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@TDWI Executive Summit: Ten Best Practices in Operational Analytics

May 13, 2013

[ August 20, 2013; 4:15 pm to 5:15 pm. ] I am speaking with Dean Abbott at the TDWI Executive Summit  in San Diego, August 20th at 4:15pm on Ten Best Practices in Operational Analytics
One of the most powerful ways to apply advanced analytics is by putting it to work in operational systems. Using analytics to improve the way every transaction, every customer, and every website visitor is [...]

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@TDWI Executive Summit: Moving to Real-Time Analytic Decision Making with Decision Management

May 13, 2013

[ August 19, 2013; 11:15 am to 12:00 pm. ] I am speaking at the TDWI Executive Summit  in San Diego, August19th at 11:15am on Moving to Real-Time Analytic Decision Making with Decision Management
For organizations today, the right time to make a decision is increasingly in real time. Customers want responses in real time, supply chains must adapt to disruption in real time, and fraud must be [...]

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My work at the International Institute for Analytics

April 23, 2013

I am a faculty member for the International Institute for Analytics and recently published two new briefs on how to use decision requirements modeling in the successful application of analytics, especially (but not solely) more advanced analytics such as data mining or predictive analytics.

Decision Discovery for a Major Business Function
This outlines how an organization can identify [...]

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Democratizing Data with Decision Management

April 10, 2013

I have been following the Data 2.0 Summit folks recently – the Third Annual Data 2.0 Summit 2013 in San Francisco is a one-day conference and speakers include Anthony Goldbloom, CEO of Kaggle, who is always worth listening to and you can get 20% off your Data 2.0 Summit pass by clicking this link. Anyway, the theme this year is that [...]

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Analytics for Big Data #bigdatamgmt

April 3, 2013

Les Rechan came up to discuss “realizing the value” with analytics for big data. Les reminds us that analytic organizations out perform others so its about using analytics not just data. Again he’s focused on time to insight (where I think the focus should  be time to action, not insight).
Anyway he is focused on why [...]

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IBM PureData System for Hadoop #bigdatamgmt

April 3, 2013

Phil Francisco came up to talk about the new PureData System for Hadoop. He began by pointing out that just because something is open source does not mean there are not real costs involved. To make Hadoop adoptable and usable for enterprises, easier consumption is needed. Hence the PureData Hadoop appliance designed to simplify building, [...]

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IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration #bigdatamgmt

April 3, 2013

Tim Vincent, CTO of Information Management, came next to talk about DB2 with BLU Acceleration.
He began by identifying several different kinds of workloads and scenarios that the new solution is designed to address and pointed out the context for this is rapidly changing hardware capabilities and pricing. Memory prices are falling,bandwidth inside machines is increasing, solid [...]

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IBM Big Data Management Launch – Kickoff #bigdatamgmt

April 3, 2013

I am attending the IBM Big Data Management launch today and will do my best to blog it as it happens. Steve Mills, on video, kicked things off.
Steve began by pointing out that the price performance boost of recent years has made a whole new class of use cases reasonable. In particular more data is [...]

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First Look: Teradata Aster Update

April 3, 2013

I got an update from the folks at Teradata on the Teradata Aster platform recently. I have been briefed on various partnerships around Teradata before – they are very active working with analytics providers on making sure that in-database analytic engines work on Teradata – but had not been briefed specifically on Teradata Aster.
Aster was [...]

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First Look: Aha! Update

March 25, 2013

I got an update from Aha! recently on their Aha! Analytics Platform. Aha! believes that organizations must embed and automate analytic disciplines at the operational level so that people running the business day to day can apply analytics. To deliver on this they have been expanding their analytic platform capabilities, supporting big data and more.
The [...]

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To make better decisions you need to manage those decisions

March 18, 2013

I have been getting a bit behind with my blogging and tweeting recently but I was struck by a comment on Howard Dresner’s thread (@howarddresner) based on preliminary results from his survey (http://wisdomsurvey.com).
#BetterDecisionMaking (so far) is the top goal for #BusinessIntelligence – wisdomsurvey.com #BIWisdom
— Howard Dresner (@howarddresner) March 8, 2013
and Boris Evelson (@bevelson) chimed in [...]

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Job: Analytics Community Manager

March 6, 2013

SmartData Collective is  looking for a Community Manager. I really like the work they are doing and if you are interested in data, analytics, BI etc this could be a fun gig. They are looking for someone who can handle:
Original content and content strategy:

Interviews with thought leaders (skype or in person)
Coverage of events (2-4 per year, [...]

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Marketing and Customer Analytics #sassb

March 4, 2013

Russ Cobb and Randy Guard came up to walk us through a day in the life of a marketing department:

Problem identification by the CMO
Discovery and segmentation by the marketing analyst
Campaign design and execution by the campaign manager
Optimization and social listening by the campaign manager and marketing analyst
Results for the CMO

Randy started demonstrating his iPad dashboard driven [...]

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SAS Data Management #sassb

March 4, 2013

Keith transitioned into talking about Data Management. He begun by pointing out that better business decisions rely on data – you need data in the right place, at the right time, in the right form to the right people (or, I would add, systems). As companies by more SaaS packages to run their business, this [...]

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SAS Inside Intelligence 2013 – Kicking off #sassb

March 4, 2013

Jim Davis kicked off the annual SAS analyst event. SAS sees their work on in-memory analytics in recent years as another major change in the way companies handle data and develop analytics, especially when combined with their work on taking advantage of this with their new visual analytics interfaces. This, he says, is going to [...]

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First Look – SQLStream

December 3, 2012

The move over recent years has been towards increasingly distributed processing of data, both in terms of the underlying model and in terms of the processing architectures available. More and more of this data is also streaming and SQLstream is focused on effective access to streaming big data. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San [...]

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Recording for Using Predictive Analytics to Put Big-Data to Work in Little Decisions available

September 28, 2012

I gave a lecture as part of  7DEE on “Using Predictive Analytics to Put Big-Data to Work in Little Decisions“
The power of predictive analytics and big-data lies, perhaps paradoxically, in an organization’s smallest decisions. In this session, students will learn to focus on the day-to-day operational decisions that power business and learn how these little decisions [...]

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Live Event: Heliview Business Analytics Summit, The Netherlands

August 15, 2012

[ October 17, 2012; ] I am giving a keynote presentation on “Big Data, Little Decisions: Using Analytics to Improve day to day operations” at the Heliview Business Analytics Congress in Bussum, just outside Amsterdam, on October 17, 2012.
As companies invest in Big Data infrastructure they are looking for ways to show a return on that data. Using business analytics [...]

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Oracle Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics SIG Virtual Summit

August 7, 2012

There’s a great even coming up in August for anyone looking for some online sessions on business intelligence, data warehousing and analytics. The Oracle BIWA SIG is holding its Virtual Summit 2012, two FREE days of Education, on  August 15th and August 16th. I am giving the opening keynote talking about the move from business [...]

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Webinar: Oracle BIWA SIG From BI to Predictive Analytics

August 3, 2012

[ August 15, 2012; 8:00 am to 9:00 am. ] I am giving the opening session for the Oracle Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics SIG on August 15th at 11am ET/8am PT
The data you have, the way you analyze it, and the way you act on this analysis drives better business outcomes.  James Taylor, CEO of Decision Management Solutions, Faculty Member at International Institute for [...]

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