This post is one in our “Market Advantage through Technology” series, where we look at a specific problem within an organization or industry, and show how technology is used to not only solve it, but provide solid competitive edge. These posts are designed to provide real-world examples of digital transformation, demonstrate the power of digital solutions, and get you thinking ...

Across industries, companies understand that technology is now crucial to their success, as well as a key driver of competitive edge. Innovation strategies and digital implementations feature heavily in many internal discussions, often accompanied by the fear of being left behind. At the same time, it isn’t easy to know where to start, and moving forward can provoke as much anx ...

Organizations that have been around since the pre-digital era face the same general technology dilemma: They know it’s important to have resilient and evolving IT, but they’re hesitant to scrap valuable legacy systems.   On one hand, business leaders recognize that organizational survival depends on IT agility. According to a recent Accenture survey, 75% of C-suite executives b ...

Imagine this all-too-common scenario: Your company has recently pulled the trigger on a data project. Excitement is in the air. You’re finally doing something about all the data you’ve been collecting. You’re getting answers that will make your organization stronger. You’re going to leave the competition in the dust. Then your first reports and visualizations arrive. And they a ...

We are living in truly exciting times. Companies have more opportunities than ever before to use technology to massively improve organizational performance, productivity, and profit, and to launch themselves into new, previously inaccessible markets. Every day we hear stories of established businesses that have used technology to create unparalleled corporate advantage, or tech ...

You may be surprised by the long list of very specific questions the right BI strategies can answer. Some of these discoveries result in small business adjustments; some in huge shifts. They all add up to improved organizational insight and increased bottom line.

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Today our topic is practical. You could use the results immediately. At least ... If you like wine. Some of our readers may have read the book Supercrunchers by Ian Ayres, with the promising subtitle 'How anything can be predicted'. Sounds good, right? Number Cruncher or statistician? The book starts like this: "Orley Ashenfelter really loves wine: 'when a good red wine ages, ' ...

In our previous blog we explored the concept of Big Data, briefly discussed the phases in a Big Data solution, and how you can advise your customer with the so-called association algorithm about the next product he or she might want to purchase. In this blog post I will briefly discuss different types of Big Data algorithms and machine learning models. And for whom models and a ...

  Big Data is going to change our lives. But how exactly? That remains difficult to answer. However, to get a bit closer to an answer, we are going to share our experiences in this blog. Sometimes very practical, sometimes a bit more theoretical; sometimes from a technical point of view, sometimes from a business perspective. But of course we start ... at the beginning.  Many r ...