Tag: Data Visualisation
Getting the most from Power BI – Attend a User Group
August 5, 2019
Ian Stuart, Principle Consultant, Altis UK I have been attending the London Power BI User Group for a few years now and I heartily recommend going along to it or to your local one. Mary Fealty was the main presenter at the last event and she described the London meetup as “the biggest on …
Learn the art of Storytelling with Data
September 6, 2018
Learn the art of Storytelling with Data, presented by Amazon best selling author, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. For the first time in Auckland, Sydney & Melbourne, Cole will be delivering her training. This 1-day workshop will enable you to bring data to life and use it to communicate a story to an audience, with a focus …
Project, programme, portfolio management, data and the possibilities
August 1, 2018
Ian Stuart from our London office, has again been featured on the APM website, outlining the outcomes from his latest webinar. I recently presented at an APM webinar entitled “Taking portfolio benefits management to the next level with modern analytics”. The feedback was very positive – see some of the comments below: It would seem, from this …
Powering modern analytics with Power Bi
July 27, 2018
By Khai Tan, Managing Consultant Altis recently assisted BAI Communications (BAI) in Australia with the implementation of their new Reporting and Analytics Platform. On the new platform, we delivered their first Power BI dashboard to monitor Digital Television (DTV) service performance at all Broadcast Australia (a BAI communications company) tower sites. Information is presented using ArcGIS maps …
Portfolio benefits management and modern analytics
July 12, 2018
Creating value out of data is one of the highest priorities in business across all industries and services in the private and public sectors alike. Ian Stuart of our London office gives an overview in a blog and webinar he recently presented for the Association for Project Management . Current state Data and analytics is a …
HR reporting made easy
March 1, 2018
Having recently completed several HR reporting projects in Canberra, we believe there are still a number of agencies that are struggling to deliver timely insights into their workforce. The path that some agencies have been taking in order to produce HR reporting goes like this: Teams initially try to use the HR system for reporting. …
What we can do with data
November 15, 2017
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 month, showing the possibilities that are opened up with good electronic flight logging. His personal flight logging dashboard is insightful and has attracted very positive …
Why Data Visualisation is Great for your Business
November 8, 2017
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 visualisation strategy contributes to and has the correct impact on your business. Most likely, as an organisation, you are collecting swathes of …
Case Study – Rightship gains clearer insight into a sea of data
October 30, 2017
Read our latest case study and see how we helped RightShip review and improve their data visualisation tools.
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 …
TDWI Conference 2017
August 23, 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 topics were covered, with some of the hotter ones being around: Self-service BI & Analytics Data Science & Advanced Analytics …
Future Plans for the Visual Business Intelligence Workshops with Stephen Few
August 16, 2017
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 decided that it is time for him to take a step back from teaching, and has passed the torch to his colleague Nick Desbarats …
The Truth about Paragliding and Hang Gliding Incidents
May 18, 2017
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 published our analysis of incidents in “Skywings” – the membership magazine for the British Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association (BHPA). We looked at some …
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 …
Six takeaways from the TDWI Conference
October 19, 2016
James Black from our Sydney office recently attended the TDWI conference “Analytics across the Enterprise” earlier this month in San Diego, California. Here he shares his key takeaways from the conference. The main theme of the conference was developing insight-driven organisations that succeed in using analytics to create real business impact. As with all …
Power BI – Tips for a successful rollout
August 25, 2016
The Power BI toolset from Microsoft is changing the game in the data visualisation space. With major monthly releases building on the functionality and rapidly incorporating new features, combined with its competitive pricing we are seeing many clients dipping their toes into the world of Power BI. Altis surveyed some of our Power BI users …
First Look at Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
July 12, 2016
Michael Betterton from our Canberra Office talks about some of the changes in Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 SSRS and how you can leverage these. With the recent release of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 in June this year, many people have posed the question of how has Microsoft’s Business Intelligence (BI) Stack changed in this release, …
Keeping the Power on-premise
June 15, 2016
Microsoft PowerBI generates a lot of interest, as we see customers lining up to give it a try. The combination of superb visualisation, self-service approach and an attractive price-tag make PowerBI a worthy candidate for analytics. However, for some customers, the enthusiasm is soon replaced with disappointment when they learn that PowerBI is a cloud-based …
Enterprise Reporting in a Changing World
March 9, 2016
Gartner’s decision to separate their magic quadrant BI report highlights the changing uses of Business Intelligence in organisations. With modern user-led software is the role of the BI professional going to disappear? The world of Business Intelligence and Business Analytics has been evolving over the last few years, an evolution which reached another peak recently …