Beware of the ‘data vacuum’
Data should help to drive business decision-making, not simply reinforce decisions already taken, argues Mark Sands. Every day, senior business people need to …
Power to the people: Creating trust in data with collaborative governance
By shifting power to users at all levels of an organisation, collaborative governance has the power to transform industries, argues Jean-Michel Franco. …
Breaking big data into business sense
Ram Vaidyanathan sets out a step-by-step approach to extracting true value from big data. In the year 2002, Billy Beane and Paul DePodesta famously used the …
Timely financial reporting for smart insights
Financials are the lifeblood of every business – and yet gaining access to accurate real-time financial reporting can be more like getting blood from a …
Big data does not make business smarter
Michael O’Connell argues that analytics and data science, rather than just big data, is what will provide businesses with the leverage they need for …
Self-service analytics peaks; embedded analytics next priority
Adoption of self-service analytics tools has peaked and is now in a two-year decline, a report by Logi Analytics has found. The 2017 State of Analytics …
TIBCO launches Insight Platform
TIBCO Software has launched a real-time Insight Platform, which brings multiple technologies together to form “an intelligent digital nervous system” …
Accenture wins contract to deliver ABS data collection systems
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has awarded a $19.9 million contract to Accenture, for the delivery of new data collection systems to streamline its …
Lenovo streamlines supply chain management with big data solution
Lenovo has chosen Talend Data Fabric to streamline product and inventory data from suppliers, vendors, and manufacturing as well as repositories, warehouse, …
Travel automation platform integrates Yellowfin for reporting
Tramada Systems’ has integrated the Yellowfin BI platform into its cloud-based travel automation solution, tramada, to deliver a rebranded BI module which …