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Protecting the most vulnerable #pawcon

February 16, 2010

John McConnell of Analytical People presented on the use of analytics in the UK’s transition to digital TV. This is being rolled out region by region, trying to improve the process each time. Several regions have been converted already. There is a group of people, in the UK as in other countries, for whom TV [...]

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Inductive Business-Rule Discovery in Text Mining #pawcon

February 16, 2010

Dean Abbott of Abbott Analytics presented on the induction of business rules having become, he said, reacquainted with and convinced of the value of business rules alongside data mining (something, of course, I would strongly support). The particular problem was a call center help desk in which text mining was used to find the rules [...]

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First Look – TRIAD 8.5 and Decision Graph

February 15, 2010

TRIAD 8.5 has just been released and is the latest version of FICO’s combined account manager and customer manager platform for financial services companies (its focus is on accounts/customers where credit risk is a critical issue). I got an update recently focused on Decision Graph. Decision Graph is  one of the new capabilities. Decision Graph [...]

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First Look – Data Applied

January 13, 2010

I got a chance to chat with Data Applied, a new start up that, like Clario (reviewed previously), offers real data mining in the cloud. This product is aimed at business users and is a very data-centric, web-based application for visualization and data mining/deep analysis. They are targeting folks with hundreds of thousands of records [...]

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First Look – Scorto

January 5, 2010

I caught up with a new (to me at least) decisioning platform recently. Scorto works with credit organizations to manage credit risks and make objective decisions when selling mass credit products. They offer what they refer to as decision support (but I would call blended decision management and decision support) in everything from personal/small commercial [...]

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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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Early results from the Rexer data mining survey

November 23, 2009

Karl Rexer of Rexer Analytics sent me a note the other day about some early results of the 3rd Annual Data Miner Survey in the Spring of 2009.  Like the previous surveys (I blogged about the 2008 survey), it  examined data miners’ algorithms and tools, opinions and views, types of data analyzed, challenges encountered, and [...]

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Cost reduction in bill insert campaigns with predictive analytics #paw

October 20, 2009

Stamatis Stefankos gave a presentation on his work with Sunrise Communications to forecast and reduce printing and mailing costs in a CRM context. Sunrise is the #2 telco in Switzerland with mobile and landline customers with 1.7 mobile customers (the majority). They have a typical data infrastructure with a data warehouse that pulls in data [...]

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Bare essentials of making rules work

October 5, 2009

Jim Sinur and Dave McCoy of Gartner hosted a quick session on making rules work at the Gartner BPM show. With only 30 minutes this was quick and dirty and the audience was overwhelmingly people completely new to business rules (though not to BPM). Dave outlined his 5 pieces of advice:

Ignore standards
While it would be [...]

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Putting predictive analytics to work at Premier Bankcard

September 21, 2009

I am giving a tutorial and a presentation on putting predictive analytics to work at the forthcoming Predictive Analytics World show in Washington DC (October 20th-21st with tutorials on the 19th). I always like to illustrate my points with real examples and I am going to be talking about Premier Bankcard, a SAS client. As [...]

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First Look – clario Analytics

July 13, 2009

clario Analytics was founded back in 2002 largely by folks from Fingerhut. The team had been working on mailstream optimization – how to manage catalogs. The best customers of a catalog marketer can get literally 100 catalogs per year and this is not good. Initially a consulting company they raised money in 2006 and launched [...]

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First Look – Angoss 7

June 11, 2009

Angoss has just released a new version of their data mining and predictive analytics software, version 7.0. Key themes for 7 were:

Optimization
Mining enhancements like data weighting, in-database analytics, new statistics
Support for more complex IT environments
Usability

Angoss has long supported the development of strategies or decision trees – models that define the relevant customer segments for a [...]

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First Look – FICO Blaze Advisor 6.7 and Decision Simulator

June 1, 2009

Back in March FICO released 6.7 of their BRMS Blaze Advisor. I got a chance to catch up with the release just recently. The focus of this release was the business user experience – an improved out of the box experience for business users. The business user experience has become increasingly critical as business users [...]

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Chordiant Decision Management Update

May 19, 2009

I got a chance to sit down with Rob Walker last week for an update on Chordiant Decision Manager. Rob covered some of the new features in Chordiant Decision Management 6.2 as well as some general background that has not appeared in any of my posts before (check out First Look – Chordiant Decision Management [...]

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First Look – DeltaR onRules

April 22, 2009

Delta-R’s product onRules is Java-based, service oriented application. Based on open source like the Spring, Hibernate, Java Server Faces r UI, Groovy for scripting etc. It is fully web based – thin client – and the resulting services are deployed as web services. It is available in English and Spanish.
The software starts with a tree/pane [...]

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First Look – KNIME

April 7, 2009

I got a chance to chat with the folks from KNIME recently to discuss their workbench. KNIME is essentially a workbench to define the pipeline of operations you want throw at your data, typically as part of doing analytic work. It allows you to do complex things to the data and document your process – [...]

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Salesforce is getting smarter

March 19, 2009

Decision Management Solutions attended the Santa Clara Cloudforce 2009 event yesterday and heard CEO Marc Benioff present “Welcome to the Real-time Cloud” in which he introduced some great features in their spring 2009 release and demonstrated, once again, that salesforce.com is paying attention. Salesforce.com has clearly realized that the next step for enterprise [...]

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First Look – Incanto

March 13, 2009

I got a chance to look at a new decision product this week – Incanto from Qualia Systems in the UK. Incanto is a decision modeling tool and the founders of the company describe their objective as providing both a “scribble pad” where you could have a continual development process, moving pieces around until what [...]

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Here’s how decisions and rules relate (and how to manage them)

March 5, 2009

One of the questions I get often is around how decisions and business rules relate. People want to know so they can design their system and so they can manage change. I recently got a request for a link to a post describing the difference and I realize that, though I have lots of posts [...]

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First Look – Visual Rules

March 5, 2009

I sat down with Innovations Software Technology, now part of the Bosch group, to get my first good look at Visual Rules in a while. Release 4.4 is the current version (they released 4.3 in November and 4.4 just this week).
The tool is written in Java and based on Eclipse. About half their users are [...]

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