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 …
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Self-service analytics tops list of 10 analytics trends for 2017
The advanced analytics market will nearly double in size between 2017 and 2020, according to global analytics and advisory firm Quantzig, with self-service …
Ajilon delivers BI expertise to Roy Hill mines
Australian IT consulting and services provider Ajilon, in partnership with Microsoft, has developed a business analytics platform to help Australian mining …
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 …
Eight steps to becoming a data-driven organisation
Steve Singer provides some timely advice on how to employ Kotter’s change management model to make data the backbone of an organisation. Australian …
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 …
Executives lack confidence in analytics insights and measurements: survey
Business leaders reported a shocking lack of confidence in their ability to measure the effectiveness and impact of data and analytics (D&A) and a lack of …
The next wave in business intelligence
Highly prioritised by technology buyers around the world, business intelligence is evolving quickly but remains complex. Glen Rabie discusses the 10 trends set …
TIBCO works with ASX to create interconnected data platform
With data sources proliferating throughout organisations, one of the challenges for enterprises is how to best integrate, interconnect and leverage this data. …
Survey reveals uneven progress toward BDA readiness in Asia-Pacific
Research from IDC Asia/Pacific reveals that while 34 per cent of organisations in the region have now progressed to mature stages of big data and analytics …