Data collection has been a general practice for most companies ever since the first customers agreed to pass on their names and addresses with a purchase. This information was then stored in a database and used primarily to keep track of operations or forecast needs. Today, both the sources and volume of the data collected…
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Big data – Time to pool our resources?
It’s time the housing sector raised its game on data, creating its own shared big data resource, pooling data resources from across the sector for shared insights, data-led innovation and the development of new tools. But it shouldn’t stop at existing sources of data, and if we’re going to make the most if it, we…
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Gentoo’s Streetwise makes new business appointment
Streetwise, a commercial arm of Gentoo, has appointed Bryan Healy as its new business development manager to expand its operations in Scotland and the surrounding areas. Originally developed by Gentoo, Streetwise is a commercially-available, web-based application for front line staff to monitor and track antisocial behaviour and other tenancy breaches. Healy was previously a strategic…
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Bernicia opts for Intuitive & ProcessFlows for analytics & BI
Bernicia Group has implemented a visual analytics and business intelligence system from Intuitive Business Intelligence for better performance management. The Intuitive Dashboards system was installed by its partner ProcessFlows for around £25,000. The BI system extracts key information from Bernicia’s SQL databases for housing and CRM as well as from a number of spreadsheets, giving…
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Generating insight through big data… And how polyglot persistence can help
MapR’s chief data engineer, Michael Hausenblas, looks at how organisations approach the task of generating insights and how emerging technologies can break the notion of one-hat-fits-all relational databases. Do the following examples sound familiar? You set off in your car to the airport to catch a flight and run into road works on the motorway…
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CIH launches new online learning service
The Chartered Institute of Housing is launching a new online learning service, based on its existing distance learning programmes to make gaining housing qualifications more interactive and interesting, and to make sure the qualifications continue to be relevant. The new service features a streamlined suite of courses, updated course content and increased support for students,…
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