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First Look – Oracle Real-Time Decisions Manager

June 6, 2011

Oracle Real-Time Decisions (RTD) is Oracle’s core Decision Management product and I have reviewed it before (see this First Look – Oracle RTD 3 and this one on the Oracle RTD Roadmap). With the release of “Oracle RTD Base Application Release 3.1” in May 2011 Oracle introduced their new “Decision Manager” application. Oracle RTD now [...]

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Big data, big acquisition, still some big questions

March 3, 2011

Teradata announced its intent to acquire Aster Data today. Obviously this is big news in analytics-land and I participated in a call where the two companies gave some quick information.
The driver for the acquisition seems t be an increasing focus on generally unstructured and untapped data and expanding the Teradata portfolio into this adjacent space. [...]

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Aster Webinar: Turn your data into big $$$: What you Need to make this Easy!

January 26, 2011

[ February 8, 2011; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] I am presenting at an Aster Data (see my Aster Data first look here) sponsored webinar on how to Turn your data into big $$$: What you Need to make this Easy! Big data is crushing your systems, and keeping up with ever-increasing storage costs is becoming a challenging task. But there are [...]

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Oracle Real Time Decisions at Dell #oow10

September 20, 2010

I blogged a couple of internal Oracle sessions on RTD (Oracle Real Time Decisions in e-commerce #oow10, Oracle RTD Roadmap #oow10) and now we get a chance to hear a customer speak – Dell with some help from Objectifi. Octane is Dell’s brand name for their RTD project – the platform has a number of [...]

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An update on the warranty industry

March 11, 2009

Eric Arnum, editor of Warranty Week, gave an overview of the industry as a whole. Clearly the recession is taking its toll. Starting with new home builders it has spread to RV makers, auto makers, various retailers, GE and others. Warranty is important in many of these company’s challenges and some, like Hyundai, are trying [...]

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Live from InterACT – Building a Decision Engine

April 28, 2008

Next up was Chris Collard of Dell talking about building a decision engine. Chris had done an implementation at Dell Financial Services and was sharing some of his experience with replicating that at Dell. Chris talks about decision engines as full decomposed applications – data, process and logic all externalized. Chris’ central thesis is
Effective Decision [...]

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