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Some thoughts on advanced analytics in 2010

December 21, 2009

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James Kobielus had a nice list of Advanced Analytics Predictions For 2010 over on the Forrester blog. As usual James is thought provoking with some interesting predictions. Let’s start with the one’s with which I agree most strongly.

Advanced analytics sinks deep roots in the data warehouse
Absolutely. In database/in warehouse analytics will become more [...]

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First Look – SAS Enterprise Miner/Model Manager

December 3, 2009

The folks from SAS gave me a quick update the other day on SAS Enterprise Miner and SAS Model Manager, two of SAS’ data mining/predictive analytics products. I often blog about SAS, as you would expect, but I have not done any product posts. SAS’ Business Analytics Framework is focused on helping organizations find the [...]

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KPI framework for a competitive edge

November 12, 2009

I am hosting a panel on Predictive Analytics at the Business Analytics Summit and I got a chance to attend a session beforehand where Dave Stodder presented on performance management and Key Performance Indicators.
Dave began by emphasizing that performance management is both a business and IT issue and that it needs to [...]

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New BeyeNetwork Radio Show

November 10, 2009

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I participated in BeyeNetwork’s Radio Show this morning and we had some interesting discussions around analytics and in-memory analytics. Check out the recording of our discussion on business analytics, in-memory databases and the BI maturity curve: http://www.b-eye-network.com/listen/12070

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SAS – An executive overview

October 27, 2009

I am spending some time as a guest of SAS this week and we got started today with Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS. He began by describing SAS Institute’s 33 years of continuous revenue growth as well as similarly growing reinvestment in R&D. SAS has not laid anyone off this year, for which kudos, and [...]

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The Evolution and Future of Business Intelligence

September 29, 2009

Rob Walker of Chordiant wrote a nice little piece for Information Management recently – The Evolution and Future of Business Intelligence.

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New article contrasting decision management and various other topics

September 1, 2009

One of the most useful ways to define an approach is to contrast it with other established approaches. Decision Management is often compared with various kinds of Business Intelligence and with Business Process Management. And because Decision Management uses Business Rules and Data Mining or Business Analytics, it is also compared with these approaches individually. [...]

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IBM, SPSS and a sea change in decision management

August 25, 2009

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I was attending IBM’s launch of its analytic appliances when it announced its intent to acquire SPSS. I did not get a chance to write much more at the time but I did not want to let the opportunity pass completely.I think the announcement represents a sea change in the decision management [...]

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IBM Analytics Appliance

July 28, 2009

The scheduled announcements today were about a new analytics appliance.
Steve Mills set the scene, pointing out that business optimization (a market in which IBM includes analytics projects) is getting client investment at 2x the general business automation market. Personally I think this is why decision management is going to be more and more important relative [...]

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IBM and SPSS

July 28, 2009

UPDATED BASED ON CALL – see below
In NY for IBM’s Analytics announcements. The original agenda has been overtaken by events – IBM bought SPSS this morning. Ambuj Goyal came on to talk about SPSS and focused on their predictive analytics software. SPSS is very widely used – 250,000 customers in all sorts of industries across [...]

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Update – illumuniate

July 21, 2009

Since I last got updated on illuminate (see the first look on i-lluminate) they have been focusing on their business model. While illuminate is a general purpose database they have been focusing on data warehousing as an initial market– with business analytics applications to follow. The data warehouse market has various segments based on size. [...]

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First Look – IBM and SPSS

July 1, 2009

I got a chance to catch up with the folks from IBM/Cognos to discuss their (fairly) recent announcement of a formal OEM relationship with SPSS for PASW Statistics (briefly reviewed here). I discussed their original, less formal, partnership previously. IBM Cognos has a long alliance history with SPSS, often working with them to co-sell into [...]

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On supporting decision management and collaborative decision making

June 26, 2009

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Timo Elliot had an interesting post Gartner on Collaborative Decision Making in which he discussed a report from Gartner called The Rise of Collaborative Decision Making (and thanks to Nic Smith of Microsoft for the link). This kind of ad-hoc, collaborative decision making is critical in companies and technology to support it is [...]

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First Look – Vitria M3O

June 16, 2009

I got an update on Vitria for the first time in a few years a little while back. Vitria started back in 1994 with Enterprise Application Integration capabilities and has added Business Process Management, Business Activity Monitoring and ultimately Business Event Management/Complex Event Processing functionality over the last few years. They are using “Operational Intelligence” [...]

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First Look – Lyza

June 10, 2009

I got a chance to see Lyzasoft‘s new product in action recently. Lyzasoft aims to provide a desktop product for business people to do analysis that can seamlessly scale up, unlike (say) spreadsheet based analysis. The product is based around a column store.
Workbooks are the core metaphor and these are used to assemble flows. Data [...]

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Users don’t have analytic skills? Try decision management

June 9, 2009

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Last week I posted Use decision management to make systems smarter and I got two interesting comments. Ronald made an excellent point first:
I don’t think the lack of deep analytic tools is the prime reason for BI not being intelligent. In my opinion it’s the lack of education and skills concerning analytical methods [...]

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Use decision management to make systems smarter

June 5, 2009

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Michael Vizard had an interesting post (via @merv) – Making Business Intelligence Applications Smarter in which he began with the great phrase:
One perplexing oxymoron of IT industry is the simple fact that most business intelligence applications are not all that smart
In Smart (Enough) Systems Neil and I argued that the way to make [...]

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Beyond Predictive BI

May 15, 2009

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David Linthicum‘s recent blog post Approaching Predictive BI made me want to reiterate some of my thinking around BI (on which I have a whole category) on my blog. I often talk about going “beyond BI” with decision management. I distinguish between BI and Decision Management because BI helps you understand your business [...]

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Leverging BPM and BI to create agile business processes

May 6, 2009

A crossover session combining WebSphere BPM and Cognos BI.  Linking BI and BPM allows you to leverage insight from your information across multiple applications and processes. You can extend process execution data to BI users, you can improve decision points within your process using BI and you can enhance business activity monitoring with BI. The [...]

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Final keynotes on SmartSOA and more

May 6, 2009

Gerry Mooney – IBM’s point man for fiscal stimulus and economic recovery. He feels that the Smarter Planet initiative and the current economy/stimulus are closely linked, at least potentially. Stimulus money could be focused on managing the current crisis more effectively but it could also be used to build a 21st Century infrastructure. In addition, [...]

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