At Hippo, we're all about sharing our experience and expertise.
At Hippo, we're all about sharing our experience and expertise.
We're not just about delivering services; we're passionate about getting involved with the industry through activities that truly make a difference.
We hope you find this newsletter to be a useful resource, packed with training, event notifications, and our teams’ insights, all wrapped up in a short and easy-to-digest package.
If you’ve found it a benefit, we would love to hear your thoughts as we plan future editions!
Our Hippo headliner
AI isn’t always the answer.
Good data architecture is.
AI promises to revolutionise industries, but is it always the right solution? Suze Hawkins, Lead Data Scientist at Hippo, challenges this assumption in her recent talk, demonstrating that strong data foundations – not just advanced models – unlock real value. It’s an approach that saved Suze’s client time and effort (and also A LOT of money).
AI maturity assesment
Navigating the AI opportunity:
Unlocking your organisation's potential
AI is transforming industries, but with rapid adoption comes new challenges. Without clarity on your opportunity, you risk investing in the wrong areas. Our AI maturity assessment helps you understand where you are on your AI journey, offering a clear, actionable and structured path toward effective AI adoption.
Quick Wins
Our headline article got us to thinking: what other jobs have our engineers come across that saved clients time, effort and money, delivering excellent value? Three of our team gave their best examples from their career in technology.
Self-Service data
“The team at a massive loyalty company needed self-serve analytics in order to ensure they were data-driven, whilst keeping data-related costs sustainable. We built clean, logical data sources which could be used by data consumers to answer their own one-time questions, without the need for an analyst’s support, using the Tableau Ask Data feature.”
Stephanie Vincent, Lead Data Analytics Consultant
From 2 hours to 2 minutes
“We built a CRUD app (create, read, update, and delete data) for a popular voucher website. The process took just two weeks and it allowed their sales team (rather than engineers) to correct errors in the URLs in 2 minutes, rather than 2 hours, saving a lot of dev time and missed commercial opportunities.”
Gavin Cheung, Principal Consultant
More accurate journalism
“My team built a reverse-image search engine for journalists on behalf of a large media organisation. The software returns a set of the most relevant similar pictures and its integration with existing workflows lead to a simpler process for sourcing images. This reduced the frequency with which they missed key information and generally sped up investigations.”
Jack Alexander, Software Engineer
Cyber trends
What’s next in security?
We recently undertook work to project the major trends in cyber security as we begin 2025. James Odom, Delivery Partner at Hippo, took us through a few key aspects of cyber security to watch out for this year.