Understanding common data integration challenges
Working with a variety of organizations on consulting engagements and speaking with companies to learn more about their analytics initiatives, I have learned firsthand...
Healthcare analytics best practice scrum
Healthcare in Ontario received a shot in the arm this month when data specialists from hospitals across the southern region of the province met...
Vitamin Y: The app approach to building data service value
Context:
New York-based Information Builders has committed to expanding its presence in Canada through a mix of community building exercises. One approach that the long-time...
Today's Big Data deployments are missing the mark
President and founder of WiseAnalytics. Lyndsay Wise has a decade’s worth of IT experience, consulting with SMBs on business systems analysis, software selection and...
YP Analytics to drive ad ROI awareness
Background
Founded in 1908 as a division of Bell Canada, the now autonomous YellowPagesGroup has become a household name in directory services. The core component...
Drilling down into analytics
For the most part, industry events are designed to expose delegates to a wide range of new innovations to help them to understand the...
Six variations on the theme of analytics
InsightaaS: A conference focused on analytics featuring more than 40 formal user presentations and case studies and thousands of informal discussions is an ideal...
A deep dive into predictive analytics
Data is the new gold, but how do we mine it for actionable insight into business potential? Increasingly, organizations are turning to analytics, and...
Building infrastructure for data-driven decisioning
Beyond their intrinsic value as a showcase for new technology implementation, case studies provide additional benefit. By demonstrating the art-of the-possible, they help organizations...
Big Data facts, myths and eventualities: 8 insights and implications
Eleven years ago, Nicholas Carr published a Harvard Business Review article entitled "IT Doesn’t Matter" (followed quickly by a book with a slightly more...
Visualization & unlocking the power of analytics
InsightaaS: We have seen a surge of interest in analytics as organizations come to appreciate the power of applying data-driven analysis to business decisions....
Breakthrough Analytics: turning data into predictions
We know that analytics is becoming increasingly important because we are told that this is the case every week. Many of the most visible...
Building on BI to achieve analytics insight
Analytics have become the poster child for how IT empowers people, processes and production. As additional sources of data have emerged out of social...
Nate Silver on data do's and dont's
In his welcome to attendees at the Toronto installment of SAP’s Conversations on the Future of Business event, SAP Canada’s new COO Terry Madore...
The location-based future
InsightaaS: Inherent in the appeal of mobility (and to a substantial degree, of cloud-based Big Data analytics as well) is the concept of location-based...
