Posts Tagged ‘analytics’

27th March 2009

Do the reports you generate prompt action?

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A post over on the Walker Information Blog – Reports that prompt action made me think about the number of useless reports I see. Their focus was on voice of the customer or other customer information reports but it made me think more generally about reports. How many reports do business people in [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Decision Management | 0 Comments

26th March 2009

Facts not fears, confidence not certainty, critical thinking not wishful thinking

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Madeline Albright gave a great presentation at the SAS Global Forum in Washington DC this week. Several of her bon-mots are in the title but there were many others, some of which are below. Each of them struck me as relevant to readers of this blog:

Facts not Fears
Businesses all too often do things [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Decision Management | 0 Comments

25th March 2009

Webinar Putting Predictive Analytics to Work Using Decision Management

I am presenting on putting predictive analytics to work with decision management on April 3rd at 10:30am PDT. As the invitation says “Predictive analytics, applied to operational decision making, is the next wave of business innovation. Organizations that are currently leveraging the power of analytics understand that they are realizing significant improvements in their decision-making processes through the use of this technology, and [...]

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25th March 2009

Business Intelligence or Business Analytics?

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At the SAS Global Forum this week some SAS speakers drew a distinction between Business Intelligence – BI – and Business Analytics. This distinction between Business Intelligence (what everyone else does) and Business Analytics (what SAS does) struck me as a distinction without a difference, as a friend of mine used to say.
As [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI | 4 Comments

24th March 2009

Accuracy not just confidence – some thoughts after attending SAS Global Forum 2009

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I spent a couple of days with thousands of SAS users this week at the SAS Global Forum 2009. There were some great sessions and, as usual with SAS, some terrific customer stories and I suspect I will write a couple of posts. This post, though, is about the theme – Leading with [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Data Mining, Decision Management | 4 Comments

19th March 2009

Salesforce is getting smarter

Decision Management Solutions attended the Santa Clara Cloudforce 2009 event yesterday and heard CEO Marc Benioff present “Welcome to the Real-time Cloud” in which he introduced some great features in their spring 2009 release and demonstrated, once again, that salesforce.com is paying attention. Salesforce.com has clearly realized that the next step for enterprise [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Decision Management | 0 Comments

17th March 2009

Put Predictive Analytics To Work in Operations

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In an article on Intelligent Enterprise titled Predictive Analytics: What Have You Done For Me Lately? Dave Stodder summarized a few points from Predictive Analytics World:
predictive analytics could enable companies to hang tough during lean times by helping them identify the most important customers, focus resources on critical business processes and uncover fraudulent [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics | 0 Comments

12th March 2009

Integrating data and text analysis

Josh Becker of SubZero Wolf and Dave Froning of SAS presented on integrating text analytics and data analytics to make an impression. Text analytics has a lot of potential but success stories are not as widespread as you would think they should be nor are there many stories of operationalizing text analytics. The challenge, Dave [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining | 2 Comments

12th March 2009

Driving harmonization for competitive advantage

Kevin Hogan of Accenture talked about how implementing a warranty system can drive harmonization and competitive advantage.  His focus was on a recent case where they helped a company implement an SAP-based Warranty solution. The case is a global heavy equipment manufacturer with about a focus on Europe and North America. They were running 4 [...]

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12th March 2009

Driving customer loyalty in a disaggregated industry

Steve Zannos of NEW Customer Service Companies presented on customer loyalty in an industry with lots of third parties involved. NEW provides service support to companies who sell products and works with 30,000 independent service agents – everything from single technicians to large depots to national networks. They try to drive customer loyalty through this [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Decision Management | 0 Comments

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