analytics platform

Ronald van Loon·25 October 2018·Data & Analytics

...With the nascent stage of the data revolution past us, organisations are entering a new level of proficiency in handling data expertly. Gone are the days when organisations could handle data and extract insights out of it, without the presence of an analytics platform. The importance of enterprise analytics platforms… Read More...

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