It’s common to hear it said that today, in order to thrive, every business needs to become a tech business.[...]

What will the world be like in 2030? Well, obviously, no one knows for sure, but we have some interesting predictions:[...]

Analytics and business intelligence (BI) have long been understood to be fundamental to business success.[...]

Today, information can be captured from many different sources, and technology to extract insights is becoming increasingly accessible.[...]

Businesses have faced huge challenges and have undergone an incredible amount of change over the past few years, and this won’t slow down in 2023.[...]

We’re living through the fourth industrial revolution (or “Industry 4.0”), a revolution that’s defined by wave upon wave of new technologies that combine the physical and digital worlds.[...]

I was recently talking to a startup car company that makes solar cars. Except they don’t exactly make anything themselves. The various parts of the manufacturing[...]

From fashion and the clothes we wear to how we move from place to place, and even how we meet, communicate, work and play with our fellow humans.[...]

American companies are in the midst of dealing with what has been dubbed “The Great Resignation,” an exodus of employees seeking higher pay[...]

It seems like everyone is talking about artificial intelligence at the moment, and there’s good reason for that. We are seeing its revolutionary impact across just about every industry.[...]

In business today, data is understood to be the key to improving every aspect of how we plan, administer, design, build, sell and look after our customers.[...]

Internal data is often the first place that companies look when they start to think about analytics and insights.[...]

Data has become the main raw material of the 4th Industrial Revolution, and making money from data has become a huge business opportunity.[...]

Space exploration is very much in vogue again in recent years thanks to the exploits of billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson.[...]

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Nike is successfully transforming from a traditional consumer goods business into a digital direct-to-consumer company.[...]

It’s often said that in order to succeed in today’s business environment, every company has to become a technology company. This is because how well a company is able to adapt to the increasingly[...]

Today, data is undoubtedly a leading driver of business success. How well a company is able to leverage insights from the ever-increasing wealth and complexity of available data.[...]

From GPS apps that tell us the nearest place we can buy a pizza to genomic programs sequencing DNA in order to create new medicines and cure disease.[...]

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A Chinese team of researchers has recently unveiled the world’s most powerful quantum computer [...]

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Amazon has thrived by adopting an “everything under one [...]

Learning to live with, let alone prosper from, the [...]

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With over 20,000 stores in 28 countries, Walmart is the largest retailer [...]

With more than 100 million subscribers around the world who generate [...]

The term “Big Data” may have been around for some […]

When new technologies become cheaper and easier to use, they […]

As the world becomes smarter and smarter, data becomes the […]

One of my favourite examples of why so many big […]

Everything useful that human beings have done has been based […]

Data is ubiquitous — but sometimes it can be hard […]

The number of jobs related to Big Data is growing […]

Big Data is one of THE biggest buzzwords around at […]

What do you think of when you think of “big […]

If you’re looking at ways you can harness the power […]

Here is another post in which I try to disentangle […]

Basically Spark is a framework – in the same way […]

When you learn about Big Data you will sooner or […]

What does data taste like? It’s probably not a question […]

There is a skills crisis in Big Data and data […]

Device fingerprinting is a technique for identifying a computing device […]

Today, Big Data gives us unprecedented insights and opportunities across […]

No matter how excited people like me get about the […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformative forces […]

Every business is inundated with data from every angle. There […]

Big Data – everyone’s heard about it by now – […]

If you have a goal to start a big data […]

Infographics have become an increasingly popular data visual isation   […]

In retail, supply chain efficiency is essential. Inventory management, picking, […]

Reporting the findings of data-driven discovery is often thought of […]

Data is power in the digital economy. Multi-national corporations have […]

There’s so much hype around the subject of Big Data […]

The Digital IQs—a measurement of an organisation’s abilities to harness […]

Space Data is about to get big. Thanks to the […]

Machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchains, predictive analytics – all amazing […]

Insights from data and analysis need to be packaged in […]

We all know companies are collecting more and more data, […]

It’s easy to draw parallels due to the way information (data) is used to power much of the transformative technology we see today [...]

Any average HR department is rich in data. Personal employee […]

The average Human Resources (HR) team is sitting on a […]

Hadoop is the open source software framework at the heart […]

One of the main challenges of HR data is the […]

The amount of data we produce every day is truly […]

Data will continue to transform the way we work, interact […]

I’m often asked whether big data can provide the same […]

While it’s very impressive that today’s technology allows us to […]

When it comes to coding Big Data and analytical applications, […]

We’re seeing a new wave of democracy—of data, that is. […]

Data Science is the theory and practice powering the data-driven […]

The phrase Big Data has now been around for a […]

Can computers solve all our problems?  Well, when combined with […]

Many of us have had the experience when we prepare […]

Data is breached every single day but most of these […]

Hadoop, Spark, Tensorflow, Python – the number of platforms, frameworks […]

If you’re even tangentially involved with big data, you know […]

One question I get asked a lot by my clients […]

A word of warning to those that infiltrate the content […]

There are hundreds (maybe even thousands) of articles out there […]

The market for Big Data and analytics technology is in […]

While many businesses start by using data to inform their […]

Computers are beginning to learn to read between the lines […]

If you Googled “metadata” and found this article, you used […]

Most businesses have a huge amount of text-based data, such […]

When you’re cooking, preparation is an essential step. Ingredients need […]

Most of you will be familiar with a financial credit […]

A good data strategy will help you clarify your company’s strategic objectives […]

In a previous article, I looked at data use cases – or […]

If you’re roughly the same age as me, you might remember buying […]

If you had the chance to lower your health insurance […]

Although the term augmented analytics was just coined in 2017 […]

Most organisations around the world are grappling with data literacy […]

Even though data literacy is a critical skill for the […]

Financial services were one of the first sectors to understand […]

The more data literate your organisation is, the better your […]

The amount of data generated daily is just mind-boggling. And […]

When a conversation turns to analytics or big data, the […]

Every business is now a data business. Data is a […]

You will often hear people involved in data and analytics […]

The problem with encrypted data is that you must decrypt […]

Data privacy is one of the most critical elements of […]

In the last few years, we’ve seen incredible advances in […]

People-related data is arguably HR’s most important asset. But when […]

You don’t have to spend a fortune and study for […]

If “necessity is the mother of invention,” coronavirus (COVID-19) forced […]

In the coming months, businesses are going to become more […]

Statistics and experts seem to suggest that, as I write […]

One of the advantages we have today in the fight […]

We have never lived in a world of faster and […]

The way we drive is changing. Globally, trends like urbanisation, […]

I’ve often promoted the idea that data-driven decision-making shouldn’t be […]

Unless you have the resources for building and maintaining large […]

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, healthcare systems were starting […]

Whether the economic impact of the coronavirus caused you to […]

For data to be useful to humans, we have to […]

Data – particularly Big Data – isn’t that useful on […]

As we start a new decade, the top trends for […]

The enormous amount of data being generated every day is […]

Data has become one of the most important business assets, […]

How do you know if the data you have is […]

The term “Big Data” may have been around for some […]

As workforces moved home to slow down the spread of […]

Did you know the average app includes six third-party trackers […]

Self-driving cars, lifelike robots, and 

The revolution in how we are using data to build […]

How data literate is your organization? If your company is […]

Data is the fuel of industry and commerce in the […]

The amount of data enterprise businesses are producing is growing […]

If you want to compete in today’s digitally enabled world, […]

Real-time analytics uses streaming data and makes sense of it […]