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John McConnellA first glimpse at IBM’s Watson Analytics
Read moreAn Analytical Tool for the Business User. It isn’t a new idea … more a nut that many of us have been trying to crack for many years. Today, of course, this problem is more pressing than ever. There are more questions that can be answered with analytics, more data to analyse and fewer trained analysts to go round. And, as IBM rightly point out, analysts (and other data specialists) can be a bottleneck in the process.
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John McConnellAre you ready to deploy
Read moreIf you’ve been watching what’s happening in Advanced Analytics recently then (apart from Big Data which we’ll come back to) Deployment, Automation and Decisions are 3 of the hot topics at the moment.
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John McConnellThe start of the cloud race
Read moreArguably the hottest topic in computing at the moment is around the notion of Cloud Computing which typically involves the availability of Software as a Service (SaaS).
Like many “new” IT related concepts it has largely been around for a while in different forms – applications have been hosted on the Internet for some time and the idea of Analytical Service Providers (ASPs) was around in the early 2000s – but recently the ideas have crystallised into the idea of “The Cloud” as the platform.
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John McConnellWho do you think your market is? Segmenting helps you find out
Read moreArguably the hottest topic in computing at the moment is around the notion of Cloud Computing which typically involves the availability of Software as a Service (SaaS).
Like many “new” IT related concepts it has largely been around for a while in different forms – applications have been hosted on the Internet for some time and the idea of Analytical Service Providers (ASPs) was around in the early 2000s – but recently the ideas have crystallised into the idea of “The Cloud” as the platform.
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