Drive Business Success Through New Clarity
All businesses strive to get the best possible outcome in an uncertain and competitive world. But really achieving that goal means businesses must understand their complete contexts — themselves, their competition, and the markets they serve — far more clearly and...
The Action Is Not In AI, Its In Machine Learning
In mainstream news (non-tech news) or the entertainment industry (movies and TV in particular), artificial intelligence (AI) appears to be a singular technology. This technology often takes a human form and is consigned to performing menial tasks or overtaking the...
What You Should Do When Machines Start Doing Your Job
When people think about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning on jobs, they usually think of manual jobs - fully automated production lines, driverless vehicles (taxis, trains, trucks, buses, etc), drone delivery services, etc. This type of...
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...
Detecting Mobile Malware
Since the breakthrough in botnets specifically for mobile began in 2011, they have been a major headache, and cause for concern, for all those involved with the security of mobile devices. While early generations of botnets have been in operation on computers and...
Handling Self Service IT
For end-users these days, it’s a wondrous world. IT departments are rolling out tools to enable these end-users access the data and services they require; from employee benefits accounts, to once inaccessible corporate data stacks. Before handing over the reins...
Encrypting Smartphone Calls
Many companies, looking to cut the cost of their employee's tech use, now operate a bring your own device (BYOD) policy. This has obvious benefits, not least of which is the reduction in capital cost of buying smartphone technology for their employees. However, this...