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Decision Management and In-Memory Technology

May 10, 2013

In-memory databases and in-memory analytics are interesting technologies when it comes to Decision Management Systems. Memory is thousands of times faster than disk and the amount of memory on a node is increasing rapidly. Putting data is put in memory and executing analytics against it, especially if the analytics engine has plenty of memory too, can [...]

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First Look: Informatica CEP

April 25, 2013

I got caught up with Informatica recently, checking in with them on their Complex Event Processing (CEP) technologies. They have recently been talking about decision management, especially in healthcare where their new Informatica Proactive Healthcare Decision Management solution is based on their CEP engine.
Like me Informatica see a historical, summarization focus in business intelligence (BI) [...]

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First Look: IBM SPSS Modeler Update

April 16, 2013

It has been a while since I was updated on IBM SPSS Modeler and I got an update from IBM recently. IBM SPSS Modeler is, of course, IBM’s primary data mining and predictive analytics workbench. It uses a standard workflow metaphor, letting you string together nodes that process data, run algorithms, score data, etc. Both [...]

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IBM Big Data Platform Announcements #bigdatamgmt

April 3, 2013

Next up is Inhi Suh focusing on the Big Data platform announcements. She began by reiterating the various use cases Bob mentioned earlier:

Enrich your information base by analyzing more data faster
Improve customer interaction with richer view of customer
Reduce risk and prevent fraud in security/intelligence
Optimize infrastructure and monetize data
Gain IT efficiency and scale with better data [...]

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IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration #bigdatamgmt

April 3, 2013

Tim Vincent, CTO of Information Management, came next to talk about DB2 with BLU Acceleration.
He began by identifying several different kinds of workloads and scenarios that the new solution is designed to address and pointed out the context for this is rapidly changing hardware capabilities and pricing. Memory prices are falling,bandwidth inside machines is increasing, solid [...]

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IBM Big Data Management Launch – Kickoff #bigdatamgmt

April 3, 2013

I am attending the IBM Big Data Management launch today and will do my best to blog it as it happens. Steve Mills, on video, kicked things off.
Steve began by pointing out that the price performance boost of recent years has made a whole new class of use cases reasonable. In particular more data is [...]

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First Look: Teradata Aster Update

April 3, 2013

I got an update from the folks at Teradata on the Teradata Aster platform recently. I have been briefed on various partnerships around Teradata before – they are very active working with analytics providers on making sure that in-database analytic engines work on Teradata – but had not been briefed specifically on Teradata Aster.
Aster was [...]

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First Look: Precog

March 28, 2013

Precog was founded in late 2010 to solve the challenges identified by the founder when he was working on developing an online advertising platform. An online ad platform generates a tremendous amount of data, data that can be used to target ads or select specific creative for an ad, but managing and using this data [...]

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SAS Data Management #sassb

March 4, 2013

Keith transitioned into talking about Data Management. He begun by pointing out that better business decisions rely on data – you need data in the right place, at the right time, in the right form to the right people (or, I would add, systems). As companies by more SaaS packages to run their business, this [...]

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Big Data Analytics #sassb

March 4, 2013

Paul Kent, VP of Big Data, came up next and gave a white board talk with no slides. His initial focus was on parallel processing for analytics, something that SAS has been working on for a while and that is key to their HPA and Big Data approaches. He points out that some problems (min [...]

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SAS Inside Intelligence 2013 – Kicking off #sassb

March 4, 2013

Jim Davis kicked off the annual SAS analyst event. SAS sees their work on in-memory analytics in recent years as another major change in the way companies handle data and develop analytics, especially when combined with their work on taking advantage of this with their new visual analytics interfaces. This, he says, is going to [...]

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First Look – SAP Predictive Analysis

December 6, 2012

SAP has recently announcement some new predictive analytic offerings. At the core are in-database predictive analytics and R integration based on SAP HANA and a new predictive modeling tool, SAP Predictive Analysis. The latter is aimed to close the gap between “pure” data miners/modelers and the business analysts that might typically use tools like SAP [...]

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First Look – SQLStream

December 3, 2012

The move over recent years has been towards increasingly distributed processing of data, both in terms of the underlying model and in terms of the processing architectures available. More and more of this data is also streaming and SQLstream is focused on effective access to streaming big data. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San [...]

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First Look – Angoss 8.0

November 1, 2012

I have previously written about Angoss and its products (most recently this post on their 7.5 release) and recently got an update. As a company Angoss is focused on delivering data mining and predictive analytics to improve performance in sales, marketing and risk. They have a set of products for desktop, client/server and cloud-based and [...]

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First Look – Salford Systems

August 6, 2012

Salford Systems was founded in 1983 and initially developed SAS procedure– add-ons for SAS. They then worked with a PC-based statistics package before moving solidly into data mining and predictive analytics after meeting the inventors of the CART algorithm around 1990. Their product range now consists of CART®, TreeNet® stochastic gradient boosting, MARS®, RandomForests®, GPS™ [...]

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Top 10 excuses to avoid business rules: #7 why do I need more technology?

June 21, 2012

7. Why do I need more technology to handle business logic?
This excuse comes up both in forward-looking companies that have made an effort to standardize on a set of technology and on technology-resistors who like to stick only with technology they have been using for years. Let’s drill into some of the specific excuses that [...]

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Real-time Infrastructure for Decision Management

April 18, 2012

It used to be that analytics were applied in batch, updating the database with a score or customer segment based on yesterday’s data.
It used to be that these models could take months to implement, so that the models themselves were based on data that might be months out of date.
It used to be that analytic [...]

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First Look – BigML

April 10, 2012

While there are many machine learning packages out there, BigML is trying to make them usable by people with just a little experience – to improve the learning curve of machine learning techniques. At the same time they also address the scale challenge as Gigabytes of data override the traditional algorithms. Their product is therefore [...]

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First Look – SAS High-Performance Analytics appliances

April 2, 2012

High-Performance Analytics from SAS consists of SAS Grid Computing, SAS In-Database Analytics and SAS In-Memory Analytics. The latter component has a new addition in the form of SAS High-Performance Analytics (SAS HPA), which was announced in Dec. 2011. SAS HPA is appliance-ready software that uses hardware from database partners (Teradata or EMC Greenplum) for high [...]

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First Look – Rapid Insight Analytics

March 28, 2012

Rapid Insight was founded 10 years ago to develop tools that were easier for analysts to use to quickly extract meaning from data. Rapid Insight has been focused in higher education until recently and is expanding into fund raising and other areas. Rapid Insight Analytics is a pure data mining or predictive analytic workbench designed [...]

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