Financial firms need big data strategies

The majority of capital markets firms do not have big data strategies in place even though some are investing in big data for specific functional areas, says Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge Integration Dynamics. Those investments to date have typically focused on...

Companies should leverage speech analytics

Speech analytics delivers priceless customer information. The technology has been around for some time, yet is now gaining greater status in the contact centre due to smarter apps being developed in response to other current and major IT trends, in particular big...

Yellowfin 7.1 analytics platform launches

Global business intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has launched the latest version of its BI platform, Yellowfin 7.1. Enhancements in Yellowfin 7.1 concentrated on extending three core technical areas, by boosting Location Intelligence...

Change business with operational analytics

As big data analytics moves beyond a buzzword in marketing circles, global enterprises are now also starting to see the potential value of turning analytics inward, to improve their own operations, says Ayanda Dlamini, business development manager at LGR. When...

Massive growth for business intelligence

The broader business intelligence market has seen a 50% growth rate to reach $60-billion – an amount that brings it on par with the electronic gaming industry. Within the more “traditional” definition of the market research industry, the global size...