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Randal Jackson (Computerworld New Zealand) 21 November, 2013 The information gathered has the potential to improve investment decisions across the country, particularly for strategic rural road corridors, which have long proved a blind spot for network performance data Sysware Group and Beca have collaborated to create a technology platform for the NZ Transport Agency and its...

Sysware proudly sponsors Coffee Cart for SUNZ Event 2018  It was great to once again be part of the SUNZ 2018 conference and be able to sponsor and support the industry we are proud to say we have been part of for over 30 years. With Wellington known for great coffee, we thought it was...

Companies and organizations utilize data modeling in their business intelligence platforms to improve the accuracy, usability and turnaround time for reports. The process has long been through difficult for healthcare organizations, but a recent BeyeNETWORK report states the process is both possible and beneficial for those within the sector. According to the news provider, data modeling efforts...

There could be any number of reasons why a company's business intelligence platform collects dust from never being used, but a recent Information Management report identifies three factors that are applicable in almost any situation. For one, end-users want a solution that is easy to use, suggesting that self-service business intelligence should be more widely adopted. Users are less...

Much has been written about managing an enterprise BI Program and implementing data governance. Both of these are key ingredients to business value, but even with well-run BI and data governance programs, business people can get different results when they access different BI deliverables.  When this happens, they have to either reconcile or debate the...

Published on 09/05/2012 by Peter Dorrington, Director of Marketing Strategy (EMEA), SAS What value does your organization place on business analytics to help understand and solve problems? MIT Professor Erik Brynjolfsson has spent years researching the value of business analytics to business and has quantitative data demonstrating why businesses that use data-driven decision making perform measurably better...

Published on 07/06/2012 by Anna Brown, Editor MIT research measures data-driven decision making, analytical culture and humans vs. machines. I always enjoy discovering research that shows where business models are headed – or even what direction the economy as a whole will take. That’s why I found Erik Brynjolfsson’s presentation at The Premier Business Leadership Series...

Published on 05/06/2012 by Anna Brown, Editor Dr. Ralf Schneider, CIO of Allianz Group at his recent presentation at the Premier Business Leadership Seminar in Amsterdam You can't get one without managing the other. And you can't manage big data without getting a handle on your organization’s complexity. "Complexity is not scalable, but the management...

by Mike Kotlyar - Sysware Group –Senior Business Analyst Management information is the life blood of any business, but some businesses have more complex needs than others. Retail in particular presents complex issues and challenges to providers and consumers of business intelligence software. In this paper I wanted to scan the current environment and provide...

A major Australasian bank has a large data warehouse where they are building a customer-centric view of their corporate data. In the past banks have been limited by the product-based nature of their operational systems. Most banks are now moving towards having complete views of their customers' relationships with them as this greatly enhances marketing...