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How to use analytics to drive successful transformation
At the recent Wellington Analytics Forum I had the pleasure of making some opening remarks on behalf of Optimation as the event sponsor. The topic was Analytics in Government and featured James Mansell as the keynote speaker. If you're not familiar with James, you can get an insight into his approach by taking a look at this rather excellent piece of work for the Productivity Commission.
It’s time to bring in the little Elephant (Hadoop) into your Data Eco systems
Over the years business intelligence has grown in leaps and bounds. The early-2000s were when we built data warehouses in a structured and rigid approach with well-defined data modelling and source-to-target mappings. We invested heavily in the infrastructure to hold those massive data warehouses. That’s the era when the database appliances started to dominate in the data warehousing arena. A fortune was spent on setting up data centres, database appliances and other hardware. The majority of those spends were on the infrastructure and the heavy lifting of data from various source systems. Those were the days for professionals who were good at taming database appliances, UNIX systems, and networking. Consulting organisations were much keener on hunting those species. At one point we often wondered whether data warehousing was going to be a monopoly and was meant for only the big boys like Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP etc. Data warehouses in those days were meant for big established companies and were really costly, plus the majority of companies were sceptical about the ROI. Those were the days of analytical and MIS reporting.
Getting value from business analytics
Business analytics is rapidly becoming a key focus for us at Optimation, with a growing number of customers asking us about how they can best use and manage rich and varied data sources to make better business decisions. With that in mind, we were delighted to sponsor the recent meeting of the NZ Analytics Forum, which was held at Victoria University's Business School in Wellington.
