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Here’s how to use Decision Management to improve cross-channel experience

August 29, 2011

Retailing today had an interesting article – “Best Buy, Sears, Target tops in cross-channel performance” – about the importance and challenges of becoming a cross-channel retailer. I was struck by the potential of Decision Management Systems to improve cross-channel experiences in a couple of key areas:

60% had inconsistency across in-store and online promotions;
Obviously inconsistency is [...]

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Webinar: How to build Decision Management Systems – Part 3 Decision Analysis

August 23, 2011

[ November 29, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] 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 Systems are agile – easy to change, easy to keep compliant and transparent in their behavior. They [...]

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Webinar: How to build Decision Management Systems – Part 2 Decision Services

August 23, 2011

[ October 27, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] 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 Systems are agile – easy to change, easy to keep compliant and transparent in their behavior. They [...]

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Webinar: How to build Decision Management Systems – Part 1 Decision Discovery

August 23, 2011

[ September 21, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] 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 Systems are agile – easy to change, easy to keep compliant and transparent in their behavior. They [...]

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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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SAS Forum Netherlands 2011 Keynote – Transforming your business with analytics

August 22, 2011

[ October 5, 2011; 5:00 am to 6:00 am. ] I am giving a keynote on “Transforming your business with analytics” at at SAS Forum Netherlands 2011 on October 5, 2011.

The power of analytics lies in its ability to transform decision-making. Focusing on decisions, especially on operational decisions, focuses advanced analytics to drive measurable business results. By delivering the right action at the right time, [...]

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First Look – Causata

August 11, 2011

Causata is a software company founded in early 2009 with a heritage from the online space – behavioral targeting on the web and database marketing. They are headquartered here in Silicon Valley with engineering in London and the team has experience across companies like Touch Clarity, Omniture, Interwoven, DoubleClick, RedHat, Skype, eBay and others.
Causata sees [...]

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First Look – JMP Pro

August 10, 2011

I got my first look at JMP recently. JMP originally stood for “John’s Macintosh Project” apparently but is now a major business unit of SAS that has operated independently since 1989. It has about 180 employees and 250,000 users worldwide. The product has long since supported both Windows and Mac platforms and is a full [...]

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First Look – Oracle Data Mining Update

August 4, 2011

I got an update from Oracle on Oracle Data Mining (ODM) recently. ODM is an in-database data mining and predictive analytics engine that allows you to build and use advanced predictive analytic models on data that can be accessed through your Oracle data infrastructure. I blogged about ODM extensively last year in this First Look [...]

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First Look – IBM InfoSphere

August 3, 2011

I got an update on IBM InfoSphere recently. InfoSphere handles information integration, master data management, lifecycle management, privacy and security, warehousing, big data (as described here in a previous post on IBM’s Big Data platform).
Independent integration is the challenge that IBM sees as being at the heart of data and information management. They define integration [...]

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First Look – IBM In-Database Analytics

August 2, 2011

IBM SPSS has been supporting in-database analytic modeling for a while now. Their objective is to make it possible for analysts to run the complete data mining process end-to-end in-database – from accessing the data to data transformation and model building/scoring. In particular, they try to enable analysts to push data transformation and data preparation [...]

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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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First Look – Clario Core

July 26, 2011

Clario Analytics has been marketing cloud-based analytic solutions since 2008. The company has been going to market with a general purpose analytic platform – Clario Platform, offering predictive analytic model development in the cloud – across multiple verticals. In addition, they leveraged their deep experience in marketing optimization and developed Clario Stream, a marketing optimization [...]

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Computerworld BI Keynote – From Business Intelligence to Predictive Analytics

July 25, 2011

[ September 19, 2011; 8:45 am to 9:30 am. 8:45 am to 9:30 am. ] I am giving the opening keynote at the Computerworld BI & Analytics Perspective Conference on September 19 2011.

The data you have, the way you analyze it, and the way you act on this analysis drives better business outcomes. To make the most of your data you need to do more than just adopt predictive analytics [...]

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First Look – Modern Analytics

July 21, 2011

Modern Analytics was founded in 2001 by a team that originally met building analytical capabilities for a major European bank. They wanted to see if they could make it easier to deliver the kind of analytic infrastructure they had developed for the bank. Since then, they have worked in many industries and have developed this [...]

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First Look – Silvertail Systems

July 19, 2011

Silver Tail Systems was founded in 2008 by founders with a background in web search, trend analytics and fraud detection. After joining eBay to fight phishing and other kinds of fraud like fake auctions and fake bids, the team sat down and figured out the tools that would have been helpful tackling these fraud challenges. [...]

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What, really, is the business of a mortgage broker?

July 11, 2011

Thanks to @susanliza1 I saw a tweet from @ArthurAranda of Hudson City Savings in which he said
The business of a mortgage broker is knowing numerous & complex lending rules, regulations, procedures, & policies. It is not for everyone.
Given what I do – helping companies build decision management systems – this is interesting to me. Is [...]

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Decision Management’s “Epsom Salt” problem

July 7, 2011

Have you looked at a packet of Epsom Salt recently? Here’s a product that describes itself as

a soaking aid for minor sprains and bruises
a saline laxative for the short term relief of constipation
a plant nutrient for vigorous lawns, flowers, plants, vegetables and trees

Three very different uses – after all, how many laxatives would you put [...]

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