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Customer intimacy #bas2010

September 29, 2010

Customer intimacy is a hot topic these days. Customers are getting more complex because not only are they using multiple channels but because they have multiple online personalities – work, home, on behalf of a parent or child and so on. The fact that consumers trust each other (78%) but not ads (13% trust for [...]

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First Look – Aster Data

September 22, 2010

I listened in to the Boulder BI Brain Trust briefing from Aster some weeks back and then got a follow-on update last week. Aster was founded in 2005 based on research performed by a team at Stanford. The initial plan was to develop a data management platform based on commodity hardware and this was released [...]

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First Look – Cloudera

September 21, 2010

I got my first chance to catch up with the folks at Cloudera recently. Founded in 2008 Cloudera has nothing really to do with “cloud” and focuses instead on “big data” – helping organizations capture, integrate and analyze new sources of detailed business data. Cloudera like to describe themselves as the RedHat for Hadoop – [...]

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Oracle RTD Roadmap #oow10

September 20, 2010

The Oracle Real Time Decisions (RTD) roadmap began with a quick review of Oracle RTD (see my earlier post on the role of RTD in e-commerce) – an analytical decision service that sits between the operational and analytic applications of an organization so that operational business processes can be analytically enhanced. Crucially it combines prescriptive [...]

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Oracle Real Time Decisions in e-commerce #oow10

September 20, 2010

I am attending a few sessions at Oracle OpenWorld this week and the first one is an overview of Oracle Real-Time Decisions (RTD) in e-commerce. I have reviewed RTD 3.0 before. The context for using RTD is that consumers are harder to reach, satisfy and retain – their behavior evolves more quickly, there is more [...]

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First Look – Predixion

September 14, 2010

Predixion Software launched their new product – Predixion Insight – this week and I got a pre-launch briefing.  Founded in 2009 based in Southern California and Redmond (development team is ex-Microsoft and the chairman is ex-Datallegro), their focus is on self-service predictive analytics, delivered through the cloud and accessible via Excel.  Information workers are the [...]

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Why thinking about decisions should be a BI best practice

September 10, 2010

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
I was struck today by a short but effective Information Builders PowerPoint – Four Worst and Four Best Practices in Business Intelligence. I really liked the worst practices – especially the one about assuming that business people have the skills or time to learn to use a BI tool. I blogged [...]

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Fall webinar series announced

August 30, 2010

I just scheduled and announced four new webinars for this fall:

Simplifying over-complex processes
Delivering customer centricity across multiple channels, multiple platforms
Implementing analytics? You need business rules
Decision analytics – more than BI and web analytics

You can find all my upcoming events in the Events Calendar.

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Webinar – Decision analytics – more than BI and web analytics

August 30, 2010

Analytics means putting all your data, not just your web data, to work improving the way your web site works. It means using your historical data not for reporting but for predicting and driving new and more effective behavior across the company. It means putting all your data to work improving decision-making.
This webinar will show [...]

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Webinar – Implementing analytics? You need business rules

August 30, 2010

Putting business analytics to work is top of mind for organizations like yours. Business agility and operational responsiveness are more important than ever. There is a real opportunity to use analytics – especially predictive analytics – to seek out increasingly small margins and understand your customers, products, channels, partners and more. But predictive analytics is [...]

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Gathering BI/DW requirements

August 24, 2010

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
There was a great article this week over on the Requirements Network – Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Requirements Elicitation. Where do You Begin? I really liked the fact that early in the discussion the author said:
After establishing these strategic objectives, make it a priority to get your users [...]

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Lyzasoft Update

July 28, 2010

Some weeks back I got an update from Lyzasoft but I have not been able to post it until now. I first wrote about Lyzasoft back in 2009 and since then the company has been busy. The company’s vision remains the same – to create a way for end users to work with BI that [...]

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Fall events to learn more about decision management

July 27, 2010

Syndicated from ebizQ
I am speaking or giving workshops at three events this fall and all three represent good opportunities for you to learn more about decision management:
First up is RuleFest 2010 in San Jose October 11-14. I am speaking on October 12 10:00 am to 10:50 on “Decision Services Need More Than Rules”. Rules Fest bills [...]

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New webinar – Trendspotting for growth

July 1, 2010

[ July 15, 2010; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] I am acting as host for a Smart Data Collective webinar “Trendspotting for Growth: Finding the patterns that lead to smarter action with Analytics” on July 15, 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT. You can register here and I hope to see you there.

As companies using analytics know, data is key [...]

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Speaking at Business Rules Forum 2010

June 30, 2010

[ October 21, 2010; 6:00 am to 7:00 am. ] I am giving a keynote at the Business Rules Forum called “Decisions have 3 Bs”
Business Process, Business Rules, Business Intelligence. Three “B”s that drive IT investment. Often considered separate domains, separate sets of technologies, each B has its own center of excellence, its own methodology, its own experts. But this Balkanization pushes apart technologies that [...]

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Business rules forum – register now!

June 28, 2010

There are just a few days left to secure the Super Early Bird Price for the 13th International Business Rules Forum 2010 so register here. Join me October 17-21 at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, VA. This year your Business Rules Forum pass gives you access to three conferences [...]

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First Look – Verix

May 14, 2010

I got my first look at Verix recently. Verix targets the commercial side of Pharmaceutical companies – sales first, then managed care and then marketing. They are trying to shift the burden of analysis work from sales managers, sales consultants to automated systems. They started with a core analytic competency and it evolved over time [...]

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A pet peeve about map interfaces

May 5, 2010

As you may know, May 6 is election day in the UK. As I grew up there I have been taking an informed foreigner’s interest in it, mostly through my favorite online newspaper The Guardian. Browsing around the election coverage I came across a page that reminded me why I hate all the map-based interface [...]

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Teradata in the cloud

April 27, 2010

Dan Graham and Mike Riordan presented on Teradata’s cloud strategy. They began with a quick reminder that a cloud involves on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and pay per use. Teradata is currently testing and developing for clouds and virtualization – Teradata Express.
They are working with amazon.com’s web services team for instance [...]

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Teradata – Coca Cola and customer intelligence

April 27, 2010

Justin Honaman from Coca Cola presented on their use of Teradata in their customer intelligence program.  Coca Cola has a huge range of products, in many sizes, as well as dozens of bottlers and distribution partners. The 72 bottlers are limited to specific geographies, adding a layer of complexity to their business. Justin’s group, Customer [...]

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