Nov 19, 2013
Forrester Research first coined the phrase “big data process” in August 2011 to describe the shift from a fragmented, silo approach to business process management (BPM) to a more holistic approach that stitches all the pieces of a process together, across...
Nov 18, 2013
Effective use of data, and predictive analytics, can give businesses a strong competitive advantage, SAS has told the business community in Kenya. Speaking at a SAS Integrated Marketing Management forum hosted recently in Nairobi, SAS experts highlighted numerous ways...
Nov 4, 2013
When it comes to corporate real estate (CRES) and property management, there is one all-important question that the property manager needs to answer – how much does it cost to run each building? This seemingly simple question is often difficult to answer, for a number...
Oct 31, 2013
QlikView has announced that one of the largest homebuilders in the UK, Taylor Wimpey, has selected the QlikView Business Discovery platform for sales, land, commercial, and financial performance analysis. Formed by the merger of George Wimpey and Taylor Woodrow,...
Oct 30, 2013
Many organisations spend millions on their enterprise resource planning (ERP) and transactional processing systems in order to streamline efficiencies and break down silos within the company, says David McWilliam, director at Cortell Corporate Performance Management....
Oct 25, 2013
A client recently complained that he was struggling with a reporting requirement because his technology platform could not cope with big data. Upon investigation it was found that he was dealing with approximately 20 million rows from a relatively small table, says...
