Author Archives: Andy Painter

About Andy Painter

A passionate Information and Data Architect with experience of the financial services industry, Andy’s background spans pharmaceuticals, publishing, e-commerce, retail banking and insurance, but always with a focus on data. One of Andy’s principle philosophies is that data is a key business asset.

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 9,700 views in 2012. If every person who reached the … Continue reading

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SAS Business Analytics – Visualisation, Mobility and Reporting

I recently attended a SAS Business Analytics seminar in Melbourne. The session provided insight from SAS, answering the following questions: How business analytics can integrate data from across a organisation to deliver self-service reporting and analysis. How the power of … Continue reading

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Data Quality – Go for Gold

July 16, 2012 By Simon McAlister (Altis Consulting) From time to time, ETL will highlight data quality issues.  There is often a choice between fixing the issue at the source or in the ETL processes. In this blog I argue … Continue reading

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Crunch time for big data

Source: http://www.uk.capgemini.com/news-centre/news/crunch-time-for-big-data/ and In a global survey of 600 executives this month by Capgemini and the Economist Intelligence Unit, nine out of 10 respondents identified data as being the fourth factor of production – as fundamental to business as land, … Continue reading

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Big Data – the end of Data Warehousing?

There is a massive amount of hype and buzz in the Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence market place surrounding the term ‘Big Data’.  Recently we have even seen talk of Big Data as a replacement for Data Warehousing.  I believe … Continue reading

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Mobile Business Intelligence set to revolutionise world ports

Australian innovation to revolutionise world ports Source:Transport and Logistics News DP World is claiming to be leading a revolution on the waterfront with the help of a new Australian business application called ‘PushBI’. The software delivers real-time performance information every … Continue reading

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Data Integration – Hot Topics and Key Trends for 2012

May 9, 2012 By andrew painter The need for Data Integration has never been greater. Organizations are faced with an overwhelming growth in data, an increasing range of diverse data sources and the continued proliferation of systems within the enterprise. … Continue reading

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Data quality – a never ending story

April 26, 2012 By paul priestly Data Quality Blog – A Never Ending Story                          Where’s a spell-checker when you need it? I was recently invited to provide one … Continue reading

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Celebrating the opening of Altis Consulting’s London office

April 13, 2012 By Peter Hopwood I am excited to formally announce the opening of the London office for Altis Consulting. We are taking our specialist expertise in business analytics, business intelligence, data management and data warehousing to the UK … Continue reading

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Getting the Best out of Global Projects

March 29, 2012 By Mythili Baker Being aware of and managing subtle cultural differences can make all the difference when managing a successful Global project.  Recently I held a post project review session as part of closing out a global … Continue reading

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