Reflections on the Strata Data Conference 2019 in London.

Ten crucial steps to establish a foundation for organisation-wide success.

Like many others, we were quite surprised at the news that the proverbial guns had been lowered between Cloudera and Hortonworks after a decade of intense rivalry.  The news of their mega-merger percolated through social media circles with admissions of shock but not horror. And although I was reminded of a prior premonition, I was as…

Four steps to getting started with Big Data and Analytics

There are plenty of articles on how to work towards GDPR compliance. This isn’t one of those.

Read our new post on a proof of concept our Data team worked on recently, using machine learning to identify anomalous users of a service.

Marc Heasman talks about the sources of insights valuable in understanding user needs.

Darragh McConville explains why we identified Arcadia Data as a unique Big Data Analytics platform

I’ve spoken to a few people this week who have expressed surprise at Workday’s acquisition of Platfora.  I wanted to pen this blog to explain why I feel it makes sense. What is Platfora? Platfora is an Hadoop-only, big data discovery platform that includes data preparation and visualisation.  Its goal is to empower business users to…

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Big Data Belfast 2016 conference in the spectacular Titanic building. I attended the same conference last year and have been to numerous meetups in the past 12 months. So this got me thinking about how far the data analytics space has come over the course of the…