To evolve or stagnate? That is the question!

Hamlet’s soliloquy, in the Shakespearean play that bears his name, essentially questions the value of life. “To be, or not to be, that is the question”, he begins as he waxes lyrical about our powerlessness: that living is a passive state, subject to the whims of fortune; and dying an active one whereby we reclaim our control. Yet, potent as his melancholic speech is, I proffer an alternative to our […]

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UDAP or CDP? Which will you choose?

Customer Data Platforms (CDP) are on the rise. Perhaps you are even one of the 78% of surveyed companies that the 2018 Forbes Report identified as having or in the process of developing a CDP. The desire for it is obvious: to use the myriad of digital customer touch points to extract value and insights that, for example, increase revenue or retention through an enhanced customer experience. The promise a CDP […]

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The ultimate mother: supply chain intelligence

Regardless of sex, as a supply chain manager you need to be the ultimate mother at all times. You need to know everyone’s schedule (and not just your kids’!); ensure that everybody and everything is where they need to be and when; clean up (more often than not) unpleasant messes; plan for every contingency – even the incredibly unlikely; change it all at the drop of a hat; and carry […]

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Manufacturing + intelligence = magnificence

  A production manager’s headache As a production manager in manufacturing, there is increasing pressure from the executives higher up to increase efficiency, reduce costs and provide feedback on measurable outcomes such as CPUs and KPIs. Whilst you may have sensors on your equipment and some data available, it’s a schlep to bring it all together, analyse it and generate reports that provide a comprehensive view of your facility in […]

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The power of graph

Are you struggling to achieve your company goals with your existing technology? Do you want to ask complex questions of your data and receive timely insights and intelligence? In the “Top 10 Data and Analytics Technology Trends for 2020” report, Gartner states, “Finding relationships in combinations of diverse data, using graph techniques at scale, will form the foundation of modern data and analytics.” Gartner also surveyed companies about the use […]

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No data point is an island: the power of graph!

In 1929, Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy proposed the concept of six degrees of separation: “that any two individuals could be connected through at most five acquaintances”. This idea grew from a belief that the modern world was “shrinking” due to advances in travel and communication, which meant that friendship networks were expanding. And this was decades before Facebook! Academics, from mathematicians to psychologists have explored this hypothesis in relation to […]

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Hiding in plain sight

“I can’t see you, so you can’t see me!” Do you remember that childhood misconception? The idea that if you close your eyes then you’re invisible. Unfortunately, fraudsters are not that naïve and nor are you. So when it comes to fraud just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s not there. In a data rich environment with millions of transactions a day, it’s all too easy for criminals […]

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50 million data transactions a day with Cassandra

We were privileged to be invited by the DevOps.com community to discuss Locstat’s unified data analytics platform at a webinar sponsored by our partners DataStax. The three main topics were: How did Locstat decide what open source technologies to use? Why we decided to use DataStax Enterprise? How to scale with zero downtime?     It was great to tell the world about our journey and show how we deliver next-generation solutions to our […]

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The impact of COVID-19 on retail | Why customer loyalty can’t be ignored

Are you getting the necessary insights into your customers to ensure you are maximising their customer experience? How are you tracking your loyalty programme? Are you preventing customer churn? Do you have a customer 360 view of your customers? And what of Covid-19? How did that impact on your customers and your rewards program? Locstat, along with its partner iOCO recently did an exciting webinar discussing “The impact of Covid-19 […]

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iOCO partners with Locstat

Locstat is delighted to announce its partnership with iOCO : Technology solutions leader iOCO has partnered with Locstat, a company specialising in graph-powered AI and event processing for augmented intelligence, to bring clients a cost-effective data analysis and visualisation solution. The partnership will enable iOCO to add this unique solution to its comprehensive data offering, while expanding Locstat’s reach internationally. Varsha Ramesar, Cluster Executive for Data and Analytics at iOCO, […]

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