Preventing disaster at Power Plant
KievPost FoxNews Chernobyl accident A power plant must be monitored to ensure that it doesn’t fail, which could be a real disaster. That’s why you need an effective monitoring solution to prevent such a scenario. An integrated power plant operation monitoring (PPOM)...
What You Can Expect In 2017 For IOT
When you look at expert predictions for what will happen in the IoT space in 2017, it is clear technologies and thinking is both advancing quickly. It is also clear that traditional industries and brands face challenges from nimbler newcomers, with some of those...
Machines Can Learn, But How?
Many experts predict that machine learning (which any companies are currently investing in significantly) will be responsible for the most important breakthroughs in history. That includes being more important than the industrial revolution or the introduction of...
Competitor Data Work For Your BI Analytics
It is almost a given that in this day and age, an organization will be mining its own customer data for consumer habits and insights into the marketplace. But what if your company was able to track the competition's data as well – ethically, of course – but in a...
Is Your Biggest Threat Internal
Your company could be compromised, even with a relatively tech-savvy workforce. Fooled into allowing attackers access to company networks, it is this mode of access that is one of the biggest cyber security challenges. Perceptive, well-meaning employees can be fooled...
Self Service Still Needs Self Actualization
Many companies' experience of self service business intelligence (BI) is similar to the early days of agile development; companies were then drawn to a model that promised improved business-IT relations and expedited delivery cycles. This was particularly attractive...
Social media by nature easily exploitable
Social media is surely one of the phenomena of the 21st Century. Everyone has a favorite social media platform and this has changed the way we communicate – sharing news and gossip. Twitter and Facebook, for example, are force multipliers when it comes to the spread...
Top Three BI Tools
Self-service business intelligence makes data discovery and analysis remarkably easy. The three next generation tools only make this statement more true. Watching these new, easy-to-use and exploratory BI products outsmart and outperform the older platforms is seeing...
Rising Threat of Social Media Attacks
Social media is a useful tool for any business. Its ability to reach and engage with customers is unrivaled. However, with the rise in use, so comes the rise in attacks using this medium. Hackers and fraudsters have also cottoned on to the 'potential' in this new...
Self Service BI All About Me
By 2017, it is predicted that most business users – in addition to the analysts – will have access to their own version of self-service business intelligence tools. The ability to prepare their own data for analysis has been a long time coming, and the pace of change...
Choose The Right Smartphone Encryption
Most companies now have smartphones, if not as standard, for a select group of key employees. These devices are now capable of calculating numbers in spreadsheets, email and storage of commercially sensitive documents. As workforces become ever more reliant on remote...
Solid Foundation Needed for Self Service BI
The world of business intelligence is continuing to embrace self-service analytic tools, and the use of these continues to grow, almost exponentially. It is expected, that by the end of 2016 a majority of businesses will have some sort of self-service BI in place and...