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03 Feb 21

Data Catalog an Indispensable Tool in The Age of Analytics

Data is the life blood of all business. Yet data is only valuable when it can easily transform into information that will empower your business to greater heights. Let’s face it. Not all businesses have the best data management approach. Many are still using spreadsheets. The real tragedy is that they don’t even realise what […]

02 Feb 21

Announcing New Microsoft Partnership

PMsquare is pleased to announce our Gold Partnership reflecting the close working relationship we have with Microsoft. This also partnership also reflects the work we are providing to our existing and new clients on Microsoft’s Data and Analytics platforms. Gold Partnership is the highest-level attainment for Microsoft in their partner network and gives our clients […]

02 Feb 21

Connected Planning shields Onduline from the unexpected in a volatile business environment

Many thanks to the Anaplan Partner Community and Onduline for their story Lightweight roofing leader Onduline needed to better plan and manage finance and supply chain operations—spanning eight factories and dozens of markets—to deliver maximum value in today’s complex business environment. With Anaplan, the company has a real-time view of financial, inventory, and manufacturing KPIs […]

29 Jan 21

Moving to a Value-Driven Supply Chain

By Brent Gorham, Principle Supply Chain Consultant, Cornerstone The transformation to a value-oriented supply chain results in a more collaborative, agile and responsive supply chain that benefits both partners and customers. The transition from a traditional cost-based to a value-oriented supply chain is a necessary step for organisations to maximise performance and profitability. The value-oriented […]

29 Jan 21

The Story of your Data leads to Efficient Decision Making

Understanding the Story of your Data leads to Efficient Decision Making It’s a fact. Organisations are generating enormous amounts of information through their data. Factor in multiple systems, various functions, and different departments, and you quickly see how even the smallest business is now producing vast amounts of complex and interconnected facts, figures, records and […]

27 Jan 21

Bringing it Together to take charge of the ‘I’ in your IT

IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog (WKC) One product that could assist with this is IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog (WKC) which will turn your knowledge and analytics assets into a cloud-based enterprise metadata repository that lets you catalog your knowledge and analytics assets. This includes machine learning models and structured and unstructured data wherever they reside, so that they can be easily accessed […]

27 Jan 21

The Value in Understanding the DNA of your Data

The ‘What’ and ‘Why’ of Metadata Put simply, metadata is the DNA of your data, down to a granular level of audit trail and user history and defines the physical characteristics of each data element. It will give you information on data usage, data ownership and user access, and will also explain why the data […]

26 Jan 21

Why you need product information management

Product information management (PIM) is a subset of the overarching Master Data Management (MDM) space, and it’s primary use is to help you create a master copy of product information. In this context, “products” could be the actual physical products which you sell in stores, or it could also be “soft” products, such as credit cards, loans or mortgages. […]

09 Dec 20

Overcoming Data Swamps with Data Lake Governance

Big data continues to grow bigger with each passing year. In today’s digital age, the exponential growth in the amount of data produced is clear. IDC project that by 2025 80% of worldwide data will be unstructured. If you aren’t already, your business will be creating huge data lakes very soon. What is a data […]

08 Dec 20

Turbulence and the Rolling Forecast

Turbulent times caused by recent global events as well as trade fall-out have caused major impacts across the globe. The effects have been rising loan defaults, reduced liquidity and higher rates of doubtful debts among many other impacts. Priorities have often turned to maximising cash flows, cash management and optimisation of financing resources with more […]

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