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Two more analytics jobs

February 22, 2010

I recently spoke to an interesting company getting serious about analytics and looking for some staff. Drop me a line james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com if you are interested and I will forward your resume along:

Data Mining / Analytics Business Analyst
Senior Business Analyst with data mining and predictive analytics experience to lead the establishment of a decision support system [...]

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First Look – Quantivo

February 11, 2010

I got a briefing from Quantivo recently. This is a company focused on behavioral analytics – uncovering patterns within the mountains of customer data that companies have – web analytics and point of sale data for instance. They help companies find these patterns, find the insight that they are not seeing with their current tools, [...]

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First Look – Dulles Research Carolina

January 14, 2010

I recently met the folks at Dulles Research, a scientific computing outfit focused on analytic solutions for enterprise software. The folks who founded Dulles had previously worked at Marketswitch (focused on large scale optimization and sold to Experian in 2004) and have a long history of working with companies who are serious about using analytics [...]

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Webinar – big data in the cloud #cloud

January 5, 2010

My friends over on SmartData Collective (where this blog is syndicated) have an interesting webinar coming up on “Risks and Rewards of Big Data in the Cloud”. Intended to address the reality of data warehousing in the public cloud, it’s on January 13, 2010 1 PM EDT / 10 AM PDT. Register for The [...]

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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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Some interesting SAS-Teradata news

October 27, 2009

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I am spending some time with SAS this week and I was struck by a couple of announcements related to the ongoing SAS/Teradata partnership. First, the two companies have partnered with Elder Research to create a Business Analytics Innovation Center. This will both pilot new analytics (something at which John and his team [...]

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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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Do We Really Need More Data?

April 4, 2009

Stephen Few had another of his great posts on his Visual Business Intelligence blog – Do We Really Need More Data?. Stephen’s posts are always worth readingg – I highly recommend the blog – and this one prompted me to comment and I thought I would reproduce the comment here.
I see this problem regularly, albeit [...]

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Customer Stories from the SAS Global Forum

April 1, 2009

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Last week I posted a couple of times about my impressions from the SAS Global Forum. In one post I said that “SAS customers talk about the great results they get when they put their predictive analytics to work in operational systems” so I thought I should expand on that a little, using [...]

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Quality and warranty cost reduction strategies

March 12, 2009

Jim Johnson of IBM gave IBM’s point of view on quality lifecycle management. Jim works in Global Services and works with auto and truck manufacturers. IBM’s research shows:

That warranty reserves accrue at between 1% and 3% of sales and this is continuing to increase.
Detection to correction cycles average over 100 days and can exceed 220
Electronics [...]

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First Look – Truviso

March 3, 2009

I got a second chance to chat with the folks at Truviso recently. Truviso was founded after a Professor and his PhD student, at Berkeley went back to the fundamentals of data management and predicated that in a world of highly interconnected objects it would be necessary to eliminate the batch-centric database process of “store [...]

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The future of Data Warehouses

December 9, 2008

An article caught my eye in the Teradata Magazine this month – Steve Brobst, CTO of Teradata, outlined 4 areas he thinks will drive data warehousing: Sensor Technology Pervasive BI In Database AnalyticsNon-Traditional Data Types I don’t disagree with Steve…

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From Data Warehousing to Strategic Data Assets

December 2, 2008

Usama Fayyad, previously Chief Data Officer of Yahoo, presented a keynote on From Data Warehousing to Strategic Data Assets – Case Studies on the Web: Social Networking, Direct-Response Marketing and Understanding Customer Behavior.
The number of users on the web continues to grow rapidly, approaching 1Bn. The data created as these users move around the web [...]

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Critical Success Factors for successful BI and analytic implementations

December 2, 2008

A panel of the keynote presenters discussed critical success factors for BI and analytics. Panels are tricky to blog so this is just going to be a list of thoughts generated by the panelists with no attempt to assign them to the individuals. Critical success factors, then, include:

You must understand what drives high performance for [...]

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Decision Management, Tom Davenport and the New BI

December 2, 2008

Tom wrote an interesting post this week on 10 Principles of the New Business Intelligence and made a couple of really good points:
1. Decisions are the unit of work to which BI initiatives should be applied.
2. Providing access to data and tools isn’t enough if you want to ensure that decisions are actually improved.
I like [...]

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Some thoughts on the prime business decision loop

May 2, 2008

Tom Jesionowski recently published an article on TDAN about The Prime Business Decision Loop. Tom had sent me a copy in advance to look over and I thought I would blog about it and publish my comments as I think he has made a valuable contribution to the discussion around decision making with the loop.
I [...]

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Live from InterACT – Automate, Improve and Connect

April 29, 2008

Paul Daro was next giving some detail around the new architecture (introduced by Bernhard Nann). A number of trends were identified first:

Clearly the move to a collection of services from monolithic applications has fundamentally changed the relationship of vendors to customers – now more about delivering services that can be fitted in to an overall [...]

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First Look – Attensity

April 25, 2008

Attensity is a text analytics company based in Silicon Valley and Utah that is focused on helping companies hear the “voice of the customer”. By allowing companies to effectively process the text in emails, service logs, call notes and, more recently, forums, blogs and wikis, Attensity aims to make companies both aware of their customers’ [...]

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First Look – i-luminate

April 18, 2008

Neil and I caught up with Joe Foley, Chief Architect and Kirsten Chapman, VP Global Marketing and Alliances from i-lluminate this week. illuminate (www.i-lluminate.com) is a Spanish company that has recently begun to expand in the US.
illuminate is trying to tackle what it sees as the unsolved performance problem of ad-hoc analysis in companies who [...]

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New Research – Dynamic Workloads and Data Warehouses

March 31, 2008

Neil has just finished some research work on data warehouse performance for our friends at Teradata published as Meeting Demands for Data Warehouse Performance.   This white paper discusses how expanding operational roles for data warehouses, particularly in terms of supporting operational decision making and enterprise decision management, require dynamic workload capabilities on the data [...]

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