

Banking & Pharma…how BIG DATA is linking these industry giants.
'Simply having a strategy is not enough, the power and value of strategy comes from its implementation, even when the strategy is grounded in non-absolute terms or general directions’. In the first of a series of strategy articles, we’ll investigate how two industry giants, ‘Banking’ and ‘Big Pharma’, faced with similar regulation challenges, could offer shared growth prospects in the domain of BIGDATA. Within the Life Sciences industry, Biotech/Pharmaceutical firms are witne


Parent Child Incident Management for Business Intelligence
The following article covers the parent child incident management for a business intelligence support model and highlights the benefit of deploying this process in to a support model. This process can be embedded into a support model that has at least two tiers of support (level 1 and level 2 support). As per my previous article on BI two tier support model, I believe having two tiers is the ideal number for a business intelligence support model. If all levels of support are

BI in the Modern World
The last two decades have spawned a revolution in technology. This is the age where a 2-year old can use a tablet with ease and 94-year olds have Facebook profiles. When we use our favourite bit of ‘technology’, be it unlocking our phone to use an app, opening our favourite or most useful website, swiping our travel pass that uses NFC, we all expect a certain standard of product, and a minimum level of functionality. What we also demand is that the product evolve to our ever