SAS, Accenture drive predictive analytics

Building on a 10-year partnership, Accenture and SAS are joining forces to jointly develop, implement and manage next-generation predictive analytics applications, reports InformationWeek

The Accenture SAS Analytics Group will fuse Accenture's industry knowledge with SAS's analytics capabilities, says Henry Morris, senior vice-president for IDC worldwide software and services. The alliance is expected to bridge an industry expertise gap by establishing more industry-specific applications.

“What is in very short supply are experts who are familiar with analytic techniques and know how to apply them to industry-specific decisions,” Morris said.

Datawatch, a business intelligence software vendor, has unveiled Monarch BI Enterprise Server version 5, states IT Jungle.

Datawatch uses a customer's existing reports as the basis for its product suite, Instead of forcing customers to buy ETL tools, set up large-scale transformations, and worry constantly about the quality of data.

By consuming the plain text of trusted reports, and using techniques with metadata to basically recreate the relationship of data as if it were sitting in a database, this software outputs structured data that can be manipulated by the user in programs such as Excel.

The Cyprus Council of Ministers has approved the creation of a government data warehouse, says Famagusta.

Government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou said after a Cabinet meeting: “it is an online site featuring all necessary infrastructure for the exchange of information and the interrelation of data between the state's various information systems”.

The creation of this data warehouse is now possible as computerisation of the civil service has been completed, he adds.