We find ourselves in unprecedented times. All across the globe the impact of COVID-19 is being felt, it’s heart-breaking reading the stories of loss, the impact on societies, businesses and individuals as a result of measures put in place to restrict the momentum of...
This month OptimalBI is hosting a Data Science Pioneers documentary screening. The first screening was crowded and the rest of the sessions are booking up very quickly, so you might have heard about it already. I'm guessing, the selling point (although it's completely...
Probably you know that our boss Victoria supports many digital initiatives across New Zealand. One day she has shared with us one of the latest Digital Future Aotearoa initiative called Electric Garden. This is an Internet of Things solution for garden monitoring...
Last summer we brought you Foghorn, an email notification service which lets you know when a cruise ship is due in Wellington harbour. Well, it's back this summer too! You should have received some notifications in the last week or so if you're already signed up, but...
Earlier this year in a Christchurch auditorium packed with girls, their mothers, fathers and brothers - I learned just what a big deal Ada Lovelace was from the live performance show ADA ADA ADA. And WOW what a show it was. Employing the power of a programmable LED...
It's the third month of 2019 already! Can you believe it?! We can't, the year seems to be flying by at pace. In this newsletter, we've got a spotlight on chatbots as we have been implementing these for customers recently so are learning loads of new...
We use MongoDB as part of our daily life at OptimalBI, and we love it. We did notice that there's not really a Wellington user community, so we figured we'd better fix that! We're pretty happy to announce that there's now a MongoDB Meetup in Wellington! ...
Hello and happy how-is-it-December-already?! What a year 2018 has been. We hope yours has been exciting, full of opportunity and you're looking forward to a well deserved break very soon. This newsletter is the last for the year, so taking the opportunity to share...
Kia ora and welcome to November! Once again, we're moving swiftly towards the end of the year wondering how that happened so quickly! Thank you for being part of the OptimalBI whānau in 2018. We hope you enjoy all the festivities over the coming weeks and have a...
In March we will be welcoming back Lawrence Corr, bestselling author of “Agile Data Warehouse Design”. OptimalBI are happy to be hosting Lawrence’s Wellington 3-day BEAM* training workshop and data modelstorming masterclass. Lawrence’s data modelling expertise is...