Data driven decisions only worthwhile if executed effectively- read on....

Welcome to the first 2016 roundup from Business Intelligence Insights, with latest news and unique views from our team.

Harvesting Big Data in Agriculture
If you can increase output by 5%, reduce input costs by 5%, reduce wastage by 5% the impact is immense for struggling farmers and hungry consumers.The sum total of Individual farmers is the complete data harvest for agricultural analytics that can... Read more

HR & Digital Disruption
Analytics is pivotal to HR best practise in 2016. Not just analysing the same old people data but combining workforce and machine data. As wearables and robots permeate enterprises HR must optimise the effectiveness of both man and machine working... Read more

ISVs- think like Uber about analytics
Michael Locke of Aberdeen Group summed up the reason savvy ISVs must embed analytics in their products. " a well-conceived addition of BI capabilities makes any ISV solution more attractive and stickier. A stickier solution drives greater... Read more

5 Key Reasons Data Analytics Projects Fail
With the best will in the world it is a sad fact that many BI projects fail. On the other hand most IT projects disappoint as they fail in  at least one of three critical success factorsTo be delivered on time, within budget and to... Read more

The Uber,& Spotify impact on Analytics
Customer experience will be the primary basis of competition in 2016 which is a salutary thought for BI and Analytics vendors. Looking at their websites they too often focus on sizzling visualisations, that bloated term "big data" or various terms... Read more

Every application will need to offer embedded analytics
The rapidly accelerating ways technology can be used to store, manage, analyze and act on data was the underlying catalyst for disruption in every single field during 2015....ISVs that ignore this and continue to offer limited analytics in their... Read more

Marketing and Big Data Analytics
Builds on my recent observations that it is the questions you ask as much as the answers you get that are important. And you can't ask the right questions unless you have complete data as you don't understand the big picture.In my early days as a... Read more

Gut Feel v Data Driven Decisions
Much commentary on Big Data Analytics is about the technologies sprinkled with use cases to illustrate good practice. Too often we leave out people and particularly C-Level tier who rely more on intuition than data.Every year the investment in BI... Read more

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