Advanced Analytics and Big Data Platform – RAA Case Study

An Exposé case study around our advanced analytics and big data platform for RAA that allows for the acquisition and blending of large volumes of fragmented geospatial data, transforming it using massive processing capacity, using predictive analytics to assess the risk of millions of properties, and providing interactive and geospatial visualisations of the blended data and […]

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Disrupting the banking market

This video shows a comprehensive solution geared around disruption in the Banking market, from transactions through to advanced analytics. The viewer meets 3 different customers, their challenges and how the bank responds to them.

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From Reactive to Proactive with IoT in Manufacturing

A solution that helps the after market service department of a manufacturer responds to machine issues proactively rather than reactively.

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The battle of the AMLs – Amazon Machine Learning Vs Azure Machine Learning

As machine learning has become more accessible to businesses and the number of products currently available has risen in the market, the question is regularly asked of us as leaders in data and analytics to recommend, or at least provide insight, into some of those products.  Machine learning has become more accessible and there are […]

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From water cooler discussion to corporate Data Analytics in record time

Author: Etienne Oosthuysen For those who have been involved in conventional Business Intelligence projects, you will be all too familiar with the likely contiguous chain of events and the likely outcome. It typically goes something like this: The idea is incubated by someone (very often this would be within ICT), a business case for a […]

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Connecting to Big Data Clusters from Excel

Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Connecting to big data clusters from Excel is now relatively simple. But those who have tried would have noticed multiple ways to achieve what seems to be the same thing. This article aims to clear these muddy waters a bit. I am using Microsoft Office 365 Pro Plus (Excel 2013) updated to […]

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Power BI and Microsoft Azure – what’s all the fuss about?

Author: Etienne Oosthuysen This blog provides a journey starting with Excel and its promotion to BI, it moves on to Power BI version 2 and concludes with a much larger Azure analytical story. Let’s start this journey with some topical statistics. US$97bn the projected annual dollar spend on BI services by 2016. Good 19% the […]

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How to compete @ Adelaide Unleashed and succeed !

What follows is the sequence of events that led to our glorious wins @ Adelaide Unleashed 2015

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