Business intelligence and analytics

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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• Nicole Laskowski, Senior News Director

'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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• Mark Whitehorn, University of Dundee

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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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

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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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

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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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

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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• Sharon D'Souza, Reporter

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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• Rajendra C Mruthyunjayappa

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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• Sharon D'Souza, Reporter

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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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

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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• Siddharth Mehta, Contributor

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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• SearchDataManagement.co.UK Round table

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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• SearchDataManagement.co.UK staff

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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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

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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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

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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• Naren N.S.

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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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

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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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

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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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

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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• SearchBusinessIntelligence.IN Staff

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

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• Brian McKenna, Site and News Editor