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A community blog about data and how to manage it
25th May 2018 – write it down, pin it above your desk or put it in your diary. The date for EU GDPR regulation entering enforceable UK law is rapidly approaching, and many Marketing, Governance, Data ...
Whilst the transition to digital has brought countless benefits to businesses, almost every organisation runs the risk of losing or corrupting sensitive data, either through accidental, or malicious i...
Digital adoption, artificial intelligence, automation, embedded analytics are terminologies which are known to all the people associated with the financial services/industry. These terminologies are i...
Not the Messiah, just a very very nasty boy: Uber abhorrent actions on huge data breach https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609539/uber-paid-off-hackers-to-hide-massive-data-breach/?utm_source=newsl...
I’m willing to bet you know someone who’s fallen victim to credit card fraud – if you haven’t done so yourself. In the first six months of this year alone, there were a record-breaking 89,000 cases of...
Where did this invoice come from? And why was an order placed with this supplier? With efficiency largely defining success, these are questions that any head of purchasing should not have to concern t...
Introduction AnaCredit (The Analytical Credit and Credit Risk Dataset), is a project from the European Central Bank (ECB) to create a shared database containing information on bank loans to compan
There are a number of challenges business leaders face when it comes to good financial planning – with concerns around business agility, inefficient reporting and long budget cycles all standing in th...
There is no doubt that retailers recognize the value of knowing their customers better. Whatever the merchant sector, geography, or business model, understanding customer buying habits, payment and ch...
The reality for many banks is that data lakes are becoming data swamps, with business users unable to access the large volumes of machine-generated, clickstream, and externally generated data that liv...
The last decade brought out the importance of service as a differentiator. It is important to ride the technology growth to provide differentiators in products & services. The reference of “Inform...
Bit late in posting this up, but given I did something about RainStor I thought I should write up my attendance at a MarkLogic event day in downtown Manhattan from several weeks back - their NoSQL da...