Category Archives: Business Analytics

Our first report from this year’s research, ‘The Changing Role of the CIO’, found that 43% of CIOs are expected to contribute to revenue growth, an increase of 22% on the previous year. As such, the evolving role of the CIO appears to have led to the adoption of new technologies and innovation. The 2019 […]

We are pleased to announce that Logicalis has been recognised as a leader in the IDC MarketScape report on Worldwide Network Consulting Services 2019 Vendor Assessment. This is a fantastic achievement and highlights our continued commitment and ability to increase the profitability of our customers globally. The IDC MarketScape report assesses the capabilities and strategies […]

Ismail El Kadiri, Business Planning and Analysis Lead Consultant, Logicalis UK, looks at three areas of business CxOs should consider prioritising after finance, to leverage the benefits of planning analytics and business intelligence (BI). Over the past decade, numerous planning and analytics solutions have surfaced in an effort to catch up with an increasingly complex […]

Scott Hodges, Delivery Architect Information Insights at Logicalis UK, examines the latest buzz from Big Blue and asks “what is IBM Watson and what can it do?” A cursory glance at the IBM Watson website suggests it’s a tool for building chatbots but, while it can, a deeper dive reveals a lot more. IBM describe it […]

In this latest blog in a series deconstructing the Logicalis Global CIO study, Ruediger Rath, Head of Europe for Logicalis, explores SMACS and its disruptive powers in business. SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) is the idea that four technologies are driving business innovation in our new digitally defined world. However, these game-changing technologies are for […]

We’re in the midst of a series of blog posts, dissecting the results of the Logicalis Global CIO study. In this article, Fanni Vig looks at why big data analytics needs senior business sponsorship. There’s a reason why football teams need effective managers, why battalions need commanding officers and businesses need visionary CEOs: People with […]

The massive increase in the use of cloud-based applications is having a corresponding effect on the number of IT suppliers an organisation has to deal with. And it’s not just IT – line of business is finding solutions from cloud-based vendors too. That of course, is nothing we didn’t already know. But how do we […]

Fanni Vig, Analytics Division Director at Logicalis UK, explains why now is the next best time to invest in business analytics, if organisations can learn from the mistakes of past – to see beyond the misconceptions that have to date destroyed return on around three quarters of analytics investments. Businesses still don’t really understand analytics. That’s the […]

Our recent CIO Survey shows analytics, and its business intelligence (BI) output, is a major concern for CIOs. Joanne Nelson draws our attention to five business intelligence articles from CXO Unplugged. The rise of cloud-based BI solutions (And the demise of on-premise?) The future of business intelligence. The business intelligence (BI) market has reached $13 billion and […]

As CIOs begin a fightback against Shadow IT, engaging with line of business to reshape IT departments as internal service providers, Joanne Nelson looks at their technology priorities. Social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies, collectively known as SMAC, have garnered a great deal of media attention over the last 12 months. But is this hype reflected […]