The findings of this year's World Quality Report show that the demand for Testing is expanding in scope and shifting towards more specialized Testing, i.e. Mobility Testing, cloud based Testing platforms and increased industrialization. More and...
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Empowering voters to make choices, backed with data
Social Media- Informed DecisioningElections are a nation’s way of reviewing the progress and well being of its citizens, its position and strength in the global fraternity. The entire election exercise spans across a couple of years ,starting from...
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Het besparen van kosten is een veelgenoemde aanleiding voor Business Intelligence (BI) projecten. Zo wilde een bekende overheidsinstantie weten hoe effectief de bestrijding van uitkeringsfraude was. Het onderzoeken van mogelijke fraude kost de...
Read moreSocial Media Jam: Google Maps Innovation
Yesterday’s excellent social media jam event featured Google’s Ed Parsons talking about the immediate and future vision for Google Maps, at the Capgemini office in Central London. Read on for some notes, comments and observations from the...
Read moreOne version of the truth – a phrase that is past its sell-by date?
The phrase “One version of the truth” has been used across all sectors as a succinct way of saying that data should be consistent without any ambiguity about which value to use by eliminating all the alternatives that might arise through...
Read moreThe 4th 'V' of Big Data and why it matters
We have recently discussed the importance of the 3 V's of Big data, Velocity, Volume and Variety but, what about 'the 4th V' which is information VALUE? A case of more haste less speed? How can we possibly embark on a Big Data project in the...
Read moreGoodbye CIO, Hello Consumerization of IT. You must be joking right?
From New York to Shanghai, from industry think-tanks through to IT vendors, rumour has it, that the future of IT and, the role of our esteemed CIO is under threat and, all, from the perceived comfort a colleagues favorite smartphone near...
Read moreData Fairy tales – Episode 3 ‘Big Data means BIG DATA’
So, we all remember our 'happily ever afters' don't we? I have the third instalment in the Information Management story; it’s tantamount to a scandal in my eyes! Enter into the field of ‘Big Data’ where, vendors slug it out over who can...
Read moreData Fairy tales – Episode 2 ‘The Single View of the Truth’
So, we all remember our 'happily ever afters' don't we? I have the second instalment in the Information Management story; another epic but this time with a wicked twist at the end! Cue the ‘Single View of the truth’ and, I have to say, the...
Read morePredictive Analytics: Harnessing Information to Gain True Insight
by Scott Schlesinger, Head of Business Information Management for North America, CapgeminiIDC has estimated the global Predictive Analytics (PA) market to be approx. $1.5b and growing at a compound annual rate of 7%. This growth surpasses what has...
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