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Why inventory optimisation is crucial for retailers

Aneshan Ramaloo11 December 2018 0

Why inventory optimisation is crucial for retailers

Retailers around the globe struggle to accurately forecast demand and, more importantly, optimise inventory levels. Consequently, this has a massive effect on bottom-line profitability. My last blog post focused specifically on the problem of “getting the size mix right” that retailers face and how advanced analytical techniques can provide a

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Retail

Analytics

Does your choice of programming language matter?

Paul Gittins6 December 2018 0

Does your choice of coding language matter?

I can still remember the emergence in the 1990s of Java as a universal and largely open-sourced programming language. Some observers believed it would signal the eventual demise of proprietary languages such as C, Fortran and Cobol. Current surveys, however, and there are many, confirm that plenty of people continue

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The Analytics Platform seen through Enterprise Architecture

James Ochiai-Brown5 December 2018 2

The Analytics Platform seen through Enterprise Architecture

Analytics is on every agenda – including Enterprise Architecture Data analytics and AI is now on the agenda of every organisation. After years of being the back-room preserve of analysts, it is now out in the open, in the boardroom and being proclaimed as central to business strategy and transformation.

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Vijayne Govender4 December 2018 0

The customer intelligence collection

If you want to get to grips with the topic of customer intelligence, who better to ask than David Cosgrave, who leads the SAS® Customer Intelligence team in South EMEA? Over the last few years, David has written a number of articles, and contributed to several others, on the subject

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Communications | Government | Retail

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Data Preparation in the Analytical Life Cycle

Ivor G. Moan3 December 2018 0

Understanding Data Preparation in the Analytics Life Cycle

What is Data Preparation and why does it matter? Data preparation is all the tasks involved in collecting, processing, and cleansing data for use in analytics and business intelligence. It therefore includes accessing, loading, structuring, purging, unifying (joining), adjusting data types, checking fields to see that only valid values are

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Analytics

Paul Ridge3 December 2018 0

Customer-centricity and the current loyalty paradox

Does loyalty pay in business? Most of us, if asked, would probably say that it ought to do so. Fairness suggests that there should be an element of “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.” In other words, if I remain your customer, you will look out for my interests;

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Insurance

Analytics

Tonia Calvio28 November 2018 0

Come incrementare le potenzialità delle risorse umane grazie a People Analytics

La prova definitiva per poter definire una tecnologia “mainstream” consiste nel verificare che essa venga ampiamente utilizzata in tutta l'azienda, dalle funzioni a servizio del cliente alle attività di back-office. Gli analytics sono stati a lungo incentrati sul cliente ed ampiamente utilizzati anche per le prestazioni individuali, ad esempio, dalle

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Analytics

Process improvements in insurance are boring – or are they?

Michael Rabin20 November 2018 1

Process improvements in insurance are boring – or are they?

If we look at digitisation projects among insurance companies, the majority are essentially process improvements and cost savings. Processes and costs. These are not exactly “modern” terms. They are more or less precisely the opposite of the usual buzzwords and statements about digitisation and innovation. Does that make them boring

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Insurance

Analytics

Why personalising the student experience is critical to higher education’s viability

Harry Clarke14 November 2018 0

Why personalising the student experience is critical to higher education’s viability

Over the last few months there have been two disparate themes in my conversations with higher education institutions. The first has been the pervasive and ambitious plans for growth throughout the sector, and the second has been concern over increased competition for students and resources. At first glance, these seem

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Education

Analytics

The Relationship Between Insurance Companies and Insurtech

Michael Rabin14 November 2018 0

It’s Complicated: The Competitive, Coexisting and Cooperative Relationships Between Insurance Companies and Insurtechs

The insurance industry is one of the late starters in terms of digitisation, even in customer service, where digital networking has literally been imposed. This is largely the result of company size and the associated deadlocked structures, plus legacy systems and processes. These make it difficult to react spontaneously to

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Insurance

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