Knowledge base

Data Estate

Data Estate reframes the notion that data is no longer a byproduct or just an accidental creation of business processes or the storage of information.

Thursday, 13 December 2018

Cofinimmo optimized their budgeting process by implementing SAP BPC

Founded in 1983, Cofinimmo is today the largest listed property company in Belgium and a member of the BEL 20.

Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Predictive Maintenance based on Data Science with Microsoft BI and Azure

Sabcobel is a refrigeration company which provides cooling elements for both the retail and industrial sector.

Monday, 10 December 2018

The war on analytics talent & BICC project backlog: can data estate automation be the solution?

The war on talent is affecting most industries, but none more than the IT field. It is increasingly difficult to find quality data professionals and to hold onto these talented individuals.

Monday, 10 December 2018

Which version of Python should I use?

If you want to start a new software project today, you will likely be looking at Python for your codebase. It's easy to use and allows for quick development thanks to the many great third party libraries.

Wednesday, 5 December 2018

Standardization in case of real-time predictions

In machine learning, normalization/standardization involves feature scaling, where the features (variables) used for making predictions are scaled to the same range of values. The feature scaling process is applied in the data preprocessing step before applying any machine learning algorithm.

Friday, 9 November 2018

How can we use Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory to train our ML algorithms?

Azure Databricks is an Apache Spark-based analytics service that allows you to build end-to-end machine learning & real-time analytics solutions. Azure Databricks offers all of the components and capabilities of Apache Spark with a possibility to integrate it with other Microsoft Azure services.

Wednesday, 10 October 2018

'Artificial Intelligence meets human intelligence': lessons from an inspiring evening

Event organized by Moore Stephens and element61 in collaboration with Trends, which brought 3 top speakers to talk about "Artificial intelligence" and what this means for our future.

Bart Van Der Vurst

Bart Van Der Vurst

Monday, 24 September 2018

Can Google Analytics be my DMP?

What’s a DMP?A DMP is a data management platform typically used in digital marketing & advertising to collect, build & distribute target audiences across various platforms. It typically acts as the heart of a Marketing organization as it holds all relevant data used for targeting incl. behavioural data (web- & app-tracking), 1th party CRM data (incl. socio-demographics & transaction data) and advertising feedback data (who saw which ad).

Bart Van Der Vurst

Bart Van Der Vurst

Tuesday, 28 August 2018

Matexi optimizes Planning and Reporting using SAP BPC 10.1 on Hana

Matexi is Belgium's leading residential and mixed-use real estate developer with sales of approximately 250 million € and the purpose of improving the quality of the neighbourhoods where Matexi realizes projects.

Tuesday, 17 July 2018