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How MRI Agora Insights can drive your Business Insights
MRI Agora Insights helps you put your data to work for your business, with a single place to access automated insights at-a-glance. By combining data from multiple MRI applications in predefined, out-of-the-box dashboards, you can be up and running i…
How to use AI to interact with your data
Aritificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the real estate industry by helping owners, operators, investors, and tenants to automate tasks and create efficiencies, resulting in better customer service and improved client retention. The technology …
Tell better stories with data visualisation
“Different stakeholders want to hear different stories from data, so giving them the tools to tailor what they need is key.” Ian Niblock, Senior Director Product Development, MRI Software When making big strategic decisions, the ability to tell a…
What are the key elements of a data platform?
Traditionally, the two key elements of a data platform have been data lakes and data warehouses. These elements are used for very different things and can be categorised in the following way: Data lake A central repository that allows you to store …
Data democracy – How accessible is your data?
We all understand the importance of clean data, but are you making the right data available to the right people? Is it presented it in an easily accessible, digestible format? Some organisations struggle with data they can’t access, because it eithe…
Ready for anything: the data and trends shaping retail in 2025
After a bruising few years, the retail sector has undergone a transformation on multiple levels, becoming more agile and responsive to change while adapting to changing consumer behaviour and preferences. With interest rates forecasted to fall over t…
Make smarter decisions with AI-powered business intelligence
In today’s competitive real estate market, as the volume of data continues to grow across organisations, highly effective data management and business intelligence (BI) processes can provide significant advantages. BI has been around for a whi…
Christmas Forecast 2024
As retail footfall stabilises after several challenging years, the sector has shown remarkable resilience, benefiting from a boost driven by sporting and music events. This resilience, however, is mainly attributed to the retailers’ ability to …