iMovo announces new partnership with Planday
iMovo, today announced its partnership with Planday, the online platform that helps businesses manage the logistics of their staff. With Planday, shift-based companies can easily create and share a schedule, communicate with employees, and handle HR processes.
Three reasons why the human touch still matters to customers
In the digital era, convenience, speed and accuracy are kings. Today’s customers don't have to call you in the middle of the night to know more about your product. All they have to do is access your website and collect the information for themselves. At the end of the day, we are still human and automation or digital platforms can never replace that completely. In fact, here are some reasons why businesses still need to incorporate the human touch in the way they serve customers.
BI Analytic Tools Help Business Organisations
Business organisations have been collecting customer data since time immemorial; whether on clay tablets, papyrus and subsequently paper. With the advent of computerisation most business organisations found themselves maintaining electronic systems designed and built to store and accumulate ever-growing amounts of raw customer data. Due to the way computer applications were then designed, it was not always easy to aggregate different systems, and the data they respectively stored, in an attempt to construct a single, unified, view of the customer.
Business Discovery – Business Intelligence Made Relevant
Business Intelligence has been evolving , like many other areas of technology, new entrants are challenging the status quo and have been fuelling a new paradigm in the way BI is used and deployed in ever smaller organisations...
New and updated: Tableau 10.4
Tableau 10.4 is here! Save time and reduce mistakes by using the best data for your analysis.
From discussions with visual snapshots to data source recommendations, Tableau 10.4 helps you speed up your journey to data discovery.
Five ways in which big data analytics is changing the current business environment
Today, the term 'big-data’ has become widely popular. It is essentially a collection of large volumes of complex data that cannot be processed using the traditional approach. This is where businesses started using big-data analytics which uses modern computational methods for fast and efficient data processing. Big-data analytics are changing businesses in a big way. Take a look at how it is revolutionizing the current business trends.
The strategic advantages of business analytics
In the world of web 2.0 and industry 4.0, organizations that are flexible when it comes to adopting new technologies and changing their business model are better equipped to grow sustainably than their rigid counterparts. Business analytics is one such source of strategic value; converting data into actionable insights and profitable actions.
Tableau’s upcoming updates
Tableau has recently announced that the upcoming release of Tableau 10.4 will be the last version of Tableau Desktop, Tableau Reader, and Tableau Public to work on 32-bit operating systems. If your computer runs on a 32-bit operating system we have bad news for you: When released, Tableau 10.5 will no longer be able to function on these systems. On the other hand, and on a much better note too, if you run a 64-bit operating system you should get ready to welcome a bigger and better Tableau 10.5.
The death of a master storyteller
On February 7, 2017, the world lost one of its best-known Swedish academics - Hans Rosling. One described as ‘the man in whose hands data sings’. Others described him as a ‘data guru’ and even ‘the Jedi master of data visualisation’.
Introducing Talend: Starting your Big Data journey
We’ve recently held our first Talend event, “Introducing Talend: Starting your Big Data journey”. This exclusive event brought together BI professionals from different sectors who were interested in learning how solutions such as Talend can help harness and exploit the challenges and opportunities brought about by the rise of Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT).
iMovo hosts Qlik Roundtable and Business Brunch
We've recently held our annual “Qlik Roundtable and Business Brunch” at Le Meridien Hotel in St. Julian’s. This half-day event brought together BI professionals from a broad spectrum of companies from different sectors, who were looking to learn more about Qlik and how it can help organizations grow, innovate and succeed – all through the power of visual analytics.
Data analysis: History of Maltese Football
How many matches did the Malta national football team win throughout the years? Who's the coach which helped winning most games? Which was the best year for our national team? Click through this dashboard to learn more about our football history.
Big data analytics: translating information into knowledge
The concept of Big Data has been around for a number of years now and although businesses have started to understand the importance of streamlining and analysing all the data captured and combining this with sources of data from external sources, some are still unsure about what it is and how it can be used.
The Secret Lies of Statistics
Don't trust the numbers. This is a very common advice that most people know but ignore. How many polls and ‘breakthroughs’ do you read or hear about? How many of that do you actually doubt or care enough to verify? Most probably the answer is a big ‘NONE’. This could either be because you’re too lazy to do so, do not have the time, or you just like to think that it is true.