Cognitive Intelligence meets Advanced Analytics
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Acquiring knowledge of anonymous customers through Cognitive Intelligence is the next generation customer based Business Intelligence. Human behavior and characteristics such as speech, demographics, and emotion can now be expressed digitally and blended that with Advanced Analytics. Exposé apply this across a number of different use cases as shown in the video. […]
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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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Test drive AWS QuickSight
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen As part of our commitment to deliver the best possible business outcome for our Advanced Analytics customers, we ensure that we remain across the technologies that enable us to deliver such outcomes. This test drive of AWS’ QuickSight BI tool and its underlying parallel processing engine (SPICE) is part of that commitment to […]
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A story is worth a thousand visuals
Any report can contain information. It’s relatively easy to just place random visualisations together to display information from a multitude of data sources. But without context or structure does this add any value or provide a better experience for the report reader?
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Colouring with numbers – Can data present a better picture?
With the rise of self-service reporting, is just presenting the data enough? Or is how information is presented just as impactful as to what is being presented?
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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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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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Strategic Segmentation
Preface Market segmentation is a common practice in marketing and sales in order to better understand – and therefore be better able to target – customers. This same principle, though, can be applied to any business problem where the division of a diverse population into sub-populations based on similarities (or differences) would be advantageous. Fortunately, […]
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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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