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Teradata Database 13.10

April 27, 2010

Todd Walters introduced the new release – 13.10. Not every feature is equally interesting to me but a couple were important to note:
One of the key features in the new database release is the support for temporal tables. Default for a temporal table will be to show only current records. But you can ask simple [...]

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Teradata – Key Messages

April 27, 2010

Randy Lea kicked off the Teradata Third Party Influencers event with Teradata’s key messages:

The best database for analytics
Obviously this is #1 for Teradata is to deliver on this with a focus on being “parallel everywhere” while having the database do as much as possible. Also provide a self-service portal for DBAs, offer query rewrite/optimizing, hotspot [...]

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Performance Management, Decision Management

April 21, 2010

I presented on the role of decision management in adding agility to Performance Management to the BI SIG of the SDForum last night. Here are the slides and Paul O’Rorke blogged a summary.
Performance management and agilty
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IBM Advanced Case Management Technology

April 15, 2010

After the intro on Advanced Case Management, a more technical session. The idea, Carl Kessler says, is to take all the technology IBM has and create a real improvement in their case management capabilities. Carl explained how IBM takes what they see industries and customers doing and capture storyboards for these different scenarios like new [...]

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Challenge or Opportunity: Take Control

April 12, 2010

First SAS Global Forum Executive Conference session with Jim Davis, CMO of SAS, talking about fact-based decisioning.
A good crisis is a terrible thing to waste
Jim asked the audience if they took the opportunity of the recent crisis to re-tool their business, to re-assess how to run the business. One of the key ways to do [...]

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Analytics and IVRs

April 5, 2010

As regular readers know, IVRs are one of my pet peeves. Not because I want them all to have a button for a human but because I want them to be smart. I want them to use what they know about me to tailor the options, to predict what I am likely to do and [...]

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Presentation to the SDForum Business Intelligence SIG

March 26, 2010

[ April 20, 2010; 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] I am speaking on Performance Management and Agility at the SDForum – Business Intelligence SIG in Palo Alto:

The need to balance performance monitoring and decision management to maximize both awareness and agility.
How Decision Management transforms your investment in instrumentation into an investment in agility.
How Agility translates to direct impact on your key business priorities-cost competitiveness, [...]

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Add BI about and within your business processes #gartnerbpm

March 23, 2010

`Cross-posted to ebizQ
Bill Gassman presented on adding business intelligence about and within your business processes. Bill’s emphasis is on the value of bring Business Intelligence, Business Activity Monitoring and Business Process Management together as well as the challenges of doing so. Bill is using the Large Hadron Collider as an example and talking about the [...]

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Stephen few on the problem with BI

March 22, 2010

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
In a recent post, Big BI is Stuck: Illustrated by SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, Stephen Few took issue with the claims of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. I have not spent any time with the product so I am not going to discuss his specific criticisms but I was struck by a [...]

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BI 2010 – BI Competency Centers

February 24, 2010

Two presenters (Saroj from Standard Bank and Angela from Investec) discussed Business Intelligence Competency Centers to start day 2.
A BICC is a centralized team that captures knowledge, addresses technology, helps manage organizational change and defines common processes for BI across the organization. Repeatability is critical – not having to re-invent things for each new project. [...]

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BI 2010 – Some thoughts on data quality and governance

February 23, 2010

Several sessions this afternoon on data quality and governance. Rather than blogging these separately, here are some thoughts:

Great illustration of data quality problem having a business impact – bad data led a Telco to prepare a large CapEx project to add bandwidth capacity but a physical inspection showed plenty of actual capacity. Bad data had [...]

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BI 2010 – Successfully incorporating geospatial data

February 23, 2010

Melanie du Plessis from the electoral commission was next. The IEC focuses on ensuring that elections are free and fair. One of the key elements of this is a focus on a single national register of voters that everyone appears on once and only once. Divided up the country into voting districts, to one of [...]

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BI 2010 – BI and Performance Management

February 23, 2010

Continuing at BI 2010, Jon Hill spoke on the combination of BI and Performance Management. Jon reiterated the constantly changing environment and the tendency of companies to spend large amounts of money on data infrastructure without thinking through the way this investment will make a difference. In one extreme example he had seen one company [...]

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BI 2010 – Making BI more strategic

February 23, 2010

I have just opened ITWeb’s BI 2010 in Johannesburg talking about decisions and importance of decision making in making BI matter (I will post my slides later). Great audience, nearly 200 people with a strong showing from end user customers (75%) and, very interestingly, nearly half considered themselves business / IT straddlers which is a [...]

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Two more analytics jobs

February 22, 2010

I recently spoke to an interesting company getting serious about analytics and looking for some staff. Drop me a line james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com if you are interested and I will forward your resume along:

Data Mining / Analytics Business Analyst
Senior Business Analyst with data mining and predictive analytics experience to lead the establishment of a decision support system [...]

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Analytic Journeys #pawcon

February 19, 2010

Here’s my presentation from Predictive Analytics World, reproduced with permission from Predictive Analytics World and Rising Media.Analytic Journeys from Predictive Analytics World

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First Look – Quantivo

February 11, 2010

I got a briefing from Quantivo recently. This is a company focused on behavioral analytics – uncovering patterns within the mountains of customer data that companies have – web analytics and point of sale data for instance. They help companies find these patterns, find the insight that they are not seeing with their current tools, [...]

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Operational decision making as a corporate asset

January 27, 2010

Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
I often tell companies and other organizations that they should treat decisions and decision making as assets. In Smart (Enough) Systems, the book I wrote with Neil Raden, we said
Operational Decision Making as a Corporate Asset
If operational decisions must be made well for your organization to deliver on its strategy, they [...]

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Business Analytics in Operations

January 26, 2010

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
I am working with the folks at B-eye Network and sponsors Oracle, SAS, Aha!, Adaptive and Fuzzy Logix on some research – Business Analytics: Putting Analytics To Work.There is growing interest in the power of analytics, especially predictive analytics, to improve business operations. The use of data mining and analytic techniques in operational [...]

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BI 2010, Johannesburg South Africa

January 18, 2010

[ February 23, 2010 to February 25, 2010. ] I am giving the opening keynote and a workshop on “The Decision-Centric Organization” at BI 2010 in Johannesburg February 23-24. My keynote is entitled Does BI Matter? and I will discuss  how BI must  focus not on the quality of data or its timeliness, but its ability to help an organization make better decisions. [...]

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