Ever since the Babylonians began to predict weather from cloud patterns and astrology, humans have tried to build a solid method to predict short-term, and increasingly of late, longer-term weather patterns. The science of weather forecasting dates back to the careers of Francis Beaufort, an Irish hydrographer who served as Britain’s Hydrographer of the Navy […]
One of the biggest stories in European energy markets last year was the 200% jump in EU carbon allowances (EUAs), with prices rising from around €8/tonne to a peak of more than €25/tonne. The impact of the 2018 carbon surge on power plant generation economics was profound, pushing margins for many coal-burning plants into negative […]
Just like oil is used to power vehicles, airplanes and machines, data is used to power most of the transformative technology we see today i.e. artificial intelligence, automation, and advanced predictive analytics. Refining or transforming both data and oil makes it more valuable to the consumer, but does that make data the new oil? How […]
Demand for ‘data professionals’ of all stripes continues to grow at a seemingly insatiable rate. The trend is now pervasive across almost any industry, and any department or any individual role within. The mainstream has nearly universally embraced the current aspiration standard in strategic thinking and culture – to be data-driven. Organizations are clearly striving […]
Germany has embarked on a challenging transformation of its energy sector. The government last year commissioned a report on how the country can end its reliance on coal for power generation while retaining its competitiveness and ensuring a sustainable transition to a low-carbon economy. Germany is not the first country to commit to an exit […]
Over the last decade, adoption of Cloud Computing, and SaaS in particular, has become a mainstream IT strategy for large corporations. The benefits of SaaS is well known and can readily be quantified. The risks, however, are more difficult to quantify and measure. Compound that with multiple SaaS vendors employed by a typical large corporation, […]
In today’s world, where data is vital for the businesses to run efficiently, we come across various methods to handle and process the data to derive information. The amount of important data is almost doubling every day in every organization. This means data management is equally important to make effective use of it. One of […]
Knowledge is power, but is there such a thing as too much information? Who are these organizations? They are businesses with data centres that are not set-up to keep pace with the demands growing information sets are putting on them. Keeping pace with the demands growing information sets put on them is probably the biggest […]
As organizations across the world adopt IT infrastructure to conduct their operations, they keep becoming more and more data centred. What this means is that the amount of data they use rises exponentially. This includes the organizations’ own transactional data and their users’ data collected over the span of years. Protecting these huge chunks of […]
Introduction Over the years as they gain experience, organizations educate themselves about the ins and outs of Master Data Management and MDM solutions. However many business managers and business leaders still aren’t aware of what Master Data Management is, this makes it necessary to educate them about Master Data Management and things that are important. […]