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Gleanster and its BI research

February 1, 2011

I was recently sent a copy of a Gleanster report. Gleanster for those who have not heard of it is a new company (founded by an old colleague of mine, Jeff Zabin, and others) that delivers free research. It is not clear what its business model, exactly, but for readers of the blog it represents [...]

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Some thoughts on advanced analytics

December 15, 2010

As part of the build up to today’s tweet jam on advanced analytics, Jim Kobelius discussed some of the questions they are planning to use in a blog post – Advance your analytics strategy. There’s a lot of good stuff in the article but I do have to take issue with a few things.
First, the [...]

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First Look – ParAccel 3.0

November 30, 2010

The folks at ParAccel announced their 3.0 product recently (details on ParAccel 3.0 here). As I haven’t written about them before, some background first. ParAccel is one of the new class of MPP columnar analytic databases designed to address the challenges raised by the vast volumes implied in the phrase “big data”, the increasing complexity [...]

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International Summit 2011 on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

November 19, 2010

[ June 22, 2011 to June 24, 2011. ] I will be speaking at the International Summit 2011on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence in Rome. My sessions are on Smarter Systems for an Uncertain World and Putting Predictive Analytics to Work. Check out the brochure – DW BI 2011 Rome Brochure

Register here.

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First Look – Calpont InfiniDB

November 18, 2010

I got my first chance to catch up with Calpont recently. Calpont is a privately held company based in Frisco TX with 25 employees. They have been developing their analytics database technology over the past 2.5 years. InfiniDB Enterprise is the commercial product released in February 2010 and InfiniDB GPL version was launched in October [...]

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Elements of Business Analytics

November 17, 2010

Syndicated from IIA
My friends at SAS, a sponsor of IIA, have a nice piece on their Knowledge Exchange – Elements of a Business Analytics Framework for IT. This lays out their view on the different kinds of decision types and maps them to decision frequency. Both in Smart (Enough) Systems and in my blog posts [...]

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The next step to business insight – a video on analytics

November 17, 2010

I recently presented with ParAccel at the IE Group’s Predictive Analytics Summit in San Francisco. My topic was “The next step to business insight” and you can see the slides and video here.

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Speaking at the CIO Network’s Leadership Forum in San Francisco

November 16, 2010

[ December 7, 2010; 9:30 am to 10:30 am. ] I am going to be speaking at the CIO Network’s Leadership Forum in San Francisco. I will be on stage with Bill Lewis, head of BI and analytics at The Gap talking about bringing analytics to bear in operations. The format will be a discussion with questions from the invite-only audience of CIOs. I will [...]

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Here’s why you should refuse requests for reports!

November 9, 2010

One of my favorite web analytics bloggers, Avinash Kaushik at Occam’s Razor had a great post recently – Rebel! Refuse Report Requests. Only Answer Business Questions, FTW. In this post he argues that web analytics professionals should refuse requests for reports like

How much traffic is coming to our website?
I want a conversion rate
I want a [...]

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Integration horizons #inext2010

November 3, 2010

Mike Hoskins came on to wrap up the event after handing out some awards. His focus was on integration horizons, of which he identified three:

Integration Management
This has not historically been a focus for Pervasive – they have been focused on the engines and technical details. The new stack, version 10, has clearly been designed to [...]

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Integration Roadmap #inext2010

November 3, 2010

The key goals or areas of focus for Pervasive in developing its roadmap are:

Connectivity
Verticals
Cloud
Data Quality/MDM
Internationalization
Management and Administration
Performance and scalability
… and partnerships to fill in any gaps

So, product by product, here are the things I thought were interesting

The Connectivity roadmap includes a focus on not just adding more connectors but also delivering a marketplace/community for pre-packaged [...]

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Building custom applications for big data #inext2010

November 2, 2010

Jim Falgout of Pervasive DataRush presented on best practices for custom big data applications. I have spoken to Jim before, when I reviewed DataRush.  Jim sees the big data challenges as being driven by both complexity (high performance computing problems like fluid dynamics, climate modeling) and data size (internet scale data for web indexing and [...]

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Last three webinars in 2010 – Insurance, Analytics, Drools

November 2, 2010

We are wrapping up our webinar series on decision management and I wanted to make sure you knew about the three remaining webinars. These webinars are a great tool for you to learn more about predictive analytics, business rules and decision management in practice. There are more details on the events page [...]

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Pervasive Data Innovation #inext2010

November 2, 2010

Mike Hoskins, Pervasive’s CTO, opened the conference talking about Pervasive Data Innovation. Mike sees a wave of integration innovation coming in the next few year. Pervasive, if you don’t know them, is a 28 year old company with 250 employees and thousands of customers and is particularly strong with partners and ISVs. 39 consecutive profitable [...]

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Right Time Business Optimization

October 29, 2010

Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
Mike Ferguson presented on Right Time Business Optimization using on-demand and event-driven analytics at the Teradata Partners conference. Business optimization, Mike says, is about continuously knowing what is the best action to take and when to take it in every business process to dynamically keep a business [...]

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Teradata Active Enterprise Update

October 29, 2010

Syndicated from SmartDataCollective
Quick update from Teradata to kick off the day focused on Active Enterprise Intelligence. This remains a key theme for Teradata, unsurprising given the focus of Teradata customers on an enterprise data warehouse full of operational data. AEI is about a focus on moving from the back office to the front office – [...]

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Predixion, Zementis and Lyzasoft

October 26, 2010

Interesting announcements last week from three companies I have reviewed recently – Predixion, Zementis and Lyzasoft. Predixion has developed some interesting cloud-based predictive analytic technology – tools to load data from Excel and build predictive models from it – while Lyzasoft has a nice collaborative business intelligence environment and [...]

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Happy world statistics day!

October 20, 2010

It turns out that today is World Statistics Day (according to my friends at SAS, who have a page all about it). The focus of the day is on the value of official statistics. So, if you are working for a governmental or non-governmental statistics organization, have a nice day
If you don’t work [...]

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First Look – Aster Data

September 22, 2010

I listened in to the Boulder BI Brain Trust briefing from Aster some weeks back and then got a follow-on update last week. Aster was founded in 2005 based on research performed by a team at Stanford. The initial plan was to develop a data management platform based on commodity hardware and this was released [...]

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First Look – Cloudera

September 21, 2010

I got my first chance to catch up with the folks at Cloudera recently. Founded in 2008 Cloudera has nothing really to do with “cloud” and focuses instead on “big data” – helping organizations capture, integrate and analyze new sources of detailed business data. Cloudera like to describe themselves as the RedHat for Hadoop – [...]

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