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25th of November 2017, Ijmuiden. Today, we celebrated 10 years of Acumen. On a great location, at the "Forteiland" Rotterdam we were divided into 4 groups who challenged each other in equilibrum and memory games. A fancy diner in the catacombs of the Forteiland bunker followed by a countless amount of drinks at the beachhouse concluded an entertaining and amusing day....

Predictive maintenance with DSX for Essers Transport. 13.30 – 14.15 | 23th October 2017, Brussels. Come and join us on the IBM Analytics Summit on the 23th of October! Make sure you are attending the “Data Science & Machine Learning – Make Data Science a team sport” program, and Bernd van Werde, Principal Consultant for Data Science and co-founder of Acumen, will tell you all about the ins...

24th of September 2017, Mechelen. Today 10 brave Acumenists participated in "Dwars door Mechelen". A 10 km run right through the city of Mechelen. Congratulations to Bernd, Michel, Tjomme, Nick, Niels, Ruben, Bart, Koen, Martijn and Bjorn for crossing the finish line dressed up in their brand new Acumen running gear. A healthy mind in a healthy body, that's what we believe in....

12th of September, Leuven. It's been a busy summer for Acumen's HR people. Two new consultants were selected to join the Acumen family. Jeroen Verreyt finished his studies in 2015 from the Thomas More college with a Professional Bachelor's degree in IT management with a specialization towards Business Intelligence. Next he pursued a Bachelor of Political and Social Sciences, but soon realized that the world of...

31st of August 2017, Diegem. For one of our long term customers, two of our senior consultants executed an ETL tool comparison study. DataStage, Informatica, Talend and Pentaho were lined up against each other in order to come with a solid solution to replace the end-of-life IBM Datamanager. Against all expectations, it was Pentaho who came out swinging. Pentaho's interface looks really neat, it has a...

23th of March 2017, Diegem. Last week Acumen participated in a Predictive Analytics Hackathon that was held by one of our customers. With a team that consisted of both Acumen and CBRE professionals, we managed to win 2nd place. Quite an achievement if you take into account that close to 30 teams participated. The proof of concept (that had to be build within 24h), consisted of...