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Rules Developer/Junior Developer position in Louisville, KY

February 7, 2012

Brooksource in Louisville, KY is searching for a Rules Management Developer for a Fortune 100 client in the healthcare industry. This position is within the Clinical Guidance group and they are seeking someone that has a development background and has experience working with the business side of the house.  This is a unique position that has [...]

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First Look – StatSoft STATISTICA

January 31, 2012

StatSoft was founded in 1984 and started building statistical software when it first became practical to deliver on the PC. STATISTICA is an enterprise predictive analytics platform on the Windows platform with role-based access, connections to the various data sources that companies have and support for data exploration through to deployment. The product has four [...]

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First Look – Quiterian

January 10, 2012

Quiterian is a Spanish company with offices in the US, Mexico and Europe. Quiterian Analytics aims to be complementary to traditional tools for reporting by helping companies get more value from their data sooner. In particular they aim to help companies anticipate the future by providing simple to use predictive analytics and by empowering users while [...]

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First Look – Update on InfoCentricity Xeno

December 12, 2011

I got an update from InfoCentricity recently. InfoCentricity are a software company focused on delivering a web-based, advanced predictive analytics workbench (Xeno). They were founded back in 2000 have been releasing various components of their Xeno platform since then as well as a first application based on this platform (Campaign Analyzer). Xeno4 is the new [...]

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First Look – SAS Enterprise Miner 7.1

November 11, 2011

I got an update on Enterprise Miner™ from the folks at SAS recently. Enterprise Miner is their development tool for data miners and predictive analytic specialists and is a graphical environment for designing and executing the steps in the creation of a predictive analytic model. Enterprise Miner 7.1 was part of the SAS 9.3 release [...]

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Opening Keynotes at #BBCCon11

November 1, 2011

Gladys Lam kicked if off by introducing the three chairs of the conference – Kathleen Barret Chair of IIBA who heads up the business analysis tracks, Roger Burlton of BPTrends who heads up the business process tracks and Ron Ross of BRSolutions who heads up the business rules forum tracks. The three chairs then came [...]

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First Look – Eagle Eye Analytics

March 30, 2011

Eagle Eye Analytics is an analytics company offering advanced predictive modeling to the Property and Casualty insurance market. The company was formed 4 years ago and has been marketing a machine learning SaaS product for the last three years. The company prides itself on selling solutions to clients the way they want to buy them [...]

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First Look – InRule v4

January 25, 2011

I got a chance to catch up with the folks from InRule Technology® recently to discuss the new release of their business rules management system– InRule® v4 (I previously blogged about the product and the InRule 3.2 upgrade). The focus of this release is the authoring interface. Based on a lot of customer feedback, InRule [...]

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Update – KXEN

December 14, 2010

It has been nearly two years since I got a briefing from KXEN (see my KXEN First Look here) so I was glad to get an update recently. KXEN was founded in 1998 and is a VC funded, privately held company headquartered in San Francisco. Their revenue is evenly split 45/45 between Europe and America [...]

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Unum – Managing business rules #bbc2010

October 19, 2010

Subtitled “from 0 to 1400″, this case study discussed how Unum (an insurance company) introduced business rules. Back in 2009 their rules were scattered, siloed, hidden in requirements documents and in different formats (from code to if/then statements to long verbose notes). And even though they tried to focus on rules, [...]

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A really fresh look at business analytics

October 7, 2010

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
A friend sent me a link to a webinar on “The End of BI as We Know It” that promised “A fresh look at what business analytics means”. It wasn’t clear who was speaking or what company was sponsoring but the title intrigued me (as it was meant to). But when I looked [...]

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IBM Business Analytics and Optimization #bas2010

September 28, 2010

Rob Ashe and Fred Balboni kicked off the IBM Business Analytics Analyst Summit with a presentation on IBM’s overall strategy for analytics – product and consulting in an integrated view. Of course this is IBM so everything starts with Smarter Planet – and Smarter Planet begins with how to get insight to drive better performance, [...]

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First Look – Rapid Predictive Modeler

September 2, 2010

SAS today announced SAS Rapid Predictive Modeler today. Some time ago I got a pre-release look at this most interesting product.
Today SAS sees quantitative modelers working on developing and validating models in conjunction with database architects to manage data preparation tasks. Like me they also find that business analysts work on the application of the [...]

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It’s time to industrialize analytics

August 26, 2010

Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
There’s a lot of talk about advanced analytics these days – the use of data mining and predictive analytics is growing rapidly so lots of articles, books (like Tom Davenport’s latest) and blog posts are being written. One of these was by Jeff Kelly over on TechTarget on Data analytics team’s [...]

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Use Cases and Business Rules

August 18, 2010

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Barb von Halle and Larry Goldberg had an interesting article titled Use Cases and Business Rules – can they work together over on Modern Analyst. In the article they discuss the role of the Decision Model and business rules in use cases.
They make some good points and I have [...]

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Teradata Customer Warner Bros Home Entertainment

April 28, 2010

Thomas Tileston of Warner Bros Home Entertainment (DVDs, games and digital distribution part of Warner Bros) was next talking about their use of SAS and Teradata. He started with a little history as he has been using SAS for 20 years or so.

In the early days analytical data set preparation was 70% of the work [...]

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Guest intelligence at Target

April 12, 2010

Guest intelligence is something Target use to drive marketing and merchandising decisions. Target, of course, is a large US retailer that does business in 49 states and has a major web presence. Target has guest data from panel surveys,  store surveys and operational data and regards these all as valid sources of guest data, without [...]

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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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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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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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