Tag: Big Data
Tired of the hidden costs and limitations of your current RDBMS for Data & Analytics workloads?
July 24, 2019
Richard Roose, NSW Delivery Lead shares his views on where Snowflake fits into a Data and Analytics architecture. Whilst RDBMS’s have long been used for traditional transactional workloads (OLTP), the focus of this discussion is on their use for Data & Analytics workloads (OLAP). In a world of on-premise vs. on-premise cloud vs. …
Part 2: Watson Conversation Entity & Dialog Design
November 1, 2017
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 development of a finance-based chatbot. To check out the first article here! In this part of the series, we are going to …
Watson Conversation WCS Intent design
October 19, 2017
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 your own projects. For the next few articles, a banking/finance type demo will be used to explain the concepts. There will be a number …
Image Analytics with Machine Learning
September 25, 2017
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 been working to provide an answer to that problem. Sure, the technology is really cool, but it would be even cooler …
Best Place to Work 2017
August 30, 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 Courage, Heart, and Insight’” said John Hoffman, CEO of Altis. “We are passionate believers that an engaged team …
Big data on AWS – a project success story
July 21, 2017
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 success? Typically big data is described in terms of the 3 Vs – velocity, volume and variety. …
Big Data Navigational Aids
June 22, 2017
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 was published by Matt Turk in April. For those of you who missed it, have a look and weep. …
Altis obtains two additional AWS Service Delivery Accreditations
May 4, 2017
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 ANZ to obtain this recognition for RedShift and for EMR. In combination, these three AWS services represent the backbone of modern big data …
AWS Summit: moving up the stack and technology convergence
April 11, 2017
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 packed (6,000+ attendees), loud and intense. The keynote line up was impressive and the summit was the place to be for anyone …
How do you measure progress in your data and analytics journeys?
March 20, 2017
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 measuring current state and revisiting maturity assessments over time help an organisation prioritise and achieve their future visions. That’s why we’re excited to launch our …
Our experiment with Sentiment Analysis on Yammer
March 16, 2017
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 Big Data. At Altis, we’ve been exploring different use cases for Big Data and our team have built a Sentiment Analysis tool …