As if working in the city isn’t challenge enough, John Stanford , Director of insurance specialist  Moore Stephens Consulting (MSC),  has set himself the challenge of running 12 marathons in one year to raise money for Brain Tumour UK.

Graham Spicer, CEO of SolStonePlus shares his thoughts on why organisations must implement new performance management systems and establish capable business intelligence (BI) programmes to ensure financial stability in the current economic climate. Graham offers his view on how organisations can emerge from today's economic challenges in a more favourable and competitive position. Graham also discusses how BI solutions can provide that all-important competitive edge and deliver an immediate return.

A majority of companies in the UK and Ireland are likely to increase their IT budgets next year, according to survey of executives by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Data without any context isn’t all that useful. Unfortunately, most of the data that we do collect in the enterprise has little to no context.
To compensate for this, IT organizations have been investing billions, maybe even trillions, of dollars in data warehouses and business intelligence applications. We are collecting more data than ever, which in turn is in straining not only our ability to make sense of that information, but also our storage budgets. What if we took an entirely different approach to collecting data in the first place that was inherently more efficient in terms of assigning context to information? That’s the strategic goal of a G2 project that Jeff Jonas, IBM distinguished engineer and chief scientist for Entity Analytics, is working on.

At least a 1% business improvement is possible simply by applying business intelligence, according to Mike Gilliland of AutoHouse Technologies, says Canadian Underwriter.

Next week, Microsoft will be revealing details of a new development tool, codenamed Velocity, that speeds the performance of enterprise and web applications. A session at the Professional Developer’s Conference will be dedicated to the new tool.

Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do. Or do without." That adage from the Great Depression is making a comeback these days among corporations that are digging deep to maintain profitability using business tools they already have in-house.

The National Offender Management Service must “get its act together” and collect proper data on prison maintenance, according to the Committee of Public Accounts.

Santander has said its standardised IT platform will deliver £180 million savings in the UK in the next two years.

Very few of us in the Business Intelligence world have any formal qualifications in the subject, mainly because when we started our careers such courses simply didn’t exist.  

The promise of unified communications technology is a single, homogenous platform for all digital communications. But while technologies that bridge the divide between IP-based and mobile networks are widely (if not cheaply) available for most organisations, there is a glaring disunity at the heart of their communications infrastructure.