An organization is filled up with tons and tons of data. Emerging technologies have changed the way to deal with the available information, brought in new ways to determine and understand business trends. The availability of information brings not only opportunities...

Power BI is a business analytics solution helping users to visualize data, create stunning dashboards and embed them in any application. It's availability over a cloud platform means that it can be used without any capital expenditure or infrastructure support. It is...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the toast of every technology driven company. Integration of AI gives a business a massive amount of transformation opportunities to leverage the value chain. Adopting and integrating AI technologies is a roller-coaster ride no matter...

Many C-level or IT decision-makers believe that the sheer volume of data sets the foundation of AI (Artificial Intelligence). Around 90% of enterprises incorporate AI because it’s trendy. Many lack the required skillset and tools to use AI and mitigate complexities of...

Data quality is crucial to any successful Business Intelligence project. Poor data leads to poor reporting and decisions making capabilities. Data quality is a common issue in Business Intelligence as most of can identify and acknowledge. But, how do we define data...

What does it take to successfully implement a data lake? - Well, the answer is having a clear idea of what you aim for or why you need a specific set of data from data storage. If you’re are thinking whether or whether not to implement a data lake, here are the key...

Contracts are difficult (or rather impossible) to sort. They are everywhere, distributed across many repositories, scattered across multiple locations. The inaccessibility of contracts makes the task of managing them cumbersome, leading to a risk of losing out...

Data has the power to transform a business in and out. In order to remain relevant and gain competitive advantage, an enterprise needs to have the ability to transform data into breakthrough insights. Data is growing exponentially. To control the flow of this huge...

The tech world today is talking about three important terminologies: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning  and Deep Learning. These names often create confusions. Many think the three terms are one and the same when there are significant differences between them....

Data holds the utmost power to transform the business landscape. It helps discover business insights and helps decision-making. An enterprise system generates a huge chunk of data, which is certainly not a piece of cake to manage. New type of data comes with high...

Do you use self-service BI? No? Think again… How often have you selected few parameters, set some filters and got a report of your banking transactions from the internet banking facility of your bank? Or as a web marketer, haven’t you configured custom reports to get...

Is a data lake going to replace the data warehousing system in near future? Whether to use a data warehouse or a data lake or both? These are some of the common queries raised by the business users. Businesses should understand the concept of both data lake and data...

In our earlier post, we introduced the concept of Machine learning (ML) and also some types as well as applications in real world. In the second part of this series, lets peek into how to build Machine learning apps using Microsoft Azure. What is Azure Machine...

For many people, their first experience and introduction to Machine Learning was the ‘Recommendations’ feature on Amazon. The system was able to predict future choices to a consumer based on what previous choices they had made. Many people conflate the concepts of...

Data Warehouse, also known as enterprise data warehouse, is considered as one of the core elements of BI (Business Intelligence). Data warehouse is a system or means for reporting and data analysis and also supports the decision-making process. The process of...

Your business data is extremely POWERFUL, only if you are able to use it properly-- to generate valuable and actionable insights. However, it is also imperative to organize and analyze it well. A recent report says, less than 0.5% of the business data is actually...

According to the report released by Gartner, the global market of Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software will expand to reach $18.3 billion by the end of 2017 and shall continue to grow till 2020 to reach $22.8 billion.  Business users increasingly demand...

If you are still clouded on the idea of whether or whether not to have a Power BI implementation partner, you must read this blog. The answer is yes! Yes, you should have an implementation partner for Power BI. Power BI is a marvelous resource to any business. It is...

The emergence of the data warehouse transformed the business information management landscape which was previously restricted to manual methods, complex & unwieldy spreadsheets and was generally inaccessible to the general users. Its exponential and rapid growth...

Today, large enterprise organizations are struggling with an ocean of data. From online shopping analytics to the Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data, the modern IT team is inundated with raw or semi-raw data captured from every side of the organization. These...

Contracts are the foundation of commerce. To better handle contracts by standardizing and automating the contracting process, ensuring greater control, better supply chain agility and responsiveness and improved execution speed, today’s enterprises are hunting high...

For every enterprise, managing contracts is a critical and challenging task. Even a simple question around contract expiry dates or the location of the latest version of a contract can slow down a critical transaction or process. To maximize workflow efficiency, many...

Traditional Data warehousing has hit a roadblock. Most organizations have ancient information management systems typically built in an age where inflexible systems working within solos were sufficient to address data needs of that era- limited data sources, infrequent...

Now-a-days, a lot is being written about emerging technology and invariably, ‘Cloud’ always gets a mention along with Big Data and Mobile. We agree that moving to the cloud isn’t as easy as turning on a fan, and when it comes to data management, business intelligence...

In today’s electronically interconnected world, the amount of data generated by business operations can have an inundating effect on enterprise systems. In this age of connectivity, businesses are flooded by a mountain of data which floods enterprise systems. To...

In today’s technology world, data generated on a day to day basis from different sources is enormous. This data can have valuable information that can help executives to take effective decisions. Organizations use Business Intelligence (BI) to cater to this but only...

Advances in the arena of pharmaceutical development have suffered from declining success rates for some time now, due to a number of critical factors such as decreased R&D, as well as multiple challenges to growth and profitability, and the increasing cost of...

Speculation around the future of retail often tends to drift into visions of drones flying through the skies and delivering packages within minutes of a consumer clicking a few buttons on a site. In this projection, the bricks and mortar retail stores are old...

Today, multiple sources are generating loads of data than before, but many still struggle with how to turn this data into actionable business insights. In fact, business leaders report they only use 30 percent of the data that exists within their companies....

More and more organizations are coming to understand that there are valuable insights hidden in the data which they generate during the course of their work that could transform their business operations. The science of data analysis is growing fast around the world,...

Earlier, pharmaceutical companies would invest in expensive, broad-scale product promotion via lengthy doctor visits. A recent survey suggests that 87% intend to increase their use of analytics to target spending and drive improved ROI. Some of that money is likely to...

For all kinds of organizations, whether large multi-national enterprises or small businesses, developing a big data strategy is a difficult and time-consuming exercise. In fact, big data projects can take up to 18 months to finish. While a few within an organization...

Retail organizations generate massive amounts of data. Strangely enough, not many retail players are putting all this big data to its use. However, a Retail Store Chain did that and with their big data strategy, managed to take a refreshing approach in exploiting that...

Over the last five years, there has been a growing understanding of the role that Big Data can play in delivering priceless insights to an organization, revealing strengths and weaknesses and empowering companies to improve their practices. Big data has no agenda, is...

Once in a while, a technology comes along that is so disruptive and so unique that it often takes a few years before applications to make the most effective use of that technology are sufficiently developed. So it is with the advent of cloud computing and its...

Traditionally, the claims processing center is an insurance payer’s largest administrative expense. Often, it’s also the most procedurally and technologically encumbered functional area. With economic and regulatory pressures escalating, insurers need solutions that...

Advances in data collection, sensor technology, cloud-based data management and analytics capabilities have resulted in huge volume of unstructured data have helped provide control to patients/consumers and healthcare professionals in managing their health conditions....

HIPAA-compliant cloud storage implements the guidelines of the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). These guidelines ensure the protected health information (PHI) in a cloud is portable, available to healthcare practitioners, error-free,...

“Infrastructure is a big selling point for Amazon Web Services, but Microsoft is an important competitor, especially for clients who are already using the Microsoft stack. They can connect their domains seamlessly in these cases. Hybrid solutions work very well with...

Many enterprises have contracts sitting in various repositories, file shares and servers with key terms and data buried in their text or in contract management software which act as one of the former. Statements of work, indemnifications, assignment terms, revenue...