The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant impact, change and ongoing uncertainty to most New Zealand organisations. Intelligent data analytics tools are more essential than ever in enabling businesses to bring information together across all areas of the business to help determine the impact of this current crisis. CDP has been... read more →
Apr 30
Nov 27
IBM’s Cognos Analytics 11.1 has arrived, and offers some dramatic changes that are expected to shake things up in the Analytics world. We’re excited to see that IBM has infused much of their Watson Analytics capability into the new product, including automatic insights, easy visualisation and natural language query capabilities.... read more →
May 22
Is your data warehouse a mud pit of technical debt that your organisation is crawling through to try to catch up, or are you running in the wide open spaces of the new agile world of analytics? Information is the lifeblood of many organisations, yet most organisations are failing to derive... read more →
Nov 06
According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2018 is the year of the Earth Dog and it’s characteristic word is ACTION! We are told that it will be a good year in all respects, but we must resist the urge to postpone our activities and accelerate the initiation of all things on... read more →
Sep 27
We have been increasing the use of open source technologies such as Talend for building information solutions for our clients. Open source tools are now dominating thought leadership and innovation. They have also upped their game in reliability and support options, so they can be considered a viable and cost... read more →
Sep 21
Increased Dashboard Functionality With new and updated functionality around filters, calculations and visualisations this is the most exciting release of Cognos Analytics. Here are a few of the updates: Enhanced Filtering – the addition of the Filter dock area at the top of the Dashboard allows users to declutter their... read more →
Sep 13
Intro Repeat after me – “I have been born to be agile”. As Steve Jobs once remarked – “…I know what I want once I see it…”. If you look at the human spirit, at heart, it adapts. It improvises. And ohhhhhhhh man does it survive. The human mind is... read more →
Aug 22
This is the first in a series of articles which deal with the values in the Agile manifesto. “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools“. In agile, we acknowledge that the stuff on the right (the stuff in italic) is important. But we value the stuff on the left more... read more →
Aug 01
So you have a stand-up every morning. Good for you… So you have JIRA. Even better for you…. But are you working on things that are forever stuck on your board? If so, you are probably “doing agile” instead of “being agile” (thanks boss – you rock). Being agile is... read more →
Jul 20
As a reporting mechanism, dashboards offer businesses the ability to move beyond figures and data, into a world were aggregated information and display metrics can be consumed and understood by simply looking and absorbing. Decision making with dashboards According to Gartner research, dashboards help by improving decision making by using... read more →