Transforming the business into a data centric organisation through an Advanced Analytics and Big Data solution – our ACH Group case study

An Advanced Analytics and Big Data solution allows for the acquisition, aggregation and blending of large volumes of data often derived from multiple disparate sources. Incorporating IoT, smart devices and predictive analytics into the solution. Our ACH Group case study shows how a clever data platform architecture and design facilitates transformation into a data-centric organisation […]

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Transmissions Dashboard – our Energy Infrastructure Provider case study

This Transmissions Dashboard solution we designed and developed for this national Energy Infrastructure Provider involved both a data platform and analytical dashboards. It reduced reporting turnaround potential by over 1000%, allowing staff to focus on business-critical tasks. It embedded a trusted source of truth and quality and consistency of analysis. It improved analytical agility and timely […]

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Better Client Care with IoT – Our Eldercare Case Study

Utilising Internet-connected devices and real-time Advanced Analytics, we created a solution that provides better client care, a reduction in cost, time and potential health risks. The solution helps the organisation overcome customer wellbeing challenges. Medication and Food must be kept at constant temperatures. This clever solution uses Azure IoT Suite and Cortana Intelligence Suit of […]

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We test drive Azure Time Series Insights

Author: Etienne Oosthuysen In this video, we take Azure Time Series Insights for a test drive. It is the new “fully managed analytics, storage, and visualization service that makes it simple to explore and analyse billions of IoT events simultaneously”. We also importantly look at the differences between Power BI’s real-time visualisation capabilities and Azure […]

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We test drive Azure Analysis Services – the good, and the not so good.

Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Microsoft’s announcement of the release of Azure Analysis Services for SSAS Tabular solutions as a PaaS solution has come at just the right time. In the modern world of Advanced Analytics, Semantic Models rather than data warehouses will increasingly play the core role in corporate data landscapes – they are places where […]

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From operational challenges to a modern, automated and simplified organisation – Our Business SA case study

An Exposé case study around our advanced analytics solution for the ‘voice of business in South Australia’,  Business SA. The solution was an important component of a large digital transformation program that saw Business SA transition to a modern, automated and simplified organization which was underpinned by the following technology changes; • A cloud-first strategy which […]

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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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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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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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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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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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