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Business intelligence and analytics

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  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

• April 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  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

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  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

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  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.

• March 22, 2013 22 Mar'13

  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

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  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

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  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

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  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.

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  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

• February 05, 2013 05 Feb'13

  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

• February 01, 2013 01 Feb'13

  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

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  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

• January 11, 2013 11 Jan'13

  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

• January 09, 2013 09 Jan'13

  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

• December 14, 2012 14 Dec'12

  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

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  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.

• December 10, 2012 10 Dec'12

  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

• November 12, 2012 12 Nov'12

  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

• November 09, 2012 09 Nov'12

  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

• November 01, 2012 01 Nov'12

  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.

• 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.