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Die Kosten drücken auf die Gewinnmarge der Banken. In der aktuellen Niedrigzinsphase ist dies besonders schmerzhaft. Neue Wettbewerber, aber auch das veränderte Kundenverhalten zwingen Banken zusätzlich zum Handeln. Daraus ergeben sich mindestens zwei Ansatzpunkte zur Optimierung durch Digitalisierung: Die bestehenden Prozesse in der Kreditvergabe und -verwaltung müssen schlanker werden, die
With the US Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other health topics in the news lately, I wondered how much people spend on healthcare in various countries. Of course spending varies from person to person, so I decided to take a look at the average per capita spending in each country (it's
Open. The very word evokes a sense of happiness and possibility. When you’re hungry at an odd hour and everything around you seems to be closed, that lone neon sign glowing in a restaurant window is a most welcome relief. When a shop or service you’ve longed for finally builds
In Part 1 of this series, we defined data governance as a framework – something an organization can implement in small pieces. Data management encompasses the disciplines included in the data governance framework. They include the following: Data quality and data profiling. Metadata (business, technical and operational). Data security. Data movement within the enterprise.
Is Complexity Bad? It’s necessary to point out that Goodwin’s article is not arguing against complexity per se, and I’m not either. When you have a high value forecast, where it is critical to be as accurate as possible, of course you are going to want to try every technique
Die aktuelle BARC-Studie verrät die Sicht der Unternehmen auf modernes Datenmanagement mittels Hadoop und Data-Lake-Konzepten. Die Anwenderbefragung gibt einen interessanten Blick auf den derzeitigen Status von Hadoop und Data Lakes in Europa und Nordamerika. Wo wird das Ecosystem eingesetzt, was ist der erhoffte Nutzen, und wo sind die Grenzen, um
SAS programmers often resort to using the X command to list the contents of file directories and to process the contents of ZIP files. In centralized SAS environments, the X command is unavailable to most programmers. NOXCMD is the default setting for these environments (disallowing shell commands), and SAS admins
Anomalies: The Beginning of a Crisis While even trained scientists can fail to see things that fall outside what they are looking for, anomalies eventually start to get noticed. But still, for a long time, anomalies within an existing paradigm are seen as mere “violations of expectation.” The response within
Today’s IT department isn’t your grandfather’s IT department. It’s not even your father’s IT department. When people talk about Information Technology Departments of the past, it's usually broken into three distinct periods: The Mainframe; PCs; the Internet/post PC. The IT department was seen as the hardware support arm of an
Stretches the hips, ankles and shoulders while opening chest and lengthening spine. Cow Face Pose (Sanskrit: Gomukhasana)
.@philsmion says that even the "best governed" organization today isn't safe from inquiring minds.
Das ist der dritte Beitrag zur Blog-Serie Big Data Governance. Bisher sind erschienen Wie Big Data Unternehmen durcheinanderwirbelt und Mit Data Governance gegen den Datensumpf. Zum Abschluss möchte ich 5 Tipps abgeben, die ich selbst von Pionieren in Sachen Big Data übernommen habe. Meine erste Empfehlung lautet, Data Governance bereits zu Beginn der
In 15 Monaten tritt die EU-Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR) in Kraft. Nicht nur Unternehmen mit Sitz in der Europäischen Union bereiten sich darauf vor, sondern auch Firmen mit Sitz im Ausland sind betroffen, die personenbezogene Daten von europäischen Bürgern nutzen. Welchen Einfluss hat GDPR auf Analytics und Datenmanagement?
The Current Paradigm for Business Forecasting So what is the current paradigm that we, the community of business forecasting practitioners and researchers, are operating under? I’d argue that for at least the last 60 years, since 1956 when Robert G. Brown published his short monograph Exponential Smoothing for Predicting Demand,
Could you imagine running a business with a 35-90% annual turnover rate? What if the average time to fill a position was anywhere between 3-12 months? This alone would cripple most organizations, but is a common reality in state and local child welfare agencies. High turnover and vacancy rates are