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More support for PMML

October 19, 2009

PMML is one of the standards I follow and I was glad to see recently that six new members have added their support. PMML is an XML standard managed by the Data Mining Group for describing models and, as such allows models built in one tool to be deployed in another reasonably seamlessly. [...]

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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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SAS Premier Business Leadership Event

October 8, 2009

[ October 28, 2009 to October 29, 2009. ] I will be a guest at the SAS Premier Business Leadership Event in Las Vegas. I’m not speaking but if you are at the event and see me, say hi.

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Advanced decisioning for process excellence

October 6, 2009

I presented this morning on Advanced decisioning for process excellence and Sandy Kemsley wrote a nice summary over on her blog Column 2 : Advanced decisioning #GartnerBPM.
I gave the session again as a webinar and the recording is available here.
I am going to give the session as a webinar on Thursday of this week (details [...]

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BPM Optimization and Simulation

October 5, 2009

Jim Sinur is up next on optimization and simulation. The world is changing fast so he sees the use of optimization and simulation becoming broader than its traditional role of improving existing process. Optimization and simulation allows:

Try new processes in a safe environment
Give business people power to try changes before they go live
Help in scenario [...]

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All about Smart Work with Nancy Pearson

September 23, 2009

I got a chance to sit down with Nancy Pearson, Vice President BPM, SOA, WebSphere and Industry Marketing at IBM last week to talk about Smart Work and other related topics. Smart Work is one of the four major themes that are part of IBM’s overall Smarter Planet initiative – New Intelligence, Green and Beyond, [...]

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Boosting results or reducing costs with lift curves

September 22, 2009

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
I have been thinking about lift curves this week (no, really, this is the kind of thing I think about) and I thought it was worth spending a post describing them and their value.
Before I actually talk about a lift curve I need to give you a little background. The purpose of a [...]

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Webinar: Advanced decisioning for process excellence

September 22, 2009

[ October 8, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] The third webinar in the series, this one is a reprise of a Power Breakfast I am giving at the Gartner BPM Summit 2009

Straight-through processing, advanced analytics, dynamic processes, business user control and business alignment — all are make or break issues for process excellence. But are these really process issues at all? This session [...]

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Great interview with layman Netflix Prize leader Martin Chabbert

September 21, 2009

Eric Siegel has a great interview with one of the winners of the Netflix prize – check out the Predictive Analytics World blog -  Casual Rocket Scientists: An Interview with Layman Netflix Prize Leader Martin Chabbert.

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Putting predictive analytics to work at Premier Bankcard

September 21, 2009

I am giving a tutorial and a presentation on putting predictive analytics to work at the forthcoming Predictive Analytics World show in Washington DC (October 20th-21st with tutorials on the 19th). I always like to illustrate my points with real examples and I am going to be talking about Premier Bankcard, a SAS client. As [...]

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Decision management and a decision-driven organization

September 18, 2009

Some time back I came across an HBR article called Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance (fee for full article) and I heard from a friend today that Bain was using this approach (see this Bain article for instance Who has the “D”?) as part of building what it calls [...]

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5 ways to reduce cost with predictive analytics

September 17, 2009

Earlier this week I attended a local Business Intelligence SIG to hear Eric Siegel speak.  This was essentially a preview of Eric’s keynote presentation at Predictive Analytics World next month on reducing costs with predictive analytics.
Eric is giving a webinar with me as part of the Decision Management Solutions webinar series – Optimizing Business Decisions [...]

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Webinar: Optimizing Business Decisions – How Best to Apply Predictive Analytics

September 17, 2009

[ September 30, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] The second webinar in the series, this one on  optimizing business decisions with predictive analytics. Harnessing value with predictive analytics depends on some careful choices: What kind of customer behavior you predict and which operational decisions you automate with it. This webinar will guide you in making these choices, and cover a healthy dose of [...]

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Better customer service, better results with predictive analytics

September 16, 2009

Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
I recently hosted a webcast for Smart Data Collective titled “Putting Customer Value to Work: What Predictive Analytics Can Do for Your Bottom Line”. With Korhan Yunak of Vodaphone Group, Anne Milley of SAS Institute and Mike Rote of Teradata Corporation on the panel we discussed how predictive analytics can provide [...]

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Two more dimensions of analytic speed

September 15, 2009

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
Curt Monash has been Thinking About Analytic Speed over on The Intelligent Enterprise Blog and makes some good points about the different kinds of analytic speed. One area I find lots of confusion in discussions of analytic speed that Curt does not touch on is the difference in time to build an analytic [...]

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Putting predictive analytics to work at Infinity Insurance

September 15, 2009

I am giving a tutorial and a presentation on putting predictive analytics to work at the forthcoming Predictive Analytics World show in Washington DC (October 20th-21st with tutorials on the 19th). I always like to illustrate my points with real examples and while I was preparing the presentation I had a chance to talk to [...]

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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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Information led transformation with decision management

September 10, 2009

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
I have been following the recent IBM announcements on analytics closely and have been struck by the increasingly decision-centric point of view being expressed. First there was the business analytics and optimization announcement with its focus on “action support” not “decision support”. The new analytic appliances with their focus on making it easier [...]

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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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CEP = event correlation + decision management

September 2, 2009

There has been a lot of twittering between some of my colleagues (@CMatignon, @mgualtieri, @johnrrymer, @NeilRaden) around rules, decisioning and CEP. As such I thought I would write a quick blog post on the topic as it seems to me that the reason for confusion and for some of the back and forth I see [...]

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