Higher Education – Student Attrition
The Problem An education provider based in South Australia receives government funds that are measured upon when students complete identified courses. They had identified that there were critical points within the student engagement with the organisation where there was a high attrition rate. This ultimately resulted in missed revenue opportunities for the organisation. The […]
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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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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 […]
Read MoreDigital 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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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 […]
Read MoreDatabricks: 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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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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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
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Internet of Mice
The Internet of Mice – Our IoT and Advanced Analytics Solution Understanding how animals involved in research move and eliminating as much human handling as possible makes for a much more humane environment for the animals. The outcome is more accurate results for the researchers. See how our IoT and Advanced Analytics solution developed for […]
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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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Get more from your Retail data with Predictive Analytics
This case study showcases our solution that allows Sales and Marketing to match customers to the products they are most likely to buy using retail data and predictive analytics. This case study is just as relevant today as it was just shy of one year ago when we created it. Combining this solution with Cognitive […]
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