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Smarter Analytics Leadership Summit Opening #smarteranalytics

March 20, 2012

Steve Mills kicked off the IBM Smarter Analytics Leadership Summit. Business Analytics matter, he says, as shown by the focus of CEOs (8 out of 10 expect complexity to increase, enterprises applying analytics are more successful etc). The need for analytics is pervasive, with every industry seeing a massive expansion in the volume of data [...]

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First Look – Predixion Insight 2.0

March 1, 2012

I got an update from Predixion Software recently. Predixion, as I have blogged before, was founded in 2009 and is focused on disrupting the predictive analytics market by making it easier to build and deploy predictive analytics. Their core belief is that success with predictive analytics is going to require the broadening of the range [...]

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Market Development at SAS

February 27, 2012

SAS has spent the last four years moving its partnering strategy forward – making partnering a core part of how they do business, partnering with Teradata and Accenture, and most recently a push towards 30%/$200M of first year revenue impacted by partners. Russ Cobb reported out how this has been going in terms of partners:

From [...]

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Enabling Business Analytics at SAS – Data Management

February 27, 2012

SAS sees Information Management as being about treating data as a strategic asset. Changes in competition, regulatory environment and more are driving this to be more importance. Information Management for SAS includes Data Management, Decision Management (mixing rules and analytics to drive operational decisions in decision services) and Analytics Management (supporting what I call an [...]

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Enabling Business Analytics at SAS – Business Visualization

February 27, 2012

Four themes in business visualization:

Consumer-oriented BI
Walk up and use, understanding through visualization, self-service
Deriving value from big data
Analytics and visualization that scales with in-memory
Approachable analytics
Integration into the user’s world
Outlook, Office, mobile

The new product (coming in March) has four components:

Environment Manager for setup and monitoring
Visual Analytics Explorer for ad-hoc analysis and discovery
Visual Design for report design (web or [...]

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SAS Executive Viewpoint 2012

February 27, 2012

Dr Goodnight kicked it off the executive viewpoint at the 2012 SAS Inside Intelligence session. SAS had another growth year in 2011 ($2.7B and growth of 12.1%) as Jim highlighted both its continued investment in new buildings around the world and the fact that many SAS locations around the world, and SAS overall, continue to [...]

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Webinar: The use of predictive analytics in Decision Management Systems

February 7, 2012

[ April 11, 2012; 7:00 am to 8:00 am. ] This webinar is at 7am PT, 10am ET and 16:00 CET to support our European customers.

To ensure that Decision Management Systems are analytic and adaptive you must embed the results of data mining and predictive analytics in them. In this webinar you will learn what can be discovered using data mining and predictive analytic techniques [...]

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First Look – KNIME Analytics Workbench update

January 23, 2012

KNIME is an open source data analytics product based in Zurich, Switzerland that I last wrote about a couple of years ago. They have been working away on the product since then (having started development in 2004 and released their enterprise components in 2010) and have been refining their business plan at the same time. [...]

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Keynote: The Intelligent Enterprise:From BI to Predictive Analytics with Decision Management

January 19, 2012

[ February 9, 2012; 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ] I am giving the closing keynote on day 1 of Predictive Analytics and Business Insights 2012 in San Francisco on February 9th at 3:30pm. I will be speaking on “The Intelligent Enterprise: Utilize decision management to move from Business Intelligence to Predictive Analytics” and attending the networking reception afterwards. Other speakers at the event include Saum Mathur – Vice President, [...]

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Here’s how focusing on decisions aligns analytics and business

January 17, 2012

In a recent article over on All Analytics – Analytics-Business Alignment Needs Work – Beth Schultz discussed a set of Gartner predictions written up by Doug Laney. In particular she highlights Gartner’s finding that companies
cited …aligning BI initiatives with corporate strategy and objectives nearly three times as often as they called out technology-related issues
This is [...]

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Webinar: Breaking Down Integration Silos with Holistic Integration

January 10, 2012

[ February 7, 2012; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] I am giving a webinar with Talend on February 7th at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern on holistic integration – the combination of data management, application integration and business process management for best in class integration.

You can register for the webinar here.

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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 – Spotfire 4.0

November 14, 2011

I got a quick update on Spotfire 4.0 recently (announced today – I last reviewed Spotfire in February). This release was aimed primarily at getting analytics to a wider audience through analytic dashboards and social collaboration. As we all know, many people work with others in different locations and time zones. This requires strong context [...]

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Decision Management Orchestrating Consistent Enterprise-wide Decisions #iod11

October 25, 2011

Erick Brethenoux, Pierre-Henri Clouin and Asit Dan presented on IBM’s Decision Management approach – a nice chance to see both the Business Analytics and WebSphere bits of IBM talking about the same problem. CEOs consistently tell IBM that volatility, uncertainty and complexity are continuing issues. CIOs with a mandate to transform the business are responding [...]

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Transformation in the era of big data and analytics #iod11

October 25, 2011

Steve Mills opened up the discussion talking about Big Data, making the point that the art of the possible when it comes to data has been growing steadily for many years – though the current explosion in data is pretty impressive. For instance 1.3B RFID tags in 2005 and 30B in 2010, 4.6B mobile phones [...]

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Analytics Keynote #iod11

October 24, 2011

Deepak Advani kicked off the first day’s analytics keynote by noting the number of different analytics communities that are now part of IBM – Cognos, SPSS, Algorithmics and more. Analytics, he says, is a broad change that is just beginning and will impact everyone. Rob Ashe followed and made the point that the opening keynote [...]

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Pervasive BI: Top Factors for Success

September 19, 2011

Brian McDonough of IDC talked about the drivers for pervasive BI in organizations. He identified various metrics for measuring pervasiveness. Each of these could be assessed (from beginner to expert for instance) to see how well an organization is doing.

Data Update Frequency
Percent of Power Users
Degree of Internal Use
Degree of External Use
Analytical Orientation
Number of Domains

IDC found [...]

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Trends in smarter business analytics

September 19, 2011

Don Campbell, CTO Of IBM’s Business Intelligence group, presented on trends in smarter business analytics. He sees four focus areas – improving customer understanding, optimizing real-time decisions, better enterprise visibility and improved collaboration. All underpinned by managed, trusted data. IBM’s customers tell them that the 3 big challenges are

A lack of understanding of how to [...]

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Predictive Analytics in Healthcare

September 19, 2011

I am attending the Computerworld Business Intelligence and Analytics Perspective conference and just gave the opening keynote “From Business Intelligence to Predictive Analytics.” Following me is the team from Blue Health Intelligence about their innovative use of predictive analytics.
The US healthcare system that is more expensive, less effective and less safe than many other countries’ [...]

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New research council being launched

September 9, 2011

I am a faculty member for the International Institute for Analytics and we are launching a new research effort – the IT Analytics Research Council. Here’s what the official promotional text says:
The International Institute for Analytics (IIA) uses an experience-based research approach to uncover “what’s working” and more importantly “what’s next” in the area of [...]

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