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Hidden Insights: Agile to active: The path from open source to open scalability

Biagio Grasso10 January 2019 0

Agile and active: scaling open source in the enterprise

For many organisations, open source supports the rapid and agile development of projects and models. New projects enable significant success with fast deployment of analytics projects, and also – importantly – supports a failing fast strategy without having to incur significant infrastructure costs. Deploying open source at the enterprise level

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Andy Davies12 December 2018 0

Analytics in policing: it starts with data

In my first post I looked at the role of analytics in policing and how analytics could and should be used to benefit modern policing. However, a key point that can be forgotten is analytics is only as good as the data it is based on. It’s vital to have

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Government

Analytics

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

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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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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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