Digital Transformation for Power Plant
Picture by Timothy Cheng Fu, GE Reports. Power system equipment condition monitoring is a must if you wish to ensure the efficiency and reliability of electricity supply. This is typically achieved with equipment maintenance or replacement based on typical service...
Why Polling Prediction Failed – Data Quality
In the modern world, data and information are driving forces of any business or operation. Poor data analysis can lead to unfortunate circumstances for any company or public organization. We only need to look at the latest election to see how false data collection and...
How Machine Learning Makes IoT Relevant
Many of the manufacturers involved in developing IoT technology are still finding a way through the evolving landscape. Most, however, remain focussed on convenience. Convenience products won’t sell in significant quantities, however. Instead IoT devices that are...
The K.I.S.S Principle
The temptation with business intelligence, and especially with the amount of real-time information now present in the modern age, is the tendency to too much. However this excess of real-time data, far from giving us a complete view of a developing situation, can...
DDoS: Most Important Hacker Tool in 2015
The Internet is undoubtedly one of the greatest technological gifts humanity has ever seen. It has transformed society and the way we look at the world and communicate with each other; it's been a boon to commerce and business. All of this is balanced, however, by the...
Cloud Services Comparison
Business Intelligence used to mean massive overheads – caused by old-style data centers – consuming as much as 58% of the revenue received. Not any more: with a move to cloud computing these costs can be reduced drastically. Labor costs can be kept at 6%, while...
Growing ROI on Cloud Business Intelligence
An ever-growing number of businesses are now choosing to run their mission-critical intelligence operations on the cloud. It is clear that it is now becoming a mainstream technology. For good reason too. It is increasingly superior, and proving to be a more than...
IoT is a New Backdoor for DDoS Attacks
One of the more unorthodox and interesting ways that hackers can perform a DDoS attack is through the backdoor of millions and millions of improbable devices from Fridges to Coffeepots. Using the fast emerging Internet of Things (IoT) hackers can take control of vast...
DDos Attacks to Continue in 2015
It is clear that, in the preceding months, the sophistication and scale of DDoS attacks on vulnerable enterprises has increased rapidly. In the last year nearly double the amount of DDoS attack were recorded; half of which used sophisticated multi-vector attacks....
Cutting Costs with Big Data
The effect of big data on business intelligence is huge. And not just in terms of developing markets, building revenues or analysing consumer behaviour. Steadily, and by increments, it is showing itself to be a huge boom to the back office and operational cost...
Cost of BI
Despite the rocketing popularity of business intelligence and its proven significant ROI, nearly one third of companies think the cost is still prohibitive. However, in an article on Yurbi, 5000fish takes on the sensitive subject of just what exactly are the costs of...
Measuring IT Security
Data breaches seem to have been constantly in the headlines in recent years. This has caused many top level executives to ask this question of their information security officers: “How safe is our data?” In the rapidly evolving world of cloud computing and data...