Mentoring at Monash University
One of our core values is to give back to our industry, so that we can nurture the new wave of talent coming through and expose ourselves to new ways of thinking. Over the years we have been invited as Industry Mentors for the Industry Experience Studio Project at Monash University, which is the final capstone project […]
Using data and analytics to evaluate business risk
The great thing about innovation is coming up with an original idea. The great thing about building a business around an original idea is the head start it gives you in defining a unique selling proposition in the market. On the flip side, really testing your business model where no existing precedent has been set […]
Migrating to S/4?
Many companies are now on the verge of implementing or migrating to S/4 HANA, and with SAP advertising the significant benefits of using their in-built analytics capability, one of the most pressing questions is ‘what should I do with my existing analytics investments? Can you just throw them out – or are they still of […]
Doing Data Science with SAP Predictive Analytics – Part One
Following on from our brief overview in the last post, we will focus this post on the data exploration and transformation stages of the data science process. We are deliberately constraining the scope of this article to data exploration and transformation in Automated Analytics, to keep the discussion concise and comprehensible. Rather than simply presenting a tool […]
Doing Data Science with SAP Predictive Analytics – Part Two
Keeping up with the ever-evolving machine learning landscape can be difficult. It seems that every month new modelling software is released, or a tech company open sources a machine learning algorithm. In the context of the SAP technology stack, we want to understand the landscape of the machine learning models provided by SAP Business Objects […]
The Thriving Workplace
Last week I attended a totally unique and ‘out of body’ type conference experience, designed to create a safe and warm environment for everyone to bring their best and most authentic human selves. In the interests of full disclosure and authenticity, I didn’t truly know what I had signed up to. I figured understanding more […]
HANA + Hadoop – CompleteStream March 2017
It was a pleasure to present recently at the LeadingInsights Conference here in Melbourne, hosted by CompleteStream. This conference brings together businesses and practitioners focused on SAP technology from Australia and around the globe, and allowed me to talk about a key passion area for me – the bringing together of SAP and Hadoop! Hadoop has […]
Data Science – CompleteStream March 2017
We recently presented at CompleteStream 2017 in Melbourne, it was a good turnout with some great presentations by knowledgeable practitioners. We began with a brief example that emphasises one of the less talked about benefits of machine learning, which is pertinent in SAP environments; that is its ability to replace hard-coded decision logic. In a sense, a […]
Feature engineering: what your data scientist should be doing
Created by Dr Michael Plazzer, Data Scientist – Ignite Data Solutions There are plenty of articles discussing the value data scientists can bring to a company, and there are a few discussing how they are often wasted. In this article, I will try to quantify the value of having your platforms and processes in order such that your data […]
Cultivating Innovation and Future Talent
Ignite Data Solutions have recently partnered with Monash University, taking on a mentoring role within the Postgraduate Industry Capstone project. This project is focussed around bringing together industry professionals and students from multiple disciplines within the Faculty of Information Technology Masters Program. The aim is to develop innovative systems for commercial use in an industry […]