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Big data and analytics?

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The Big data and analytics question is at the forefront of many business leaders thinking but it’s worth taking a step back and looking at some of the wider macro-economic trends. Since the post war era, UK productivity has risen steadily when averaged over the decades but dropped significantly following the 2008 financial crisis and is now only slowly reaching post crisis levels. In fact, the Office for National Statistics has stated that in the last quarter of 2017, productivity of British...

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Understanding the democratisation of data

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Business decisions are increasingly being made based on data insight, but getting access to this data, traditionally owned by IT departments, can, at times, be quite difficult. As the requests from across the business start piling up with the ‘owners’ of the data, there has been an increased demand for ‘data democratisation’ – the ability for everyday employees to access data, and understand it, at any time without requiring support from data specialists. By Javier Campos, Experian.

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Latest EU study shows Europe has developed a solid Open Data policy but still needs further strategic action and awareness

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New study by Capgemini Invent highlights the strategic prioritization to push forward Open Data transformation across Europe.

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Schneider Electric - What’s going on with edge data centres right now?

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Digitalisation World's Philip Alsop interviews Kevin Brown, Senior Vice President of Innovation and Chief Technology Officer for the €3.7 billion IT Division at Schneider Electric, about how the edge data centre market is developing, with particular emphasis on the importance of the local edge – the interface between an enterprise and its customers.

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DNB Bank partners with Collibra for next generation data-powered customer service

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DNB Bank (DNB) - Norway’s largest financial services group - has announced its partnership with Collibra - a leader in enterprise data governance and data cataloguing software - to enable the group’s global data strategy. The Collibra platform will allow DNB to better understand how data is being utilised in business processes to deliver value to customers, optimise business operations and monitor the bank’s compliance with industry data regulations.

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Talend and Databricks deliver data engineering solution

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Databricks and Talend have formed a strategic partnership that includes the integration of their products to enable data engineers to more easily perform data integration at large scale.

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How to Turn Data into Business Value

Marc Chemin, Global Insights & Data Consulting Leader, shares his view on how our clients can exploit big data and analytics to enhance organizational revenues, customer satisfaction and business processes.

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