Mobile Payments – the next banking paradigm?
Just had an interesting presentation by Tim Lambertstock at the BCS on "The Changing Face of Payments" - how payments are made (yesterday and...
The Power of Data Visualization in Four Minutes
Want to understand the power of data visualization? Watch this video from Professor Hans Rosling, a professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute,...
New Ways to Save on Electricity Using Analytics and Smarter Home Devices
If you have spent more than $70 a year on standby electricity use while devices were shut off, chances are you’d find a way...
3 Key Questions for Data Analytics Projects
In a recent BNET article, Michael Hess, shared a philosophy for making business as simple as possible. Called Occam’s Razor, this philosophy boils down...
After an Event comes a Decision…
While discussing the proposed OMG Decision Modelling standard with business rules specialist Ron Ross recently, Ron reminded me of the list of "roles" that...
How Data Visualization and BI Put An End To Dilbert-Style Meetings
According to a study commissioned by Verizon, 91% of professionals admit to daydreaming in meetings, 95% say they miss all or part of meetings,...
The Role of CEP in Enterprise Architecture
Recently we discussed how to explain the value of CEP to the Enterprise and how CEP relates to Enterprise Architecture. Enterprise Architects don't always...
Five Ways To Collect Data To Benefit Your Company and Your Customers
Amazon.com is known for collecting data about customers and using that data in a way that benefits Amazon.com, the customer whose data is collected...
Forrester Says Enterprises Will Focus On Self-Service BI, SaaS BI and Real-Time Analytics in...
Echoing many of the predictions by Marcus Borba, an article in ComputerWorld predicts that self-service business intelligence, SaaS-based business intelligence and real-time analytics will...
Analytics to CEP: closing the loop
There are a number of key indicators of product maturity in decision automation, such as:
the integration of CEP to Decision Automation (e.g. assigning appropriate...