Successful M&As require watertight plans for organisations to metamorphose into data-tight IT infrastructures. Merger plans need to include comprehensive risk considerations and knowledge about the parties’ current infrastructures. They must be executed with...
Online retailers gather a wealth of data about their customers which offers great potential to optimise sales, to the extent of being able to surmise not only that a customer is pregnant, but the due date.1 A retailer can then offer appropriate products, although the...
Germaine Greer stated on Radio 4 that e-books ‘should cost pennies’1, but is this consumer ideal a realistic possibility? Ms. Greer proffered that digital publishing doesn’t require the bulk of traditional publishing costs, perhaps unaware that printing...
Skeuomorphs; the user-interfaces or their icons that borrow from the physical items they’ve rendered obsolete, are arguably applied not only to digital graphical design but structural design of digital publications in the migration from traditional print. A...
The recent announcement that eBooks now outsell printed volumes has been interpreted as a pessimistic outlook for the publishing industry¹. But rather than a “death knell”, this is a signal that consumers are ringing in changes to which publishers must rapidly...
A question such as “Would the proposed HS2 rail project represent the best use of government budget?” soon attracts a range of qualitative opinions. Analytical data modelling offers clearer answers around the quantitative results that can be expected and the extent to...
Influential Software, the UK-based IBM & SAP BI Gold analytics partner, is delighted to announce the acquisition of the IBM Cognos division of Intelligent Solutions (Midlands) Ltd. The division’s client base, contracts and staff have transitioned across with...
NHS bodies are becoming more efficient, and saving money through the use of Business Intelligence tools. At Influential we have a long history of assisting NHS Trusts & CCGs in re-engineering processes and analysing clients’ data which is improving the...
Influential were approached by a large County Council to undertake a “root and branch” inspection of its IBM Cognos estate to eek out any apparent and potential problems, and ensure the BI estate runs optimally. The specification of the works required Influential to...
A leading provider of insurance and reinsurance in the Lloyds market wanted to improve its core banking systems to meet the needs of internal and regulatory reporting. To meet the requirement to deliver reports to the business within a very tight timeframe, we were...
