Business intelligence and analytics
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E-Zine
09 Nov 2023
Heineken lets the data flow
In this month’s CW EMEA ezine, we find out about Heineken’s mission to make the most out of the data it holds through an enterprise-wide data ecosystem. We also look at how the UK has turned its back on the German government-funded Gaia-X data platform, why cyber experts are urging the EU to rethink vulnerability disclosure plans, and how the IT industry is responding to the software developer skills shortfall. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
02 Oct 2023
CDO interview: Lalo Luna, global head of strategy and insights, Heineken
The brewing giant is building a data ecosystem to bring new insights to the business and to make the most of emerging developments in artificial intelligence capabilities Continue Reading
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News
01 May 2013
British Army data quality programme tackles ‘whole army’ concept
The British Army’s data quality programme faces a challenge with moves to unify regular and territorial soldiers into one force Continue Reading
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News
01 May 2013
Beyond Big Data – The New Information Economy
How information is managed is more important than 'big data', say analysts Clive Longbottom and Rob Bamforth. Continue Reading
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News
01 May 2013
Information Security Breaches Survey 2013
Security breaches cost large businesses an average of £850,000, the 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey reveals. Continue Reading
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News
30 Apr 2013
Tesco uses supply chain analytics to save £100m a year
Understanding return on capital employed was a driving force behind an analytics programme which saves Tesco £100m in supply chain costs Continue Reading
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News
29 Apr 2013
Case study: Telefonica Ireland uses business intelligence to reduce churn
O2 Ireland, part of Telefonica, has been using Teradata’s data warehousing and Cognos BI to stop customers leaving and entice them with location-based offers Continue Reading
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Tip
22 Apr 2013
Change management tips for BI program managers
TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson writes that business intelligence managers can learn some valuable lessons from the book "Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard." Continue Reading
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News
17 Apr 2013
Business Outcomes from Big Data
This research study from CEB evaluates the CIO's role in making big data attainable and useful for the business. Continue Reading
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News
09 Apr 2013
CIO interview: Mary Hensher, IT director, Cancer Research UK
Charity Cancer Research has felt the impact of recession on fundraising and the need to innovate through technology is more important than ever Continue Reading
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News
04 Apr 2013
Is EMC Greenplum the real Hadoop company?
EMC Greenplum launched two new Hadoop-related technologies to support Big Data deployments. Analyst Group, Nucleus Research assesses their importance. Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2013
Business intelligence program needs long-term tending to fully blossom
The evolution of Quicken Loans' business intelligence strategy from static reporting to self-service BI holds useful lessons for other organizations. Continue Reading
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News
22 Mar 2013
42% of businesses use existing IT department for big data projects
Businesses are creating in--house big data functions with 42% of big data pioneers use existing IT resources and 37% creating separate functions Continue Reading
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News
20 Mar 2013
CIO interview: Darrell Stein, IT director, Marks & Spencer
As M&S develops its multi-channel capability, Darrell Stein and his team are delivering projects focused on innovation and profitability Continue Reading
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News
15 Mar 2013
Accenture delivers rapid reporting for Six Nations
In sponsoring the Six Nations Rugby tournament, Accenture has shown how rapid prototyping can be applied to building enterprise reports Continue Reading
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News
12 Mar 2013
CW Buyer's Guide: Big Data Infrastructure
Computer Weekly looks at the mindset and technology infrastructure businesses need to analyse big data. Continue Reading
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News
06 Mar 2013
Businesses and IT suppliers to collaborate on big data
Businesses are to collaborate to work out how to exploit the rapidly growing volume of data generated by social media, mobile devices and the internet of things. Continue Reading
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News
18 Feb 2013
Innovative business technologies in a converging world
This independently researched report investigates converging business technologies, including cloud computing, big data analytics and business intelligence. Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Feb 2013
Business applications, data analytics can make business lean
Centralised business apps, such as ERP and CRM can frustrate, but also make a business lean. Data analytics has a fresh Six Sigma role to play Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2013
Gartner: analytics will be more transparent, real-time and automated
Analyst firm Gartner has identified three trends for analytics and BI: transparency, real-time and automation Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Feb 2013
Rugby Football Union uses IBM predictive analytics for Six Nations
IBM tries out predictive analytics software, TryTracker, developed in association with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2013
Sap business suite now available on Sap Hana
This analyst report from Nucleus Research assess the impact of SAPs decision to power SAP Business Suite by its SAP HANA in memory database technology. Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2013
CW Special Report on Oracle
This special report, updated for 2012, gives an independent view of the challenges facing Oracle, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. Continue Reading
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News
05 Feb 2013
Interview: John Harris, vice-president of global enterprise architecture, Aimia
Aimia, the organisation behind retail loyalty programme Nectar, is overhauling its IT to make the most of customer data Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Feb 2013
Without analytics, it's 'big data, big schmada'
Data -- including big data -- has no value by itself, says TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson. It's what you do with data to gain business insights that counts. Continue Reading
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News
01 Feb 2013
Don’t make big data stand alone, warns Gartner
Gartner cautions organisations against treating big data as unique and criticises business intelligence suppliers for failing to exploit mobility Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Jan 2013
Online gambling sector bets on business intelligence
Online gambling and gaming industries crave structured business data. Volumes can be huge and they need to react to customer behaviour Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Jan 2013
GE uses big data to power machine services business
GE, one of the UK's largest manufacturers, is using big data analytics with data generated from machine sensors to predict maintenance needs Continue Reading
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News
17 Jan 2013
Betting site YouWin speeds response times with MongoDB database
Bookmaker WinUnited has deployed a MongoDB open source non-relational database from 10gen to help it better update betting odds in real time Continue Reading
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News
11 Jan 2013
SAP puts Business Suite on HANA, joins transactional to analytical
SAP has announced that its Business Suite software now runs on the HANA in-memory database Continue Reading
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News
09 Jan 2013
King.com gaming site unlocks big data with Hadoop
Online gaming company King.com replaced its MySQL database with Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution to cope with big data Continue Reading
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News
14 Dec 2012
CIO interview: Kevin O’Connor, Carlson Wagonlit Travel
As the new CIO at Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Kevin O’Connor is looking to bring in a new approach to the company’s IT strategy Continue Reading
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News
12 Dec 2012
Data to grow more quickly says IDC’s Digital Universe study
IDC’s annual Digital Universe study finds data set to expand to 40 Zettabytes by 2020. Emerging markets and machine-generated data will account for increasing proportions of it. Continue Reading
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News
10 Dec 2012
Big data analytics set to confound conventional adoption curve in UK
Big data and analytics companies predict increased adoption in the UK. MapR, Cloudera, ParAccel and Pentaho sketch out the adoption curve Continue Reading
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Photo Story
30 Nov 2012
Scrum methodology FAQ for Indian professionals
An agile software development methodology, SCRUM has become popular in India over the last few years. Get all your Scrum-related queries answered here. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Nov 2012
BI catch phrases you'll hear in 2013
TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson lists six slogans that he says BI, analytics and data warehousing professionals are likely to encounter in 2013. Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Nov 2012
Tripartite structure best on BI 'center of excellence'
There are no rules on how to set up a business intelligence center of excellence, says TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson. But most of the ones he sees include executive, business and technical teams. Continue Reading
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Feature
14 Nov 2012
How to gather BI dashboard user requirements to nail business strategy alignment
Many analytical systems -- data warehouses, business intelligence systems -- fail because user requirements are not collected properly Continue Reading
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News
12 Nov 2012
Royal Free Hospital uses SAP BusinessObjects dashboards to fathom data
The Royal Free Hospital has implemented SAP’s Business Objects dashboard technology to fathom complex data more efficiently Continue Reading
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News
09 Nov 2012
German retailer Otto invests in neural software to net future sales
German retail giant Otto improves demand forecasting with neural network technology from Blue Yonder, a predictive analytics start-up Continue Reading
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Photo Story
07 Nov 2012
Scenes from EMC Momentum Vienna 2012
EMC Momentum took place in Vienna this year, at the Messe Wien Congress Centre. 1,100 EMC attendees descended on the conference for hands-on-labs and a selection of sessions. View photos from the event here. Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Nov 2012
Unilever enterprise data warehouse locked to business programmes
Unilever is building a global enterprise data warehouse (EDW) locked into the critical paths of high-profile business programmes. Continue Reading
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News
01 Nov 2012
West Midlands Police develops golden view of criminals, suspects
West Midlands Police, the second largest force in the UK, seeks to reduce risk to its officers and the public by using DataFlux software that gives a master record for criminals and suspects. Continue Reading
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News
30 Oct 2012
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. Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2012
Analytics, Decision Making & Teams That Do It Right
Experts advise how to make the most of analytics in this report from SAS and the Harvard Business Review. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Oct 2012
CW500: Managing the mobile workforce (part 1)
Mobile working has transformed Colt Telecommunications beyond recognition over the past three years Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Oct 2012
How to manage unstructured data for business benefit
The cloud offers some progress in the resource-sapping management of unstructured data, but it is critical to work back from the business case. Continue Reading
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News
04 Oct 2012
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 Continue Reading
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News
18 Sep 2012
Big data: Lessons from the leaders
This research from the Economist Intelligence Unit assess how far companies have progressed in their use of big data and examines how they can turn it to business advantage. Continue Reading
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News
24 Aug 2012
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. Continue Reading
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News
30 Jul 2012
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. Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Jul 2012
Predictive sports analytics put in play for Wimbledon, Formula One
Predictive analytics in sports is proving itself in tennis and car racing. Can it make the leap to team sports, long the preserve of barroom anoraks? Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Jul 2012
Data virtualisation on rise as ETL alternative for data integration
The Phone House and Novartis have turned to data virtualisation from Denodo and Composite to gain a single logical view of disparate data sources. Continue Reading
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News
06 Jul 2012
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. Continue Reading
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Tip
21 Jun 2012
BI platform standardization: Step-by-step approach
BI platform standardization is the key to improved data management and clarity on the cost per report. Follow these steps to standardize your BI with ease. Continue Reading
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News
25 May 2012
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. Continue Reading
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News
25 May 2012
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. Continue Reading
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Feature
23 Apr 2012
Making money from data: Financial business intelligence at work
Finance professionals are heavy users of BI and predictive analytics software. Find out how a variety of European finance functionaries are analysing trends, cutting costs and finding new business. Continue Reading
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News
11 Apr 2012
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. Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2012
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. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
21 Mar 2012
India CIO Salary and Career Survey 2012
Get an insight into the expectations of CIO for 2012 in the India CIO Salary and Career Survey 2012. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
21 Mar 2012
BI Masterminds, 2012
SearchBusinessIntelligence.in presents the winners of India’s only independent business intelligence excellence awards, BI Masterminds, 2012. Continue Reading
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News
23 Feb 2012
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. Continue Reading
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News
23 Jan 2012
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. Continue Reading
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News
11 Jan 2012
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. Continue Reading
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News
11 Jan 2012
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. Continue Reading
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News
12 Dec 2011
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. Continue Reading
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05 Dec 2011
'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. Continue Reading
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News
30 Nov 2011
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. Continue Reading
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News
17 Nov 2011
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.” Continue Reading
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News
10 Nov 2011
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. Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Nov 2011
Improved debt collection with BI: An ICICI Bank story
Debt collection can gain immensely by BI. By powering this, ICICI Bank has effectively turned debt collection into a customer-relations management program. Continue Reading
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Tip
14 Oct 2011
Integrate your CRM application with BI for maximum benefit
Your CRM application need not stop after its growth after rollout. Integration with BI can helps organizations get the most from any CRM application. Continue Reading
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News
10 Oct 2011
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. Continue Reading
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News
14 Sep 2011
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? Continue Reading
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Tip
24 Aug 2011
Big data analytics made easy with SQL and MapReduce
With growth in unstructured big data, RDBMS is inadequate for big data analytics. Know how to use SQL and MapReduce for big data analytics, instead. Continue Reading
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News
03 Aug 2011
Round table: the value of big data
Learn what our round table of experts thinks of the value and significance of “big data.” Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Jul 2011
IT in Europe e-zine: Data Management & BI Edition
The benefits of effective data management and business intelligence are many; so are the challenges. Get practical information and advice on data management & BI strategies in the IT in Europe ezine. Continue Reading
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News
06 Jul 2011
Predictive analytics, data visualisation, player tracking at play at Wimbledon
IBM provided predictive analytics, player tracking and data visualisation at Wimbledon. Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2011
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. Continue Reading
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Tip
15 Jun 2011
Business intelligence center of excellence (BI CoE): A handy reference
To extract maximum benefit from a BI solution, setting up a BI center of excellence (BI CoE) is essential. Here’s how you should go about it. Continue Reading
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News
01 Jun 2011
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. Continue Reading
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News
05 Apr 2011
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. Continue Reading
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News
22 Mar 2011
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. Continue Reading
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25 Feb 2011
Business intelligence implementation best practices
Business intelligence implementations are riddled with challenges. Use these best practices to make your business intelligence implementations successful. Continue Reading
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News
25 Jan 2011
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. Continue Reading