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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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SAS and Accenture announce partnership

February 17, 2010

Accenture and SAS announced today that they will jointly create an analytics group focused on financial services, healthcare and public service. They describe this as a “significant evolution of the existing relationship between the two companies”. The release is at  http://www.sas.com/news/preleases/AccentureSASAnalyticsGroup.html
This is obviously an interesting announcement. Ever since IBM announced its new Business [...]

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Some rules and analytic job opportunities

February 11, 2010

Three job openings today. Decision Management Solutions partner Technology Blue is looking for a couple of experienced Blaze Advisor resources for a project starting March 1:

Senior Business Analyst: Full time resource with experience in business rule harvesting and analysis, process oriented, able to develop and implement processes, must be comfortable leading knowledge transfer and training [...]

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Working down-under

January 26, 2010

Anyone with project management/rules/decisioning experience interested in working in Australia this year, drop me a note james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com as I might have an opportunity for you.

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Progress Software and Savvion

January 14, 2010

I got a briefing from my friends at Savvion and their new colleagues at Progress Software (Savvion is being acquired by Progress).
Progress has been positioning itself around operational responsiveness – responding to opportunities and threats in real time, to what’s happening right now: What are competitors doing right now and can we adjust pricing, what [...]

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SAP Executive Q&A – #sapteched09

October 13, 2009

Here at SAP Tech Ed 2009 and my first session is an executive Q&A. First up was some discussion of the day’s announcements:

Extension of engagement with HP, integrated Neoview with Business Warehouse so customers can combine Business Objects and Neoview. as well as extending the services relationship (obviously important given HP’s acquisition of EDS).
SAP EcoHub [...]

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A reader asks about decision services with multiple answers

September 28, 2009

One of the questions I get regularly can be summarized like this: I see how a decision service works when it returns an answer but can it return multiple answers? As one reader put it:
Suppose we want to go from India to the USA. There are number of alternatives and many flights that are available. [...]

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Decision Management Summit – early bird extended

September 22, 2009

I am the chair of the Summit and I am going to give …

A Keynote on Smarter Systems for Uncertain Times

A Tutorial on Maximizing the ROI of a Business Rules Investment with Decision Management

A Special Talk on Performance Management and Agility

The Early Bird rate for the Summit has been extended one extra week
PLUS there is [...]

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Don’t forget to register for the webinar series

September 21, 2009

The Decision Management Solutions webinar series starts this week with an introduction to the 5 core principles of decision management. Next week sees Eric Siegel present on optimizing business decisions, how best to apply predictive analytics. There’s one or two most weeks (unless I am gone speaking at a conference) and you can use the [...]

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Rebooting campaign management with centralized decisioning

September 14, 2009

I was reading Campaign Management Needs A Reboot by Suresh Vittal – Forrester Research recently as part of preparing for a webinar with Surresh (he and I are both presenting at a Unica webinar on Centralized Decisioning on the 22nd of this month). The paper make some great points and I particular liked the 8 [...]

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Decision Management Events for September 4th

September 4, 2009

This week’s event calendar is below. The intent of this weekly post is to focus on web events coming in the next few weeks and conferences in the coming months. If you know about web or physical events around business rules, analytics, optimization or decision management, please let me know – james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com.
Web Events:

Infocentricity Webinar – [...]

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Rules-based innovation

August 27, 2009

An old friend of mine, Anders Björlin, has just won a 2009 Humanitarian Impact award from The Itanium Solutions Alliance. The press release says:
Judges selected Kiwok of Sweden for its BodyKom(TM) Series remote ECG monitor. Deployed in conjunction with caregivers and health systems, BodyKom allows heart patients to live independently while their heart is monitored [...]

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Decision Management Job – Head of Business Development USA

August 12, 2009

My friends at Marketelligent are looking for a head of business development for the US. Marketelligent is a Bangalore-based consulting firm providing a range of analytics services to global clients and across various domains – consumer banking, insurance, telecom, retail, manufacturing, travel, etc. Services provided include simple MIS and reporting all the way to [...]

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Decision Management Events for July 31

July 31, 2009

This week’s event calendar is below. The intent of this weekly post is to focus on web events coming in the next few weeks and conferences in the coming months. If you know about web or physical events around business rules, analytics, optimization or decision management, please let me know – james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com.
Web Events:

SPSS Webinar -Micro-targeting [...]

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Analytics in a Multichannel World

July 27, 2009

A short article I wrote on Analytics in a Multichannel World has been published on destinationCRM.com. Enjoy.

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Blog updates

July 16, 2009

I am going through an update on the blog – hopefully you can already see a cleaner look. Over the next few weeks I will be upgrading the home page and improving the navigation etc. Let me know if you have any feedback (james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com) and if you have features/styles you like please send me a [...]

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Predictive Analytics World Conference: Agenda

July 15, 2009

I am speaking at Predictive Analytics World in October and they have just published the Predictive Analytics World Conference Agenda. This is the second running of this show and the first, in San Francisco earlier this year, was great so I highly recommend it.
You can register for the event here, check out my session or [...]

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New books on JBoss Drools

July 13, 2009

Syndicated from ebizQ
I have recently been a reviewer for Michal Bali’s new book on Drools (Drools JBoss Rules 5.0 Developer’s Guide), which will soon be generally available. In the meantime you could check out an example of the style by reading this two part article on Drools JBoss Rules 5.0 Flow – Part 1 and [...]

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Financial Services Analysis For Free

July 7, 2009

If you work at a Financial Services organization there is a great new source of free information. Chris Pratt, formerly of Tower Group and Financial Insights has started her own firm – Pratt Associates. She covers credit solutions, scoring/analytics, core banking and BPM solutions. Chris really knows the space and understands how banks work and [...]

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Decision Management Event Calendar for July 3

July 3, 2009

This week’s event calendar is below. The intent of this weekly post is to focus on web events coming in the next few weeks and conferences in the coming months. If you know about web or physical events around business rules, analytics, optimization or decision management, please let me know – james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com.
Web Events:

Silverlink: Applying Analytics [...]

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