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Data warehousing

Southern Water’s centralised data team geared for silo busting

Southern Water has centralised its data specialists and overhauled its data management and business intelligence technology to support business decision-making at scale Continue Reading
Silicon Valley startups home in on pressing value from data

A slew of California-based startup and early-stage data analytics companies are promising CIOs better ways to get value from their investments in databases and analytics Continue Reading
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor speaks about ‘expanding universe’ of BI

Co-founder and CEO of MicroStrategy takes the long view on business intelligence and sees its universe expanding with mobile technologies Continue Reading
Understanding analytics and storage performance

Analytics workloads place specific demands on storage. We take a look at the workload profiles of analytics use cases and the storage platforms available to support them Continue Reading
How SAS is prepping its marketers for the data flood

A shift in culture and mindset is necessary for marketers to succeed in tapping marketing analytics to stay relevant to the needs of customers Continue Reading

Australia a hotbed for data analytics

Market for technologies that help organisations make sense of vast volumes of data is hotting up Down Under Continue Reading
A Good American: Surveillance, 9/11 and the NSA

Computer Weekly sat down to watch Friedrich Moser's documentary about the NSA whistleblower Bill Binney - A Good American Continue Reading
Master data management gains ground in UK public sector

Local authorities and NHS organisations in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland are making slow but sure progress with master data management technology to gain a single view of the citizen Continue Reading
Apache Spark grows in popularity as Hadoop-based data lakes fill up

Apache Spark is growing in popularity and finding real-time use across Europe, including in online betting and on railways, and with Hadoop Continue Reading
Netherlands needs ‘bottom up’ approach to create smart cities

Dutch municipalities see the need to make their cities smarter, but often lack the necessary knowledge and do not know where to begin Continue Reading
CW@50: Data management – Five decades of prospecting for business value

Data management and business intelligence have been at the heart of business value creation for decades. Read about how Computer Weekly has tracked their promise and tribulations Continue Reading

Interview: James Bamford on surveillance, Snowden and technology companies

Investigative journalist and documentary maker James Bamford was among the first to uncover the secrets of the US National Security Agency and its global surveillance Continue Reading
How Asean organisations are untangling big data storage challenge

If organisations are to benefit from the promise of big data they must get on top of a legal and regulatory minefield when it comes to storing data. How are Asean IT departments navigating this? Continue Reading
Analytics helps Asean organisations read between the lines

Asean organisations need to develop an enterprise-wide approach to analytics and draw on customer insight if they are to maximize the business value of data Continue Reading
Australian businesses running the numbers on analytics-driven customer service

Australian businesses, such as the University of Adelaide, are gaining customer insights from large volumes of data through data analytics technology. Continue Reading