The major enterprise resource planning (ERP) providers have all embarked on a strategy to provide functionality in their product suites to help their customers monitor and manage the environmental impact of their operations. This is being driven by new regulations on climate change and organisations acknowledging that reducing their carbon footprint has business benefits. At…
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI) latest technology tracker paints a bleak picture of the artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics strengths of Western countries compared with China. Among the metrics the tracker published is a graph showing research papers published between 2019 and 2023, which it used to rank national research performance in advanced…
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It’s almost become a cliché to say that data is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. However, Claire Thompson, group chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) at financial services firm L&G, says data has always been crucial to big firms. What’s changed during the past few years, particularly in her sector, is a recognition of…
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Capgemini has reported that organisations today are more effective at embedding data and insights into core business processes. Its update of a 2020 study is based on a survey of 500 business executives and 500 data executives from 500 organisations across 12 countries. In 2024, 60% of executives described their decision-making and actioning as data-powered.…
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Following the sinking of his luxury yacht on Monday, Reuters has reported that the body of tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been recovered.Lynch was among six people who have been confirmed to have died when the yacht sank after being hit by a sea tornado, known as a waterspout, in the early hours of Monday…
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Hybrid multicloud storage is intended to create the best of all worlds. By mixing on-premise technology with multiple public cloud resources, enterprises hope to optimise the attributes of each with regard to pricing, capacity, performance, features, security and resilience. The challenge is to create a coherent storage architecture out of multiple technologies rather than a…
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For Lyndsay Weir, the key to success with data analytics is getting to the “so what?”, beyond the charts and spreadsheets. “You need to understand what business question is and you need to get to the action. I say this to my teams, but whenever they produce anything, a report, a tool, a dashboard, my…
vchalup – stock.adobe.com By Published: 09 Jul 2024 The use of AI and automation in the public sector involves both public-facing systems and behind-the-scenes tools aimed at streamlining operations and freeing up staff time. But we know that these benefits are not guaranteed. Public sector organisations must approach automation with caution to avoid the pitfalls…
Data warehousing gave birth to Business Intelligence. This was a point memorably made to me by the analyst Mike Ferguson when I interviewed him for one of our articles celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Computer Weekly. He said, in 2016: “Data warehousing had to happen and was absolutely aimed at the BI market. Up till…
Pure Storage has stepped forward as the latest known victim of the fast-spreading Snowflake credentials breach, joining a list of over 150 organisations to have had their data stolen by a cyber criminal gang after their Snowflake instances were breached. The data storage specialist said it had confirmed and addressed a security incident involving unauthorised…
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