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Business intelligence and analytics

• October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12

  Teradata brings big data into the SQL family

  Teradata addresses the issue of combining unstructured, semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing in a single architecture.

• October 04, 2012 04 Oct'12

  Big data advice from big names, Coca-Cola and Lastminute.com

  Coca-Cola's chief privacy officer and Lastminute.com's innovation head offer advice on data privacy at Big Data Europe

• August 24, 2012 24 Aug'12

  BI users slammed by IT as banshees and telepaths

  Survey discovers IT professionals exasperated and world weary when confronted by BI users uncommunicative and exigent.

• July 30, 2012 30 Jul'12

  From the Editor: Advanced analytics full of promise, but hard to do

  Advanced analytics technology adoption has been slow, but sports analytics has been brought to the fore with the London 2012 Olympics.

• July 06, 2012 06 Jul'12

  BI tool transforms planning, sales and service at TVS Motors

  For TVS Motor, business intelligence tool deployment has enabled better production planning and improved sales and service. Here’s how the company did it.

• May 25, 2012 25 May'12

  SAS: High-performance analytics frees data scientists to model faster

  High-performance analytics on "big data" could aid European companies as they struggle to make headway in the recession, say senior SAS executives. All sectors are turning to big data, they claim.

• May 25, 2012 25 May'12

  Organisational design for analytics function needs governance

  Scant are the absolute rules for the organizational design of the analytics function. It can be outsourced or in-house; sit within a business unit or run from the centre. But it needs governance.

• April 11, 2012 11 Apr'12

  Business analytics skills shortage provokes companies to cast net wide

  Organisations face lack of business analytics skills. Smart companies cast the net wide for the broadest pools of talent, help analysts learn from each other and work to ensure they realize potential.

• March 28, 2012 28 Mar'12

  IBM users reveal five data governance best practices to remember

  IBM customers Nationwide Insurance and Cardinal Health reveal five rules of thumb they learned while implementing highly ambitious data governance programs.

• February 23, 2012 23 Feb'12

  Predictive analytics used to cut costs in oil sector

  Predictive analytics is being used in the oil and gas industry to better manage asset maintenance on capital equipment. And a more enterprisewide adoption of the technology is predicted.

• January 23, 2012 23 Jan'12

  Deloitte spots analytics trends, ethics and open data

  Deloitte identifies four analytics trends: an increased focus on ethics, the rise of open data, new business models and a refusal to do analytics for its own sake.

• January 11, 2012 11 Jan'12

  European river managers delve into new knowledge management system

  The UK’s Environment Agency has procured a semantic wiki based knowledge management (KM) system to aid river restoration across Europe.

• January 11, 2012 11 Jan'12

  BI reporting tools set to aid decision making at Elder Pharmaceuticals

  BI reporting tools are known to buttress quick decision making. In this regard, Elder Pharmaceuticals plans to deploy BI tools for data mobility.

• December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11

  Advanced analytics key component for ‘decision management systems’

  James Taylor, CEO of an independent consulting firm, discusses the need for advanced analytics to build “decision management systems,” which he believes are critical to staying competitive.

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  'Big data' technologies emerge to battle large, complex data sets

  ‘Big data’ technologies that allow the storage, management and analysis of big data are on stream: NoSQL, Hadoop, MapReduce. Mark Whitehorn explains the reasons for their emergence and how they work.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  Shell enterprise MDM foundation proof of concept disturbs rulebook

  Shell has laid a foundation for enterprise master data management, choosing SAP MDM over Microsoft. The major lesson was that IT can build an enterprise MDM system to which the business will come.

• November 17, 2011 17 Nov'11

  Sybase: Data warehousing too slow for ‘big data’ analytics

  Sybase EMEA business development director speaks about ‘big data’ analytics’ need for speed and pronounces traditional data warehousing “antiquated.”

• November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11

  Royal Mail delivers enterprise master data management

  The Royal Mail has delivered a master data management programme stemming from a new electronic data warehouse and BI initiative. Project team leaders claim a people-plus-technology synthesis.

• October 10, 2011 10 Oct'11

  BI software migration to give IndusInd Bank a leg up

  IndusInd is undertaking BI software migration to consolidate data and make most of customer information. Read more about the software migration project.

• September 14, 2011 14 Sep'11

  From the Editors: Bleeding edge in natural language processing, mobile BI and Big Data

  Natural language processing, mobile BI and Big Data are on the leading edge of technology innovation--but should you believe the hype?

• August 03, 2011 03 Aug'11

  Round table: the value of big data

  Learn what our round table of experts thinks of the value and significance of “big data.”

• July 06, 2011 06 Jul'11

  Predictive analytics, data visualisation, player tracking at play at Wimbledon

  IBM provided predictive analytics, player tracking and data visualisation at Wimbledon.

• June 24, 2011 24 Jun'11

  SAS CEO offers analytics over BI, reveals use cases for text analytics

  In an interview, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight advocates analytics over BI query and reporting, explains text analytics use cases and touches on predictive asset management.

• June 01, 2011 01 Jun'11

  DHL uses product-level track and trace system for high-value air cargo

  Logistics company DHL is one business that uses product level track and trace for high value cargo. OnAsset Intelligence provides sensors and data.

• April 05, 2011 05 Apr'11

  PizzaExpress parent turns to customer data analytics to target diners

  The Gondola Group of restaurants, which includes PizzaExpress, Ask, Zizzi, Byron and Kettner's, has gone digital with targeted promotions to casual diners over the past 18 months.

• March 22, 2011 22 Mar'11

  Dundee BI masters programme takes BI practitioners to next level

  Dundee University’s business intelligence masters programme is training practitioners to take a step back, focus on user requirements and think about wider applications to science.

• February 25, 2011 25 Feb'11

  Business intelligence implementation best practices

  Business intelligence implementations are riddled with challenges. Use these best practices to make your business intelligence implementations successful.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  Data management a focus for UK CIOs and the retail sector in 2011

  This could be an important year for data management, and business intelligence in particular in the UK, according to a recent survey. CIOs and retail in particular are optimistic about their IT projects.