Digital Twin – Topical use cases

Being left behind in an increasingly digital world is a scary thought.  Gartner predicts that this year alone, organisations with digital trustworthiness will have a substantial advantage (of up to 20% increased revenue in online channels) compared to their competitors.  In our previous article, Digital Twins – Why all the fuss, we introduced the concept […]

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Digital Twins – Why all the fuss?

Author: Etienne Oosthuysen What do Twins, NASA, Pokémon Go, the Internet of Things, Big Data and business value have in common? As our landscape changes to embrace digital integration, the physical and virtual worlds are moving closer together than ever before. As flagged by Gartner, digital twins are pegged to be a key strategic technology […]

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The STEM gender gap and how we can lead the way for the next generation

Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Authored by Emma Girvan and Sandra Raznjevic In our continued partnership with St. Peter’s Collegiate Girls’ School, we were honoured to be invited to attend the inaugural Women in STEM Breakfast on Thursday 23 May, which was hosted by Year 10-12 students. This fantastic event included over 30 female industry professionals who […]

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Exposé – the 2019 Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year, runner up in the category of Power BI

We are delighted to announce that Exposé has been named as the runner up for the 2019 Microsoft Global Partner of the year award in the category Power BI. We’re proud to add this global award to our two previous Microsoft Australian Partner Awards in 2016 and 2017. This achievement is no small feat given […]

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Say that Again? Power BI Commentary extends to Reports

Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Power BI recently announced the extension of  its commentary capability to Power BI reports. Yes, you can now add comments to both report pages or specific visuals to improve your data discussions! These conversations are automatically bookmarked, so the report context is retained exactly as the comment was written, complete with the […]

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Databricks: distilling Information from Data

Author: Rory Tarnow-Mordi In the first of this series of articles on Databricks, we looked at how Databricks works and the general benefits it brings to organisations ready to do more with their data assets. In this post we build upon this theme in the advanced analytics space. We will also walk through  an interesting […]

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Databricks: beyond the guff, business benefits and why businesses should care. Here’s a cheat-sheet to get you started

Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Search for info on Azure Databricks and you’ll likely hear it described along the lines of “a managed Apache Spark platform that brings together data science, data engineering, and data analysis on the Azure platform”. The finer nuances and, importantly, information about the business benefits of this platform can be trickier to […]

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Young, female and paving the way for technology in South Australia

We recently joined forces with St. Peter’s Girls’ Collegiate School, facilitating an 8-week data and analytics project for Year 11 students.  This exercise provided the girls with real-world skills development but most importantly, opened their eyes to what a career in IT can look like, dispelling some of the misconceptions in the process. View the […]

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Gov Hack 2018 – Our Winning Emergency Response Exposed

Author: Etienne Oosthuysen This year we got a team together and entered the 2018 Gov Hack competition.  Over the course of 46 hours, we built a solution that brings together fragmented datasets, some of which are listed below, in an Emergency Response solution, adhering to the spirit of Gov Hack by showing the power of […]

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Artificial Intelligence in Aged Care – June’s story

Meet June; long time Adelaidean, keen gardener and grandmother of twelve!  At 86 years ‘young’, June moved from her own home into a local aged care facility following a series of falls that saw her hospitalised over the summer.  June was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease 18 months ago and following an increasing number of falls, […]

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Artificial Intelligence and Occupational Health and Safety – AI an enabler or a threat

Author: Etienne Oosthuysen We increasingly hear statements like, “machines are smarter than us” and “they will take over our jobs”. The fact of the matter is that computers can simply compute faster, and more accurately than humans can. So, in the short video below, we instead focus on how machines can be used to assist […]

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Tableau Prep – we test drive this new user-centred data preparation tool

Data preparation is undoubtedly one of the most competency-reliant and time-consuming parts of report generation. For this reason, it is fast becoming the new focal area for further development and we are seeing a large uptick in the number of options being made available to help alleviate these issues. One recent entrant to this space […]

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