Posts Tagged ‘data’

2nd July 2009

The election in Iran and some real data analysis

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
In 2005, Mr Ahmadinejad got 17 million votes and in 2009 he got 24 million.
The question is, where did all those extra votes come from?
The answer, according to this study, is not at all clear.
I don’t write political or personal posts and, despite first appearances, this is not one either. When I saw [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BI, Data Mining | 0 Comments

10th June 2009

First Look – Lyza

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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posted by James Taylor in BI, Product News | 0 Comments

4th June 2009

First Look – Pervasive DataRush

Pervasive is a global software company with 200+ employees that has been profitable for the last 8 years and best known for btrieve (now Pervasive PSQL) and their data integration products. The company is busy expanding into new markets and Pervasive DataRush is one of their new products. They see a new generation of data [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining, Product News | 0 Comments

13th May 2009

Data is still defensible

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In Is Data a new defensibility? Abhishek Tiwari argues that even data is not defensible any more. He argues that data integration and the use of new sources of data are key skills but that companies cannot use unique data to differentiate because there is too much data and too much of it [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Data Mining, Decision Management | 1 Comment

6th April 2009

First Look – SPSS Predictive Analytic Software 13

Today SPSS Inc. announced new product releases and new naming for its product families. Predictive Analytics Software (PASW) is the new umbrella and the four families are layered below this. The four families are Data Collection, Statistics, Modeling, and Deployment. This week’s enhancements are to the modeling family. In addition, Clementine becomes PASW Modeler 13 [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining, Product News | 0 Comments

4th April 2009

Do We Really Need More Data?

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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posted by James Taylor in BI, Decision Management | 0 Comments

25th March 2009

Business Intelligence or Business Analytics?

Syndicated from ebizQ
At the SAS Global Forum this week some SAS speakers drew a distinction between Business Intelligence – BI – and Business Analytics. This distinction between Business Intelligence (what everyone else does) and Business Analytics (what SAS does) struck me as a distinction without a difference, as a friend of mine used to say.
As [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI | 4 Comments

12th March 2009

Designing and implementing a web-based warranty system

Frank Kozlowski of Kohler presentedf on a web-based warranty system. When they set out to develop the system their goals were to move to a start-of-the-art, easy to use system that was web-based so dealers could enter claims directly anywhere in the world (they have 12,000 dealers). They wanted to reduce their cycle time from [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules | 0 Comments

11th March 2009

Harnessing and Coordinating Warranty Best Practices in a Global Enterprise

Terry Adams of Ingersoll Rand, the parent company of Trane, presented on harnessing and coordinating warranty best practices. IR includes Trance, Thermo King, Schlage, Steelcraft and others for about $17B worldwide. All these acquisitions have experience and systems so Ingersoll Rand has a vision of a Business Operating System to drive common [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Strategy | 0 Comments

9th March 2009

Putting your ultimate asset to work with decision management

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
In a recent piece Data Strategy Journal – DATA: YOUR ULTIMATE ASSET Thomas Redman had a nice intro on the value of data:
An exercise popular in many training courses goes something like this. The class is asked to imagine a fine antique French desk, recently purchased for $20,000. Atop the desk [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Decision Management | 0 Comments

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