Data Matters

Recent Posts

• How to communicate amid a storm of data fatigue and misinformation

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 24 Dec 2020

This is a guest blog by Andy Cotgreave, technology evangelist, Tableau Charts: they're all over the news. The NHS chief executive mocked others’ charts in their briefings; the science committee ...

• Initial thoughts on prospective Salesforce acquisition of Slack

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 26 Nov 2020

The FT’s ever-excellent, San Francisco-based Richard Waters has reported on a prospective acquisition of Slack by Salesforce. Slack, notes Waters, has evolved from being a chat app to a broader ...

• CTRL, ALT, REPEAT – Why short-sighted digitisation strategies may see businesses revert to analogue

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 20 Nov 2020

This is a guest blogpost by Stuart Bernard, Iron Mountain’s VP of Digital Solutions. In it he writes about a new study suggesting Covid-driven digitisation of business processes could be ...

• Software: to build or not to build? That is the question

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 13 Nov 2020

This is a guest blogpost by Kevin Hurd, Founder & CEO, Digital Hive. In 2015 Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella famously said: “every business will be a software business”. And it’s hard to argue ...

• British businesses need to be prepared for post-Brexit changes to our data protection laws

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 28 Oct 2020

This is a guest blogpost by Ben Tomlinson, Personally Identifiable Information Security Officer and Marketing Manager at Atlas Cloud. Data is arguably now the most valuable resource on earth; the ...

• Welcome to the world of pervasive ERP

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 15 Oct 2020

This is a guest blogpost by Claus Jepsen, chief technology officer, Unit4 For decades now, users of enterprise resource planning software have been trained to believe that all the action must take ...

• Location intelligence: Geospatial technology’s vital role in the UK’s housing crisis

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 29 Sep 2020

This is a guest blogpost by Stuart Bonthrone, Chief Executive, Esri UK. The UK’s housing crisis has reached a crunch point over recent years - and it’s now estimated that a massive 345,000 new ...

• It’s time to get on the low-code fast train

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 29 Sep 2020

This is a guest blogpost by Gaurav Dhillon, CEO, SnapLogic. Low-code technologies are not new. They’ve been part of IT’s application development kit for decades. But in recent years the adoption of ...

• Exploiting enhanced data management to create value in the ‘new normal’

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 29 Sep 2020

This is a guest blogpost by Stuart Bernard, Vice President, Global Digital Solutions, EMEA, Iron Mountain. COVID-19 has turned businesses and economies upside down, changing the world irrevocably. ...

• Ethics of AI algorithms under examination

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 24 Aug 2020

Sebastian Klovig Skelton’s article in this week’s CW ezine issue, ‘Auditing for algorithmic discrimination’ could hardly be more timely. The fall-out from the algorithmic exams fiascos of recent ...

• Data-driven digital transformation: five technology initiatives for the age of Covid-19

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 28 Jul 2020

This is a guest blogpost by Rich Pugh, co-founder and chief data scientist, Mango Solutions The things we do not know about Covid-19 seem almost endless. There are no clear answers yet to some of ...

• Making efficiency the new normal: end-to-end automation in financial services

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 21 Jul 2020

This is a guest blogpost by James Loft, COO, Rainbird. If 2020 has been anything so far, ‘unpredictable’ is as good a descriptor as any. The financial services sector has suffered disrupted supply ...

• The automation revolution is happening now

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 21 Jul 2020

This is a guest blogpost by Jason Kingdon, Chairman & CEO of Blue Prism And it's raining RPA [Robotic Process Automation]… IBM's announcement that they are acquiring a Brazilian Robotic Process ...

• The UK government’s weaponization of data analytics

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 14 Jul 2020

Data analytics seems to have emerged as a cure-all for the current Conservative government. Indeed, it is being positioned as a critical element in the wider revolution of Whitehall that Dominic ...

• Why Digital Transformation relies on Continuous Intelligence

  Brian McKenna - Business Applications Editor 10 Jul 2020

This is a guest blogpost by Bruno Kurtic, co-founder and vice president of strategy and solutions, Sumo Logic I recently had a conversation with someone who tried to argue that digital ...