Top 10 reasons you might not want to run your business operations using MS Excel

Almost 16,000 UK COVID infection cases recently went ‘missing’ due to a “technical error with an Excel spreadsheet”. Using Excel for life-and-death situations, was in this case, a poor choice. Here are 10 reasons you might want to question using Excel to power your business.

  Anthony Osborn   Oct 2020   5 min read   268 views

What's the difference between a Business Intelligence Tool and an Operational Intelligence Platform?

I’ve been working with Business Intelligence (BI) tools for a number of years now, and my collection of vendor water-bottles is slowly building up.  BI vendors are good at keeping their analysts hydrated, but where is this industry actually headed?

When we look back over 2019, we see some major acquisitions in the Business Intelligence (BI) vendor tool space, which suggest a certain coming-of-age, re-shaping or maturity for this industry.  For example, Tableau was acquired by Salesforce for $15.3bn (June, 2019), Looker was bought by Google for a reported $2.6bn (also June, 2019), Qlik snapped ...

  Anthony Osborn   Oct 2019   8 min read   299 views

Using Microservices to Manage Data

When it came to building Stratiam as a robust and scaleable system, we realised there would be some decisions that would be best made early on. One of those was how we architect the backbone of a system that will need to import and process billlions of lines of data without adversely affecting the experience of users wanting to access and view reports based on that data.

  Christopher Johnson   Oct 2019   8 min read   185 views

Machine Learning for Cambridge Parking Prediction

You probably don’t yet have a robot driving your car. But if you’re traveling into Cambridge by car, you can now use machine-learning to suggest when and where to park.

  Anthony Osborn   May 2019   14 min read   496 views