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Royal Australian Navy on managing assets and risk in a complex environment
Rear Admiral Adam Grunsell from the Royal Australian Navy was one of the keynote speakers at AMPEAK, the Asset Management Council's annual conference held this week in Adelaide, Australia. In this interview on the conference website, he discussed how the principles of good asset management are applied in a complex, large-scale context like defense. He also talked about the Interdependent Mission Management System (IMMS), developed with the help of Optimation’s Enterprise Awareness and Information Management consulting capabilities and using the ThoughtWeb platform.
Should strategy or technology drive transformation?
When companies first started talking about the cloud revolution and the third platform, the conversation changed from 'technology enabling transformation' to 'technology driving transformation'. But who is right? Do you start with a strategy or with a technology?
It’s time to bring in the little Elephant (Hadoop) into your Data Eco systems – Part 2
In an earlier blog I outlined several reasons for adopting Hadoop into the Data eco-system. In this post I'll try to demonstrate an approach for bringing Hadoop into the data environment, and outline 8 elements to consider before embarking on this journey.
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.
Turning data into business advantage
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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.
