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First Look: FICO Decision Optimizer

May 20, 2013

Decision optimizer is one of FICO’s Decision Management Tools and is designed to address some specific challenges in customer decisioning, particularly that there are often competing objectives and very large numbers of customers (and thus customer decisions) involved. Combine this with the many possible action combinations, uncertainty about what customers might do, as well as [...]

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First Look: Sapiens DECISION update

May 16, 2013

I last got a briefing from Sapiens last year and I recently got an update on Sapiens DECISION release 3.2. Obviously Sapiens DECISION is focused on a robust and complete implementation of The Decision Model as described by KPI.
Governance has seen a major update in the recent release. Users create a Business Change Request to [...]

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First Look: SAP Real-Time Offer Management

May 9, 2013

As part of the ongoing blog series on Marketing Decision Management Solutions I got an update from SAP on Real-Time Offer Management. This is based on an acquisition made at the end of 2006 of a real time recommendation technology developed for the CRM market, with early adoption mainly by the competitive service industries – [...]

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First Look: FICO Marketing Products

May 2, 2013

I got a chance to catch up with FICO’s Marketing products as part of our ongoing blog series on Marketing Decision Management solutions. FICO has been transitioning from using its tools to build custom marketing solutions to delivering a complete solution specifically for marketing. They also acquired Entiera about a year ago and have integrated [...]

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First Look: IBM Real-time Interaction Management

April 30, 2013

As part of our ongoing series on Marketing Decision Management solutions I recently got a briefing on some of IBM’s Marketing Solutions – specifically IBM Real-time Interaction Management. IBM’s Real-time Interaction Management offering is part of IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management suite. This has been a real focus area for IBM in the last few years with [...]

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First Look: Informatica CEP

April 25, 2013

I got caught up with Informatica recently, checking in with them on their Complex Event Processing (CEP) technologies. They have recently been talking about decision management, especially in healthcare where their new Informatica Proactive Healthcare Decision Management solution is based on their CEP engine.
Like me Informatica see a historical, summarization focus in business intelligence (BI) [...]

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First Look: GDS Link Decision Intelligence

April 24, 2013

I got an update from GDS Link on their Decision Intelligence product recently. This was developed initially as a consulting tool and is now available as a licensed product. The purpose of Decision Intelligence is to help customers anticipate business corrections before there is an impact on the business. Decision Intelligence provides scorecard monitoring or [...]

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First Look: IBM Decision Optimization solutions

April 23, 2013

IBM has a portfolio of decision optimization products that are integral to their smarter analytics strategy, aimed at both the hard-core optimization experts as well as targeting line of business markets. IBM sees optimization expanding, expanding from the traditional optimization technology market to a more mainstream decision optimization platform with an increasing focus on specific [...]

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First Look: IBM SPSS Modeler Update

April 16, 2013

It has been a while since I was updated on IBM SPSS Modeler and I got an update from IBM recently. IBM SPSS Modeler is, of course, IBM’s primary data mining and predictive analytics workbench. It uses a standard workflow metaphor, letting you string together nodes that process data, run algorithms, score data, etc. Both [...]

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First Look: Decisions

April 15, 2013

I caught up with the wonderfully named Decisions recently. Back in the 90s the founders started OOP.com to separate what programmers did (build new components) from business users (who assembled and managed components) in complex decisions. This was sold to become the platform for a voice recognition product in the UK. In 2004 they started [...]

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First Look: Pegasystems Update 2013

April 8, 2013

Pegasystems had good years in 2011 and 2012 they say, with Q4 2012 being particularly strong and good results from their decision management products. They have over 2,000 employees as they go into their 30th year and are targeting $500M this year. Pegasystems maintains its focus on a platform business with a number of specific [...]

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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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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: IDIOM Update 2013

April 2, 2013

It’s been a while since I last got an update from IDIOM – several years since this update on IDIOM charging by the rule. To recap, IDIOM was founded back in 2001, has 12-15 FTE staff and is solidly based in New Zealand with largely NZ investors and about 80% of their revenue from Australia [...]

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First Look: Saffron Technology

April 1, 2013

Saffron Technology is focused on prediction and sense making using associative memories. Associative Memories automate cognitive thinking by building connections and counts from large amounts of data. Saffron Technology uses a NoSQL / schema free approach and have developed technology to reason in real time by recalling the connections in the context of the raw [...]

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First Look: Precog

March 28, 2013

Precog was founded in late 2010 to solve the challenges identified by the founder when he was working on developing an online advertising platform. An online ad platform generates a tremendous amount of data, data that can be used to target ads or select specific creative for an ad, but managing and using this data [...]

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First Look: Revolution Analytics Update

March 27, 2013

Since I last wrote about Revolution Analytics (back when they announced their Netezza relationship) they have added some new management and are growing fast. In particular they see lots of big data experimentation evolving into actual projects. To recap, Revolution Analytics is a commercial analytics company based on the open source R statistics language. The [...]

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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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First Look: KXEN’s Cloud-Based Predictive Offers

March 20, 2013

I last got an update from KXEN when they launched InfiniteInsight Genius. Since then they have been rolling out cloud-based analytic applications built around their core modeling engine. In particular they have launched a new product, KXEN’s Predictive Offers, their second cloud-based predictive analytic application.
KXEN has historically been focused on B2C companies, especially large ones, [...]

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