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Are you realising the full potential SQL Server?
One of our Sydney consultants, Dawie Kruger, shares some of his thoughts on the features and functionality available in Microsoft SQL Server that he feels are being underutilised by organisations. I...
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Will Microsoft Azure meet your real-time analytic needs?
Sara Handel, one of our Melbourne consultants, recently undertook a Proof of Concept for real-time streaming analytics on network sensor data for a utility client using Microsoft Azure Streaming. In...
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Altis celebrates International Women’s Day
Altis joined FiTT (Females in IT & Telecommunications) at their Celebrating the Digital Frontier luncheon as part of events celebrating International Women’s Day. We were excited to be joined by...
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Our experiment with Sentiment Analysis on Yammer
Big data is pervasive today but many organisations are still struggling to understand where it fits into their technology and business landscape and to define a suitable use case to get started with...
View ArticleHow do you measure progress in your data and analytics journeys?
Altis have been helping our clients advance their data journeys towards making better use of information to drive efficiencies, profitability and other tangible outcomes for 19 years. We’ve seen how...
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AWS Summit: moving up the stack and technology convergence
Our AWS Practice Lead Guillaume Jaudouin attended the latest AWS Sydney Summit last week. Read on to hear Guillaume’s key takeaways from this event. As is becoming usual, the AWS Sydney Summit was...
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The world of Bots
We are starting to see the real-world application of artificial intelligence and in particular Bots becoming more common in the business world. Often when meeting with our clients the conversation...
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Altis recognised as one of Asia’s best workplaces for second year running
Altis Consulting ranked 13th in this year’s Great Place to Work list of best workplaces in Asia Altis Consulting has been named by Great Places to Work as one of the Best Workplaces in Asia in the...
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Altis obtains two additional AWS Service Delivery Accreditations
After obtaining AWS Redshift Service Delivery Accreditation earlier this year, Altis has obtained a further two accreditations for AWS EMR and AWS Lambda. Altis was the first AWS Consulting Partner in...
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Altis Chatbot
In our previous blog on “The World of Bots” we discussed some use cases for Bots. In this blog we will talk about a Bot that we created internally, the Altis Chatbot and some of the lessons we learnt...
View ArticleThe Truth about Paragliding and Hang Gliding Incidents
Ian Stuart, one of our London based consultants, used the BHPA’s incident database to reveal some interesting insights. Free flying is exhilarating but it comes with a health warning. We recently...
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Who owns your data strategy?
Our UK Country Manager, Peter Hopwood, was recently interviewed for an article “Who owns your data strategy and how do you define it effectively” written by Michael Gilmour from Michael Page...
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Big Data Navigational Aids
Altis’ CEO, John Hoffman, shares some insights into how to successfully navigate the Big Data landscape. I am sure many of you flinched when you first saw this graphic on the Big Data landscape when it...
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Thoughts from Introduction to Data Science – Melbourne – June 2017
A team in Melbourne recently completed our Introduction to Data Science course with Altis’ Head of Data Science – Isaac Reyes. In this interview Richard Marris, a consultant from our Altis Canberra...
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G-Cloud 9
UK public Sector Organisations can now buy Services from Altis from the Digital Marketplace as part of the new G-Cloud 9 Framework. Altis are very excited to be able to now offer services on this...
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Installing Ubuntu Bash for Windows 10
Anandraj Jagadeesan, a Managing Consultant with Altis in Sydney, shares his experience of installing Ubuntu Bash in a Windows 10 environment. For the last few years as a big data developer I have been...
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Big data on AWS – a project success story
An Altis project team in Sydney went live this week, with a new big data solution on AWS for a family restaurant chain with over 900 locations across Australia. What made this a big data project and a...
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Installing Docker on Ubuntu Bash for Windows
Following on from his last blog, Anandraj Jagadeesan from our Sydney office, provides steps to install Docker on Ubuntu Bash for Windows. Background Docker’s ability to provide applications with...
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Future Plans for the Visual Business Intelligence Workshops with Stephen Few
Altis Consulting have been proud training partners of Perceptual Edge and Stephen Few since 2010. Over the years, we have hosted over 20 workshops, teaching upwards of 1,100 students. Stephen has...
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TDWI Conference 2017
Earlier this month, Richard Roose, one of our senior Sydney consultants, attended the TDWI conference in Anaheim. He gives us a recap of the main topics below. As you might expect, a broad spectrum of...
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Best Place to Work 2017
This is the 8th consecutive year that Altis has been recognised as one of the 50 Best Places to Work in Australia “This is a testament to our unwavering focus on our ethos of ‘Connecting with...
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Spark on Windows 10
The third in a series of blogs from Anandraj Jagadeesan, talks us through downloading Apache Spark on Windows 10, using the new Ubuntu environment. About Spark Apache Spark is a fast and...
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Image Analytics with Machine Learning
by Jeremiah Mannings Image analytics, deep learning and neural networks are terms thrown around all day on platforms like LinkedIn, but what can they really do for your business? Here at Altis, we have...
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Effort and BI – Is the Focus Shifting?
Neil Randall, a consultant in our London office, shares his thoughts on how technology is shifting the focus in the way data warehouse and BI solutions are being delivered. Platforms such as Microsoft...
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Watson Conversation WCS Intent design
By Jeremiah Mannings Consultant in Melbourne Introduction This series of articles is designed to offer a useful overview of the capabilities and functions of the Watson Conversational API to use in...
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Case Study – Rightship gains clearer insight into a sea of data
Read our latest case study and see how we helped RightShip review and improve their data visualisation tools. Rightship, Pilbara ports shipping photography, Western Australia.
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Part 2: Watson Conversation Entity & Dialog Design
The second in a 3 part blog series by Melbourne consultant Jeremiah Mannings Introduction This is the second part in a series of Watson Conversation API articles that aims to cover the design and...
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Why Data Visualisation is Great for your Business
By Olu Omodara – Altis London office At its essence, data visualisation is the effort to render data in an accessible, visual, consumable format. This understanding is key to ensuring that your data...
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Using Account Intelligence to streamline your Financial Reporting
by Garry Farrell, Sydney Consultant On the surface financial reporting may look simple. However, have you ever tried to create a profit and loss statement or balance sheet using a hierarchy?...
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What we can do with data
In a follow up to his previous article, analysing BHPA (British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association) incidents, Ian Stuart from our London office had another article published in Skywings this...
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Altis – Pay equity ambassadors
Altis has been a pay equity ambassador since 2015. To eliminate the gender pay gap at Altis, we started with a survey by role of our consulting workforce back in 2014. We’re committed to closing the...
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Credit Controllers are Data Analysts too
Ian Stuart from our London office, has recently had an article published in the Credit Control Journal, one of the world’s leading research journals dedicated to the advancement of asset risk...
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AWS re:invent 2017 – Data and Analytics Announcements.
Every year, we take a look at the avalanche of announcements made at AWS re:invent and explore the possibilities offered by new Big Data and Analytics products and services. Following the trend from...
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Watson Conversation Part 3: Further Tips & Tricks
By Jeremiah Mannings This is a short article following on from the previous parts relating to intent, entity, and dialog design, check those out if this is the first you are reading! The links are...
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Amazon’s Machine Learning platform SageMaker has been released – First thoughts
One of our Melbourne Data Scientists, Jeremiah Mannings, shares his thoughts on the recently released Amazon Machine Learning platform, SageMaker. AWS has finally released SageMaker!...
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