There are many types of software available for what is called “Financial Planning and Analytics” or FP&A software. A brief trip to Google shows 3.6 million returns for the search term. What’s interesting is that many of the companies who show up at the top of the...
In this article, we look to answer the question of ‘what is big data?’ looking at all aspects of history and applications.
How many of us have sat in a meeting when vast arrays of numbers are put up in a gripping stream of PowerPoint presentations either analysing the past or foretelling the future? I’d suggest that this is a scene that plays out very often up and down the land, currently...
As our business gradually expands, we ask ourselves why has no-one tried connecting analysts to software? One reason is that is that the core of our product, the database, is an original invention. Another reason occurred to us the other day as we heard about the...
Are you thinking of migrating to a new database? We all know that, whatever size of house we have, sooner or later we’ll run out of space. At least that’s what will happen to most of us, except those infuriating people who are so well organised that they take time to...
It is perhaps unnecessary to point out that there are problems with spreadsheets – others have done so better than I can – for instance here or here. So how do we go about ensuring your spreadsheets are future proofed? But if spreadsheets are so dangerous, why do...
Nineteenth century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker supposedly said “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. To prove the level of the unknown in marketing, this quote has also been attributed to Viscount Leverhulme...