The Purple Peeps Seven Favourites from Ignite 2021
What a wonderful couple of days at Ignite! It’s fascinating to hear all these exciting announcements and top tips from experts globally. One of the best things about being a Microsoft Partner is the access to the technologies, products and tech community, and all these together, empower us to drive impact so we can accelerate […]
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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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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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Power BI Report Server – A Quick Walk Through
Just about any implementation of a reporting environment within an organisation will have different styles of reports for different purposes. These reports may be operational\paginated, self-service using Excel, and\or highly interactive and user-friendly Power BI reports. The central question then beckons, how do all our users access these reports within one location which is easily […]
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Game changing – see how Power BI models become Azure Analysis Services models
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Businesses are increasingly embracing an empowered regime when it comes to data analytics and business intelligence. Subject matter experts inside business units are increasingly at the forefront of the creation of data models on which reports and dashboards rely. Various technologies (such as Tableau, Qlik and Power BI), now facilitate user-access to […]
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Employee Expenses Reporting Platform – our South Australian Government case study
A solution to provide a regular view of Employee Expenses against budgets. Our solution overcomes a lack of capacity and flexibility in the incumbent Human Resources system. See our case study on the solution that combines data from disparate systems, presenting it to the business in an easy to consume format, allowing the business to […]
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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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Financial forecasting, reporting and commentary at scale – LSA Synergy Case Study
Synergy gave LSA (Lifetime Support Authority) financial forecasting, reporting, commentary and interactive analysis at scale. This translated to astounding business benefits such as: Effective low latent financial reporting Lesser reliance on IT to manage reporting structure Saved huge reporting and analysis effort Commentary to contextualize data that follow the analysis for life Auditing and workflow Etc. […]
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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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Can you predict if a student will drop out? Yes!
Our case study on a Higher Education Institution and the 360-degree student attrition solution we designed and developed. An intelligent way to understand attrition in the past, and using that to predict attrition in the future. It allows the institution to foster relationships, at-risk students, before the event, ultimately decreasing attrition and avoiding revenue leakage. […]
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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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