Important reading for Insurers in Nigel Walsh's review of his 2016 Insurtech forecasts and new 2017 ideas.

I would add one other major...

Experian adds Vulnerability to Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity and Value.

1. Hadoop's hype waned
2. Real value was derived from big data
3. Data warehouse became cool again
4. The cloud soared high
5. The rise of Kafka

Some...

Over budget, over time and under spec is a common complaint of badly planned IT projects and digital transformation is no different. 

Neil Mackin has published a thoughtful article on these important pillars of digital transformation.

To these I would add that these are...

If anything Local Government has been more innovative and proactive than central government. Luckily, digital transformation covers the...

Same word, different meanings! Not as bad as "big data! but looking in from the outside I see the fog of uncertainty.

The article below...

The world's first & only!  Great to read of this British innovation from Oxford Nanopore,

You cannot underestimate the the value...

The speed of innovation at Amazon just gets faster and faster causing yet another cloud competitor, CISCO,  to shut down its own...

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is impacting insurance today and will increasingly be the competitive differentiator. Start fast and

Positive picture of lives freed from the drudgery of today countered by a dark shadow- an underlayer of society people missed out by the...

Current UK concerns about elderly people , hospital bed allocation  and funding shortages for home care & care homes put...

"Stop digitising shit processes"

and make sure you understand your customers' experiences.

Following that advice has lead a large...

Even constrained by French privacy & data laws this project shows how analysing more (relevant data) helped predict hospital...

Day by day we read of the strains on hospitals, ambulance services, social services, care homes, social housing as they face the squeeze...

However accurate and timely the insight we must not fall victim to the temptation to jump to conclusions. The best analytics tell you what

With airbnb competing for room nights with hotels you'd think they would all enable self-service and allow travellers to walk straight to...

Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2017 includes digital technology platforms that mesh together  People, Intelligent Apps...

Dresner Advisory Services BI Market Studies always a valuable reference and named Zoomdata as No.1 for Big Data Analytics- congratulations.

Telcos trapped by legacy system and complex value chains they have invested large amounts in the physical networks leaving little for...

The simple term "algorithm" covers a wide range of techniques leading to the varying, and often misleading, labels given to various...

WhereasAmazonwas once the bastion of startups who tended to use it until they were big enough to launch their own data centers, an...

We all know the big question about BlockChain is not whether, but when and with whom for what. The  Insurance world already feels...

Very often not new but existing, inaccessible data. Some estimates point to over 80% of an organisation's data remaining outside the...

Bots fine for certain insurances but most times a combination of machine learning, homo sapien cognitive powers & customer...

The ever increasing capabilities of machine learning and AI mean that is often a greater pleasure to get meaningful answers from a...

Extracting value from customer data means CMOs can optimise customer loyalty and life-time revenues. Yet this article posits the opposite.

Erudite discussion around pros and cons of machine learning & AI versus human cognition. In this case by a rare kind of person- an...