Recent Blog Posts

This is a guest blogpost by Jim Conning, Managing Director of Royal Mail Data Services (RMDS). The forthcoming 25 May implementation date for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is ...

IoT Back to Basics, chapter 3: It’s no surprise that security and governance are important considerations when it comes to the IoT, but quite how incredibly important they are may not be ...

This is a guest blog by Jayne Wilcock, curriculum and data manager at East Riding of Yorkshire Council ‘Technology gives the quietest student a voice’ and few would argue ...

This is a guest blogpost by Julian Box, CEO, Calligo. The prospect of ambulance-chasing lawyers interesting themselves in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now very real. With just a ...

As a central bank, industry developer and regulator, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) relies on a broad set of transactional, behavioural and social media data to craft policies and drive ...

Infostretch has launched QMetry Test Manager for JIRA on the Atlassian Marketplace. The company itself is a Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development methodologies software application ...

Debate and discussion around data management, analytics, BI and information governance.

This is a guest blog post by Martin Willcox, director of big data, Teradata Today's increasingly crowded and competitive business environment has led to an explosion in the popularity of real-time ...

This is a guest blogpost by Jarred McGinnis, UK managing consultant of Ontotext, which explores the interdependency of business intelligence and enterprise-strength semantic search. Business ...

This is a guest blogpost by Alex Bordei, head of product management, Bigstep In today's fast-paced business landscape, experimentation is key when it comes to innovation and gaining and maintaining ...

This is a guest blogpost by George Mathew, president & COO, Alteryx In recent years, we've seen a trend line for data volumes and velocity to go up, and to the right. This continued growth has ...

This is a guest blogpost by James Richardson, Business Analytics Strategist, QlikWhen we design a Qlik app, does its aesthetic quality influence how much credence people give to the analysis it ...

This is a guest blogpost by Martin Willcox, director, Big Data (International) at TeradataWhile it's not particularly breaking news - unless you've recently emerged from some isolated cave - the ...

This is a guest blogpost by Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM In a world in which Samsung has launched a refrigerator that connects via a mass-market IoT (Internet of Things) hub to your smartphone ...

This is a guest blog post by Paul Joyce, CEO of Geckoboard The vast majority of businesses today buy into the value of data. Whether it is driving innovation within an organisation or providing ...

This is a guest blogpost by Daniel Fallmann, CEO at Mindbreeze Irrespective of whether a company wants to boost its customer service efforts, intensify the efficiency of its marketing activities, ...

A guest blogpost by Matt Davies, head of marketing, EMEA, Splunk No matter the size, industry, or geographical location of an enterprise, it will have a cloud strategy. But despite this, when it ...

Raymie Stata, the chief executive and co-founder of Altiscale, and a former chief technology officer at Yahoo, had some reflections on the first ten years of Hadoop when he spoke to me on the phone ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ravi Shankar, chief marketing officer at Denodo I predict that 2016 is going to be the year that data is finally liberated. Data, at long last, is going to be ...

This is a guest blogpost by analyst Mike Ferguson on the 10th anniversary of Hadoop's becoming a separate Apache subproject. In the 10 years since Hadoop became an Apache project the momentum ...

This a guest blogpost by James Richardson, business analytics strategist, Qlik I find solace in the many worlds interpretation (MWI) of reality. In layman's terms, the idea, first proposed by ...

This is a guest post by Matt Davies, technical evangelist, Splunk As is the way, it is time for looking forward to 2016 technology and predictions as to how IT and business will evolve over the ...

In a guest blogpost, Emil Eifrem of Neo Technology says graph databases detect sophisticated scams and fraud rings in real timeBefore PayPal came along, online commerce was fraught with security ...

This is a guest blogpost by Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM It's that time again: prediction season. Many predictions have been made by the global research and intelligence companies. Gartner has ...

This is a guest blogpost by Dr. Thore Rabe, vice-president Europe, Middle East, Africa - Isilon Division at EMC It is now well known that the digital universe, which comprises most businesses' data ...

This is a guest blogpost by Matt Davies, technical evangelist, SplunkThey say you don't know what you don't know. It's the same with your data. Most organisations have data they know about, collect ...

This is a guest blogpost by Andy Leaver, vice president of international operations, Hortonworks Mass advertising and campaign marketing are like the dodgy lettuce found somewhere at the back of ...

This is a guest blog post by James Richardson, Business Analytics Strategist at Qlik. In it, he speculates on what the analytics future may look like by 2021 (just don't hold him to it!)At this ...

This is a guest blogpost by Dave Elkington, CEO, Insidesales.com The phrase "predictive analytics" has become a trendy buzzword that seems to show up in every investor pitch in order to elicit ...

This is a guest blogpost by Oleg Rogynskyy, VP of Marketing & Growth, H2O.ai Before the emergence of today's massive data sets, organisations primarily stored their data in relational databases ...