Insurance case study: Catastrophic events reporting app

As an insurer, property assessments and mitigating actions relating to a hurricane or flood need to be completed quickly in order to reduce the amount of payouts for claims. Project X is always working to come up with solutions to common problems for various industries. We have develo

Attending conferences leads to our best ideas

The decision to attend or exhibit at an out of town conference (particularly a multi-day one) is difficult. By the time you factor in travel, conference fees and hotel costs, you need to be certain your business will strongly benefit from attending. Of course, MicroStrategy World is a

Why we love the new MicroStrategy community portal

While attending MicroStrategy World this past week, we were happy to celebrate 20 years of the event with everyone who attended. Amidst all the celebrations, one new development piqued my interest:  MicroStrategy has started a new community page, a place for MicroStrategy product enth

Welcome to GeoDash 4

View the press release on MarketWired here. Project X Labs revitalizes geospatial analytics with GeoDash 4 Complete with new UI, dynamic zoom, cluster operations and in-building analytics (TORONTO) Project X Labs Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of GeoDash™ 4 our location intel

Top 6 Data Visualization Projects of 2016

At Project X we are passionate about data, and are continually inspired by the creative ways data scientists and artists make large data sets accessible to the public at large. With the new year having just begun, we want to take this time to reflect on our favourite data visualizatio

New version of GeoDash to be unveiled January 3rd 2017

Location Intelligence Made Easy Project X Ltd. and Project X Labs are pleased to announce that we will be launching the latest version of our GeoDash™ product on Tuesday January 3rd. Start the new year right with new features that will make your map-based analytics more intuitive than

“Business Value Through Rapid Analytics” panel – MicroStrategy Symposium Oct. 14, 2016

A big thanks to everybody who came to visit our booth and participate in our “Business Value Through Rapid Analytics” panel last Friday at MicroStrategy Symposium Toronto! We’d also like to extend an extra special thank you to our customer panelists: 407 ETR: Connor

What is Big Data?

This is a question that comes up all the time. I was recently away at a conference where we discussed this topic in great detail for a couple of hours and at the end I think we had a view of the concept of big data, but no common definition. One of the funniest analogies of big data w

Proper Project Communication is Key…right?

I was chatting with a friend recently about a project she is on that she described in her own words as a ‘master disaster’ – timelines in jeopardy, cost overruns, unrealistic expectations, and frustrated team. I thought back to my own experiences and research and my first

Project Plans and the SDLC

As we all know every project starts with a plan.  It is crucial to have a roadmap to guide you on any endeavour that you plan to undertake.  As it is said, if you don’t have a plan then you plan to fail.  Of course, we need to have a plan that depicts your objectives and incorporates