Read up on our technical blogs, covering technology & AI, data management and data quality, and insights from the market.
Last week, we ran an Author focused blog content week. Each day focused on one author and their written pieces. The week kicked off with Fiona Browne as our author in focus. We had the opportunity to shed light on her various AI/ML themed pieces . One of our favourites is her piece on ‘Explainable AI’, delving into the reasons why AI needs […]
Welcoming our two new apprentices We kicked off the week by announcing the exciting news that two new apprentices from the Belfast Met have joined our DevOps team. The firm has now grown by 25% since March 2020 and approaching 130% over the past two years, in response to rapidly growing customer demand. The new recruits, Natalia Walsh and Victoria Wallace, will balance their four days
Stuart Harvey, CEO at Datactics recently contributed to the Belfast International Homecoming, which this year was held virtually. Stuart was joined by Camilla Long, Career Encode; Seamus Cushley, Bazaarvoice; and Kevin Cunningham of MRP Prelytix. The panel itself was chaired by Jayne Brady, Digital Innovation Commissioner and aimed to discuss the question: Can Belfast’s Technology Companies Lead an Inclusive Recovery?
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Last September, Kieran Seaward, our Head of Sales, delivered a keynote at the virtual DMS USA on a data powered economy. In his keynote he unpacked: The impact of COVID on shifting business priorities, focussing on how existing data management processes and data architectures have changed – as well as problems encountered along the way
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Over the weekend Dave Brown, Marcus Lamb, Josh Piper and Matt Flenley took part in the Red Bull Timelaps challenge, with 25 hours’ racing taking place between 12 pm on Saturday through to 12 pm on Sunday. Overall, despite a few hours lost to punctured tyres (and riders!), the team managed a creditable finish of
Datactics Head of Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Fiona Browne, recently contributed to the episode of FinTech Finance: Virtual Arena. Steered by Douglas MacKenzie, the interview covered the extent of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) fines currently faced by banks over the last number of years and start to unpack what we do at Datactics in relation to
We started by looking at why data matching is a key part of any AML & KYC process. It’s made more complex by the different standards, languages, and levels of quality in the different data sources on which firms typically rely on. It’s expensive too: a recent Refinitiv article states that some firms are spending up to
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Recently we partnered with the EDM Council on a video that investigates the application of AI to data quality and matching. In this EDM Talk, we lift the lid on how our AI team is developing solutions to help our clients, especially in the area of entity matching and resolution. This plays an important role in on-boarding, KYC and obtaining a single
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TechNation FinTech launch! On Tuesday the TechNation FinTech 3.0 launch took place online. We were very much looking forward to this kick-off, as it would allow us to meet the other members of the cohort, and give us an opportunity to hear from some heavyweights in both the banking and payments sector. One of the highlights of the launch was Christian Faes, Co-Founder/Exec Chair LendInvest speaking. When he was asked
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What does the self-service data quality (SSDQ) platform do? It empowers data owners and SMEs to measure and maintain data quality themselves in line with governance policies. SSDQ is already adding value at multiple investment and retail banks, wealth managers, and data vendors helping them to: Achieve end-to-end holistic data quality management Measure data against industry-standard dimensions and regulations Empower data stewards /
Action Mental Health granite challenge Datactics’ Runners & Riders Club racks up a total of 338 miles taking on the Action Mental Health’s DIY Granite Challenge. The Action Mental Health (AMH) Granite Challenge is the virtual cycling challenge which took place 4th – 11th October. This challenge is designed to challenge cyclists of all ages, abilities and goals
At the recent A-Team Data Management Summit we held a giveaway competition for the chance to win an independent bookstore voucher – £100 to Daunt Books in London, or $100 to Strand Book store in NYC. We asked data management professionals attending the event to give their biggest data quality or matching challenge. Below you can find a summary of
Biggest Data Quality or Matching Challenge? Here are the answers! Read More »
The Action Mental Health Granite Challenge is the virtual cycling challenge which took place 4th-11th October. It is designed to challenge cyclists of all ages, abilities and goals to clock up as many kilometres as possible in the week of World Mental Health. Action Mental Health is a vital charity supporting mental health, so we were
A few years ago, Heineken broadcast a classic Elephant-in-the-room advert where various groups of utility construction workers all agree to carry out their work at the same time, to “save digging up the road again and causing the public more inconvenience.” It’s probably the dream of every road-weary traveller encountering another set of roadworks on
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Competition WINNER announced, Tech Export Academy and Meet Sean! Winner! Hot on the heels of the Data Management Summit Virtual last week, we are pleased to announce the winner of the competition we conducted. We asked the question ‘What’s your biggest data quality or matching challenge right now?’ for the chance to win a $100 gift card to Strand
Round-up for a week at Datactics! Read More »
The route to better data quality – It’s easy to say that planning a journey has been made far simpler since the introduction of live traffic information to navigation apps. You can now either get there faster, or at the very least phone ahead to explain how long you’ll be delayed. It’s just as easy
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Build vs Buy? The 1970 space mission Apollo 13 famously featured one of the finest pieces of patched-together engineering ever seen on or indeed above this planet: making a square peg fit a round hole. In Houston, legions of expert NASA engineers worked alongside the reserve crew to improvise a way of fitting a square
Part 3: Build vs Buy – Off-the-shelf or do-it-yourself? Read More »
Hi Sean! Perhaps as we begin, you could tell me a bit about how you got into your role, what was your educational background? I studied Computer Science at Queens University Belfast. Naturally, when I graduated, I wanted a role in the IT field. After having a job for 2 years, I then decided to go travelling and then upon my return, I began
With Snowflake connectivity, SQL rule wizard and the ability to bulk assign data quality breaks, ADQ 1.4 makes end-to-end data quality management even easier.
