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Why is your documentation getting out of date?
I have frequently started working on products where there was little up-to-date documentation. You usually only notice it as you go. You might find that one part of the analysis does not describe the...
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The beer coaster analysis
It’s Monday morning and the daily scrum just took place. An analyst got the task to dig into a problem. He eagerly starts working on it at his desk, digging deep into the issue trying to make it...
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Combining the power of R and D3.js
According to wikipedia, the amount of unstructured data might account for more than 70%-80% of all data in organisations. Because everyone wants to find hidden treasures in these mountains of...
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Search for value through simplification
I’m an architect. As most architects, I like to design things and conceptualize ideas. But a common pitfall for us architects is that we design things that are very clear for… other architects. Other...
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Operational Intelligence: Splunk vs ELK
Do you know what your application is doing? Is it happily crunching along or is it slowly getting consumed in a blazing ball of fire? In the age of services, not every application has a UI to show you...
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5 Questions on Information Management (AE Foyer 2015)
There are a lot of buzzwords around Information Management these days. Carlo Wouters helps you get a clear view on the value of your data and its untapped potential in these 5 Questions and the June...
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Using Talend and MongoDB to process and store tweets in a lossless form
With temperatures soaring (or in some areas storms approaching), it is an excellent time to close the windows, boot the laptop and brush up on your information management skills. This blog post is a...
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Customer Insight at the Heart of Your Company
In my last blog post I talked about the strategic and competitive advantages that can be delivered by Business Analytics but that a lot of companies are still struggling to apply Analytics and actually...
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Who is my customer and why should I care?
Have you ever wondered how your customers are behaving on a grand scale? Do you know which customers are most valuable to you and which customers represent an undiscovered opportunity? You might have a...
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Which Customers Will Be Leaving Me? (And How To Do Something About It).
This is the last post in a series of three about the added value of Analytics in Marketing. The first post, by my colleague Bram Vanschoenwinkel, gave an overview of a number of Analytics techniques...
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What will 2016 mean for your company, business model and your customers?
The world around us is moving at an ever faster pace and disrupting forces for your market are lurking around the corner. At AE, we combine all of our skills and competencies to find solutions to help...
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How Analytics can help you uncover the knowledge hidden in your documents
Organizations often possess a lot of data that’s being stored in unstructured formats. Most of the time, this involves data that people were able to enter as free text, such as e-mails, call center...
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How finance organizations can benefit from an innovative technology like...
For finance companies that often execute international payments and transactions, it’s worth looking at Blockchain, a technology that simplifies the payment and transaction process significantly. Let’s...
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Ingesting data with Spark using a custom Hadoop FileInputFormat
Together with a large organization, we’re building a platform that presents company data to its data scientists so they can use it to develop innovative applications.To handle huge amounts of data,...
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People Analytics: Because HR is a numbers game, too!
We live in a talent economy and now more than ever, companies are realizing that with great people comes great business success. With the rise of ‘Great Place to Work’ contests and the popularity of...
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Integrating applications: Bridge the gap with a functional specification
So you need to connect an application to an external system. Developers and IT architects know how to cover the technical side, with for example SOAP web services, REST APIs, or stored procedures. But...
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