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Top Business Intelligence Predictions

Posted on February 3, 2012 – 10:53 am

From Big Data to the cloud, many are wondering what will shape the business intelligence market in 2012. Fight for the Right to BI Users will continue to fight for their right to business intelligence in the coming year. More data analysis tools will move into the hands of end users. IT will learn not [...]

2012 Budgets favor BI Projects

Posted on December 12, 2011 – 11:15 am

The CIO Executive Board of The Corporate Executive Board Co. (CEB) recently released its 2011-2012 IT Budget Benchmark. In 2011, the majority of projects were in the area of information management, rather than process automation — a trend that is predicted to accelerate in the coming year, even as budgets decrease. More and more workers [...]

Analytics Exposes Poor Performers

Posted on November 19, 2011 – 9:38 am

Companies increased use of data analytics will democratise access to data by allowing consumers to see which companies are performing well, changing the way shoppers buy. Gartner recent  prediction that 33% of business intelligence would be consumed by mobile devices by 2013 was woefully underestimated, arguing that it would be at least 66% by 2013. [...]

Data Analytics Q&A

Posted on October 17, 2011 – 9:17 am

Public sector bodies must fully understand the difference between “analysis” and “analytics”. Analysis tends to be characterised by individuals gathering some data, exporting it into a spreadsheet, calculating a number of options and making recommendations. Analytics on the other hand is characterised by examining  patterns and correlations in the underlying data and from this project future [...]