Advanced Analytics to Detect Pipe Breakages – our Water Utility case study
This water utility provides water and wastewater services to the state’s 1.75 million residents. This involves the maintenance of a vast range of vital assets. Like many organisations managing assets, this utility has begun focusing itself more towards preventative maintenance rather than responsive maintenance: predicting where maintenance is needed and addressing that need before it […]
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A Modern Data Analytics and User Engagement Platform – our South Australian Local Council case study
Find out how we enabled this South Australian Local Council to help achieve its strategic objective and move closer towards becoming a smart city by designing and delivering a Modern Data Analytics and User Engagement Platform, which provides rapid and reliable analytics along with the ability to add new analytics workloads swiftly and securely. Read our case study here.
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Maintenance and Auditing Solution – our SA Government case study
This solution allows the government agency to better track subcontractor maintenance patterns and allows for better identification of cost-saving measures, potential overcharges or unusual transactions. Read the case study here
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Smart Wastewater network – our SA Water case study
This solution enables greater customer service through better management of the wastewater assets through an industry-leading smart wastewater network management solution. It incorporates a leading edge architecture built on the Azure platform using key technologies including Databricks, IoT, Stream Analytics, App Service, and more. Read our case study here: Smart Wastewater network – our SA Water […]
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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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Branch locations and success criteria using predictive analytics – our Agribusiness case study
Exposé designed and developed a solution that uncovered whether there were strong relationships between known characteristics of branches and their success in order to determine new locations to be considered and the services they will offer. See our case study here: exposé case study – Agribusiness – Branch locations and success criteria using predictive analytics
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Blockchain in bits – A technical insight
In our previous two articles, we articulated several real-life use cases for Blockchain implementations, and we have also elaborated conceptually how Blockchain differs from current/previous data storage architecture as well as other conceptual benefits of Blockchain as a platform. In this article, we touch upon the technical components of Blockchain networks and Smart Contracts, and […]
Read MoreBlockchain, lifting the lid on confusing concepts
In the previous article An Internet of Value – Blockchain, beyond the hype and why CxO’s must take note, we articulated why blockchain is more than just hype and provided some real-life use cases as to where/how blockchain is already helping businesses. But we want to dig deeper within this article, the second in a series […]
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Water Consumption Demand Prediction – our SA Water case study
This case study shows how we replaced a global pipeline prediction system with a predictive solution based on Azure Machine Learning. Water consumption demand prediction is now highly accurate and it provides a much higher degree of flexibility and cost savings to SA Water. Read our case study here: exposé case study – SAWater Predictive
Read MoreAn Internet of Value – Blockchain, beyond the hype and why CxO’s must take note
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen A Blockchain, in its simplest form, is a distributed database system where there is no one master (primary) database, but many databases that are all considered primary. All parties participate in populating entries into the respective databases and receive the entries of the other participants. But how does this apply to your […]
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ETL as a Service – Lifting & Shifting your existing SSIS ETL to Azure
Author: Jake Deed Why a trend towards PaaS over IaaS ETL and how this relates to SSIS Businesses are moving more towards environments where infrastructure is invisible to the business; where Platforms as a Service (PaaS) are developed, deployed and managed in the cloud to reduce operational infrastructure overhead costs as well as increase the […]
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Chatbots – how the Azure bot framework is changing the AI game
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen What are Chatbots? Communication underpins intelligence. And language underpins communication. But language is complex and must be understood through the prism of intent and understanding. For example: Take the term, “thong” – in Australian slang this means flip-flops, a meaning lost on someone not familiar with Australian slang, as it means underwear […]
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