In this age of technology we have so many new ways to monitor and put surveillance on our employees. The question is, how do we know we are doing a good thing and not actually damaging our business? Monitoring prevents mistakes being repeated. Let’s take for example data audit. If we have a way to […]
Have you ever had an system crash that has sent your IT employees running mad? An enterprise organisation encounters failures, technical issues and human errors all the time. But real disaster strikes when these issues cannot be solved effeciently or effectively. Unfortunately that is the case more times than not even in the wealthiest, most […]
Ahh the concept of data quality. So important, yet elusive to so many. It may seem like data is the only buzzword you hear these days. Big data, data governance, data strategy, and of course data quality are buzzwords flying around big time. But there’s a good reason for this, and it isn’t just hype. […]
Towards the end of 2013, the online retail giant Amazon, created a storm with their apparent trial of drones that will transform the online industry by having newly ordered goods in the hands of their customers within thirty minutes. We even covered the field service and data auditing aspects of this story in one of […]
It’s 2014, which means a fresh new year for your organization, and for all the challenges that come with running successful, efficient organizations. But hopefully you are refreshed and rejuvenated after the holiday season, enjoyed a few cocktails, some laughs, and probably some cold weather, and now you are ready to get started on making […]
If only there was a magic dashboard that could show you every little thing that is going on in your organization at every second of the day. If only you could see what each of your business users are working on, where your field techs are, what marketing campaigns are engaging with customers, what costs you’re ncurring, what […]
We have decided to celebrate Halloween this year on the Realise Data Systems blog by going over an issue that can really give organizations the willies, BAD DATA. Most organizations don’t realize that bad data is the base problem in every project. Bad data is anything ranging from missing values, malformed records, and improper file […]
The world is changing rapidly when it comes to technology. We’ve said it before but that is because it is true. According to Brian Solis in “The Future of Business,” over the past 10 years, 40% of Fortune 500 companies have been replaced. What does this mean? It means that some businesses haven’t kept up […]
While businesses these days can’t stop talking about big data, whether they understand it or not, you might be shocked to know that the concept of big data has been around for a while. That’s because humans have been gathering and storing information for, well, thousands of years (around 4100-3800 BCE the first information storage seems […]
According to cloud expert Jared Wray, the CTO of Tier 3, “businesses need to move the cloud, simply because they are at a competitive disadvantage if they don’t. Companies that figure out how to harness the transformative power of cloud infrastructure, as well as platform services, will run circles around those that fail to do […]