Business intelligence and analytics

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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• Lindsay Clark

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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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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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• Lindsay Clark

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

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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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

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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• Stephen Pritchard

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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• Brian McKenna

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

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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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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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• Gareth Morgan, Contributor

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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• Gareth Morgan, Contributor

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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• Mitchelle R. Jansen, TechTarget

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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• Srinivasan Rengarajan

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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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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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• Lindsay Clark

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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• Kristina West, Contributor

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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• Lindsay Clark

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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• Mark Brunelli

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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• SearchCIO.IN Staff

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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• Sharon D'Souza, Reporter

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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• Lindsay Clark

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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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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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• Sharon D’Souza, Reporter

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, Enterprise Applications Editor

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, Enterprise Applications Editor

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, Enterprise Applications Editor

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, Enterprise Applications Editor

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, Enterprise Applications Editor

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, Enterprise Applications Editor

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, Enterprise Applications Editor

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, Enterprise Applications Editor

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, Enterprise Applications Editor

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