When it came to building Stratiam as a robust and scaleable system, we realised there would be some decisions that would be best made early on. One of those was how we architect the backbone of a system that will need to import and process billlions of lines of data without adversely affecting the experience of users wanting to access and view reports based on that data.

I’ve been working with Business Intelligence (BI) tools for a number of years now, and my collection of vendor water-bottles is slowly building up. BI vendors are good at keeping their analysts hydrated, but where is this industry actually headed?

You probably don’t yet have a robot driving your car. But if you’re traveling into Cambridge by car, you can now use machine-learning to suggest when and where to park.