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Webinar Series: How to build Decision Management Systems

August 23, 2011

I will be hosting a three part free webinar series How to Build Decision Management Systems this Fall.
Decision Management Systems are the next generation of information systems. Agile, analytic and adaptive, Decision Management Systems put business rules management systems, predictive analytics and optimization to work improving the effectiveness and efficiency of your operations. Decision Management [...]

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Decision Management related events Fall 2011

August 23, 2011

This is an update of an earlier post on Decision Technology Events for October 2011
There are a number of great events related to Decision Management themes and technology platforms this Fall.  Here’s my list so far:

Computerworld BI & Analytics Perspectives 2011, 18-20 September, Phoenix, AZ @BIAPCW
I am giving the opening keynote “From Business Intelligence to Predictive [...]

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Predictive Analytics in the Cloud

August 23, 2011

We announced are newest research today – Predictive Analytics in the Cloud. This is a multi-stage, multi-client project that will run over the next few months. We’ve had strong interest and have a great set of sponsors that should be familiar to readers from our First Looks – Clario Analytics, FICO, Opera Solutions, Predixion Software, [...]

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CIOs are getting serious about business rules and decision management

August 18, 2011

My friends at Corticon had an interesting press release today about a survey they just conducted – More Than 40 Percent of CIOs and CTOs Surveyed Plan to Automate Decision Management Processes. There were some interesting results in this. First, as their headline notes, we are starting to get some serious consideration of automated decision-making, [...]

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Jobs – Nomis Solutions hiring

July 27, 2011

One of my clients, Nomis Solutions has a number of jobs open: Client Director, Data Architect, Senior Optimization Engineer, Agile Developer, Technical/Customer Support Director, and Software Architect.
Nomis Solutions provides Pricing and Profitability Management solutions to the financial services industry. Nomis Solutions is headquartered in San Bruno, California, with offices in London and representation in New [...]

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New research on business rules from Forrester

July 5, 2011

John Rymer and Mike Gualtieri of Forrester have published two interesting new reports on business rules – The Future Of Business Rules Platforms and Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms 2011. The first of these is a short piece emphasizing the growing role of business rules management systems in event processing and in Decision Management. The [...]

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New white paper on uplift modeling with predictive analytics

June 30, 2011

My buddy Eric Siegel has just released a new white paper on Uplift Modeling: Predictive Analytics Can’t Optimize Marketing Decisions Without It. Here’s what he says about it:
To drive business decisions for maximal impact, analytical models must predict the marketing influence of each decision on customer buying behavior. Uplift modeling provides the means [...]

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Analytics job at a local startup

June 29, 2011

An old buddy of mine is looking for a good reporting/analytics guy to hire.  Someone who likes crazy startup life.  Someone who is equally comfortable digging a tactical report out of a set of databases as they are thinking about how to combine all those databases into a cohesive data mart and analytics strategy.  Can [...]

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Decision technology events for October 2011

May 23, 2011

There are a number of great events related to Decision Management themes and technology platforms this October. Here’s my list so far for October 2011

Teradata Partners Conference and Expo 2-6 October, San Diego, CA
This is a great conference for anyone using or considering Teradata. I assume that this year there will be a solid set [...]

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The Essential CIO and Decision Management

May 18, 2011

IBM recently surveyed CIOs as part of their ongoing CxO research. This was the second time they did this – 2009 was the first. They just released the results of their analysis of the 3,000 interviews they conducted in 71 countries. The results are summarized in the body of the post along with some Decision [...]

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Reminder – free webinar on Increasing BPM agility and effectiveness with Decision Management

May 4, 2011

Tomorrow, May 5th, at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern I am giving a free webinar on “Increasing BPM agility and effectiveness with Decision Management”. Combining BPM with Decision Management results in simpler, more agile processes and increases straight through processing and operational effectiveness. I will cover how combining Decision Management with BPM:

Delivers simpler, more [...]

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New Rexer Analytic survey for you to take

April 19, 2011

The new Rexer Analytics data miner survey is out. I recently blogged about the results of the last one and it is definitely worth participating as the survey is a great source of information about the data mining and predictive analytics industry. And don’t forget to tell your friends about it too – send them [...]

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Some closing thoughts on IBM IMPACT 2011

April 13, 2011

I am back home after a couple of days at IBM IMPACT 2011 in Las Vegas and as promised here are a couple of closing thoughts.

Decision Management has gone mainstream
IBM put Decision Management front and center alongside Business Process Management. For someone like me who has been writing and talking about Decision Management for 9 [...]

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IBM IMPACT 2011 Day 2 Keynotes

April 12, 2011

Steve Mills kicked off day 2 to talk about the kind of IT architecture that supports business agility. Your IT architecture, he says, must enable business processes run reliably and securely across application silos. Business must own their processes and their data, not have them be subsumed into siloed packaged applications. IT must enable these [...]

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Some announcements from SAS Global Forum

April 5, 2011

10 announcements at SAS Global Forum – some in the technology arena mostly around partnerships, some specific to solutions areas like customer intelligence, one industry specific one and several related to customers and their use of analytics.
Ketih Collins, CTO of SAS, started talking about the high performance computing announcements with EMC Greenplum and Teradata. Today [...]

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Rexer Data Mining Survey Results

March 8, 2011

Karl Rexer has just released the results from his annual survey of data miners – RexerAnalytics.com/Data-Miner-Survey-Results-2010.html. This year 735 data miners responded to an extended survey. Interesting facts from this year’s results:

CRM and Marketing remain the top focus area with goals like retaining customers and understanding them better coming top also.
Decision trees, regression analysis and [...]

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What does IBM Watson mean for Decision Management and Analytics?

February 15, 2011

I have been thinking about IBM’s Watson for a while now. I met some of the team very early in their development and here we are today with Watson slugging it out on TV. To do this it must decompose the question, generate multiple hypotheses and then score them before synthesizing an answer and [...]

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Video Lectures site looking for contributors/reviewers

February 6, 2011

The folks at VideoLectures.NET (http://videolectures.net/) wrote to me looking for blog contributors (http://blog.videolectures.net/) especially in the field of Data Mining or related disciplines within Computer Science. They are looking for video enthusiasts, students or researchers who will contribute creative reviews on different talks on the 12,000 videos on the portal – including a [...]

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IDC: Decision Management Market at $10B by 2014

January 18, 2011

The folks at IDC (Dan Vesset, Maureen Fleming, Steve Hendrick, Henry Morris and others) have just released Worldwide Decision Management Software 2010–2014 Forecast: A Fast-Growing Opportunity to Drive the Intelligent Economy – the first ever market sizing for “Decision Management”. This is exciting – it’s great to have a leading research organization like IDC pull [...]

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Super-early bird price for Predictive Analytics World San Francisco

November 19, 2010

The next Predictive Analytics World is going to be in San Francisco in March next year (March 14-15 at the Marriott Marquis). This is one of my favorite events and I will be giving a workshop and speaking. You can take advantage of the super early bird rate and save $200. This low rate [...]

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