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GENERAL: TEL: Qrious delivers greater insight into a smart data world
Media Release
10 March 2014
Qrious delivers greater insight into a smart data world
Telecom Digital Ventures is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new
standalone business, Qrious. Qrious will provide a better way for New Zealand
organisations to tap into the world of insights and create value from data,
analytics and applications. More details of Qrious can be found at
www.qrious.co.nz
Telecom Chief Executive, Simon Moutter, says, "We are living in a new digital
age, where the smart use of data is an exploding global phenomena. It's
rapidly changing the way people live and do business around the world. Qrious
is a bold move to help lead the development of greater economic and social
value for New Zealand."
Qrious is built on the powerful combination of information, insight and
action.
"Qrious wants to help New Zealand address big challenging issues such as how
to deliver better public transport, housing, and health outcomes. We want to
help businesses and organisations improve the way their products and services
meet their customer wants and needs," says the General Manager for Qrious,
Cyrus Facciano.
"For example we are curious about ways to help prevent the increase of
chronic illness and improve the healthcare services available to the public.
By connecting available data sets across the sector and correlating this with
population demographics, we can help direct investment to the most in-demand
types of care.
"Greater value and benefits can be derived from the combination of
information, the insights that can be gleaned from that information, and the
application of those insights into valuable action.
"The challenge is, many organisations and businesses don't have the people
expertise or technical resource to analyse information and gain these
insights, or if they do, there are significant obstacles to generating value.
Drawing on a powerful and unique local cloud platform and a team of data
experts, Qrious aims to help them overcome this challenge."
"We believe there is a massive opportunity for NZ Inc. to generate
significant economic and social benefit from smarter use of data. Global
insights suggest this could generate value in the billions of dollars for New
Zealand.
"We have established a platform where businesses, the public sector and other
organisations can privately and securely host their own data and combine this
with other publicly available information to gain even greater insights. Our
experts will help them to work with this data to derive valuable information
and understanding."
Along with this emerging Big Data phenomena is the global emergence of a new
kind of professional, the "Data Scientist". Data Science is the unique but
essential combination of statistics, coding skills and business acumen to
solve business and public good problems. The challenge, is that this type of
professional is extremely rare.
In order to help build up the data science skill base within New Zealand that
is necessary to deliver these benefits, Qrious is also establishing a Data
Science Academy where students will be trained, tutored and tested on their
knowledge of these new techniques. The best people will be offered
internships and positions in this emerging and exciting industry. Details of
the Qrious Data Science Academy can be found at www.qriousacademy.co.nz
"We think people will be amazed at the innovation, efficiencies and insights
that can be created from the better understanding of available information.
Qrious will be the market leader in extracting these insights and helping our
organisation and business customers comprehend and influence the forces that
shape modern society."
ENDS
For follow up enquiries contact:
Conor Roberts
Telecom
Head of Public Affairs
021 124 6004
[email protected]
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