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Analytics is not the Silver Bullet

One may think, that the above is obvious- but it definitely is not. As the saying goes “Ignorance is bliss”, and so a lot...

Facebooks and Sales Ledgers

So, if I understand it correctly, the way to become the world's youngest billionaire is to sit up late at night, in your college...

Putting a Value on User Data

The Atlantic has a brief but excellent analysis of the economic value of an internet user's data; see here. This is important -...

the ‘Intelligent’ Software – or is it?

A seemingly naïve post/status update on Facebook caught my eye. The image spoke in volumes for anyone who was/is listening. Apparently intelligence in softwares...

Video Promo by XO Communications and Netezza

Normally I would not dedicate a talkRA post to a promotional video, but there are two interesting things about this one featuring Danny Sangster,...

100M CDRs per day + Auto Correction = ?

Look carefully at the latest press release from Subex and you will find it raises some intriguing questions about the purpose of revenue assurance....

Raw Data, Workflows and Mr. RA Analyst

It's been a while since my last post, and the reason is that I've been quite busy recently with some interesting developments in Revenue...

Panel Debate: Data Warehouses and Revenue Assurance

For podcast 5, I was joined by not one, but three guests. Mike Willett, Director of Fraud and Revenue Assurance for Telstra, President...

Primary or Secondary (?)

I guess I don't understand how a data source be marked as primary or secondary, and who decides which is which.I will illustrate my...

Duplicate Data, Duplicate Costs

You cannot have a debate if you only hear one side of the story. Unfortunately, sometimes you only get to hear one side....

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