Displaying items by tag: Data analysis

GUEST OPINION: Having access to large volumes of data delivers big benefits to a business. It supports informed strategic planning and guides everything from investments to customer service.

Veteran-founded organisation WithYouWithMe is allocating $10 million dollars of free digital skills training to Afghan refugees following the fall of Kabul.

The NSW Police Force is rolling out Azure cloud technology to further support the recent introduction of cognitive services including ethical artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to its Insights policing platform.

Leading life insurer uses Talend in data lake environment for data analytics

COMPANY NEWS: Talend (NASDAQ: TLND), a global leader in data integration and data integrity, announced today that Sumitomo Life Insurance Company, one of the Japan’s leading life insurance companies, has selected Talend Data Fabric for its data analytics infrastructure.

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Versor, one of Australia’s leading Advanced Data Analytics specialists, is excited to announce that they are the official Data Analytics Partner of Walkinshaw Andretti United Racing as part of the 2020 and 2021 V8 Supercars Series.

Elastic, the search and data analysis company behind the Elastic Stack, held a sold-out event at the Grand Ballroom of Sydney’s Hyatt Regency last week. Speakers from the company presented on topics such as Enterprise Search, SIEM and capturing unstructured data.

Global ICT solutions and services provider Dimension Data has partnered with Western Sydney University to create a new data services platform comprising an ecosystem for data collection and secure computation, and expanding the capabilities of research and data analysis.

In the age of Big Data, the rule seems to be “Collect everything now, figure out what to do with it later”. Unfortunately, this is often a costly mistake. Cloud storage is getting cheaper by the day – so you certainly can do it – but the real question is why should you do it?

By kyeling, December 18, 2017

The Commonwealth Bank has launched a new business analytics platform which it says will allow small- to medium-sized businesses to monitor their business performance in real-time and to model future scenarios based on a range of current financial and industry data.

Australian small businesses are using data and technology to prepare for the Christmas rush “in ways they never could before”, according to cloud accounting provider Xero.

The Red Bull Formula One racing team has chosen Australian hyperconverged infrastructure provider SimpliVity to refresh its virtualised IT infrastructure on and off the track.

Australia’s chief financial officers expect there will be an increasing need for digital investment within the finance function, with the top three areas for investment to be data analysis, compliance and regulation and fraud detection/risk management.

Mobile in all its forms is the place to be if you are seeking a job and career in an industry sector which is growing rapidly and needs employees with the appropriate tech skills to drive that growth.

Melbourne has been selected as one of 16 cities chosen for the IBM Smarter Cities Challenge Grant out of more than 100 international cities to apply.

Werkspot, Amsterdam’s number one online platform for the home services market throughout the Netherlands, has deployed analytics software from Australian Business Intelligence provider Yellowfin.

Australian organisations, like their counterparts around the globe, can’t get enough analytics professionals despite a growing demand for their services in business and government.

SAS has secured a contract in Ireland to provide its data management and reporting technology to assist financial services and fund management firm Aegon with its data analysis and, at the same time, satisfy industry regulatory requirements.

Enterprises have been urged to treat data as an organisational asset if they want to ‘survive and thrive’ in today’s business climate, and to increasingly shift the basis of differentiation to focus on smarter and more efficient use of data.

Robin Bloor – author of a number of books like Cloud Computing for Dummies, Management for Dummies, Words You Don't Know, The Electronic Bazaar – and Chief Analyst and Co-founder of the Bloor Group, has just finished telling an Australian audience this week that Big Data is not much more than an “utterly meaningless” term created by marketers.

Enterprise tag management firm Tealium today announced it would be integrating its digital data solution and tag management software with Splunk Enterprise.