in-database analytics

Register for the first Decision Management Systems Platform Report webinar

February 3, 2012

The first webinar from my ongoing research into Decision Management Systems Platforms is coming up on February 16th at 10am PT – register here  for Four platform capabilities for Decision Management Systems.
This webinar kicks off what will be a continuing series of webinars as our definitive report on Decision Management Systems Technology Platforms comes to fruition [...]

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Webinar: Four Platform Capabilities for Decision Management Systems

February 2, 2012

[ February 16, 2012; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] I will be giving a webinar on Four platform capabilities for Decision Management Systems on February 16th at 10am Pacific. This webinar kicks off the first installment of our definitive report on Decision Management Systems Technology Platforms. This report describes the wide range of technology available for building this exciting class of systems – Business Rules [...]

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Definitive Report on Decision Management Systems Platforms coming in 2012

December 15, 2011

2011 has been a great year for market awareness of Decision Management as an approach and of the value of Decision Management Systems. Product, partnership, acquisition and funding announcements have enhanced the available technology. As vendors continue to improve and enhance their product offerings to fully support Decision Management this is only going to reinforce and further [...]

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First Look – Oracle Data Mining Update

August 4, 2011

I got an update from Oracle on Oracle Data Mining (ODM) recently. ODM is an in-database data mining and predictive analytics engine that allows you to build and use advanced predictive analytic models on data that can be accessed through your Oracle data infrastructure. I blogged about ODM extensively last year in this First Look [...]

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First Look – IBM In-Database Analytics

August 2, 2011

IBM SPSS has been supporting in-database analytic modeling for a while now. Their objective is to make it possible for analysts to run the complete data mining process end-to-end in-database – from accessing the data to data transformation and model building/scoring. In particular, they try to enable analysts to push data transformation and data preparation [...]

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Update – Zementis

June 9, 2011

I got a chance to catch up with Zementis. I last got an update from them on the product back in May 2010 when they released 3.0 with their support of Drools as well as PMML. Zementis is reporting good momentum with large customers such as the US Army and Verizon as well as a [...]

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Smarter Customer Analytics and Decision Management with IBM

June 2, 2011

We got a quick overview of SPSS Decision Management (see my post on SPSS DM 6 or indeed the whole blog for my view of this). SPSS Decision Management combines predictive analytics, business rules and optimization/simulation to optimize high volume decisions like “should I search this car at the border” or “should I investigate this [...]

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Predictive Analytics spotlight from IBM

June 2, 2011

Deepak Advani kicked off day 2. SPSS was acquired by IBM in 2009 and, like all acquisitions, has to report on how well it has met the expectations set at acquisition time. SPSS has beaten every target set for it at acquisition and reviews have apparently been a “bit of a love fest”. SPSS has [...]

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In-database analytics and Decision Management

May 3, 2011

One of the hot topics these days in analytics is “in-database” or “in-warehouse” analytics. I have blogged about multiple products in this space including the work SAS has done with Teradata, Aster, DB2 , Netezza  and Greenplum, the work Revolution Analytics has done with Netezza, Angoss and FuzzyLogix (described in this report). With all this [...]

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Role of Business Intelligence in process improvement

April 29, 2011

Bill Gassman spoke on the role of Business Intelligence – BI – in process improvement. Bill means “big BI” – everything to do with intelligence about your business, the discipline of BI and analytics, not just a “BI” product. The road to intelligent operations he says has “haves” and “have nots” – some have BI [...]

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First Look – Revolution and Netezza

April 19, 2011

Revolution Analytics and Netezza have recently announced a partnership. Netezza has a strong history of being associated with customers that are focused on “big data” problems and advanced analytics. As a result they have been delivering in-database analytics to bring these analytics closer to the data. Their approach allows customers and partners to bring Java, [...]

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Update – Angoss

April 18, 2011

I got an update from Angoss recently. It has been a while since I was updated on the product – I last blogged about 7.0 which was the last major release. 7.5 is an upgrade from this version –a maintenance release – with 7.6 planned for the end of 2011 and 8.0 due out around [...]

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SAS Sales and Marketing Overview

March 7, 2011

Carl Farrell came up to talk about sales enablement and execution. 2010 was an interesting year in the Americas as the recovery was very inconsistent between countries in the Americas and across verticals. Strong growth in First Year Fees – 21% in US, 15% in Canada and 56% nearly in Latin America (with the Southern [...]

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First Look – SAS High Performance Computing

March 7, 2011

I caught up with SAS recently to discuss their high-performance computing products. SAS’ high performance computing products are designed to address some known customer challenges such as underutilized computing resources, rapidly growing data volume and complexity, unnecessary data movement, and slow time to results because underlying hardware infrastructure is maxed out. Add in a general [...]

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An Update – SAP BI and EIM 4.0

February 22, 2011

It’s been a while since a major release of BusinessObjects/SAP BI so 4.0 is a big deal – over a million person hours invested. SAP’s overall focus is to help companies “run smarter” and obviously the work on BI 4.0 has to be part of this overall environment – how do analytics help companies run [...]

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First Look – Calpont InfiniDB

November 18, 2010

I got my first chance to catch up with Calpont recently. Calpont is a privately held company based in Frisco TX with 25 employees. They have been developing their analytics database technology over the past 2.5 years. InfiniDB Enterprise is the commercial product released in February 2010 and InfiniDB GPL version was launched in October [...]

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First Look – Aster Data

September 22, 2010

I listened in to the Boulder BI Brain Trust briefing from Aster some weeks back and then got a follow-on update last week. Aster was founded in 2005 based on research performed by a team at Stanford. The initial plan was to develop a data management platform based on commodity hardware and this was released [...]

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Some thoughts on SAP/Sybase, CEP and decisioning

May 13, 2010

There have been a number of twitter conversations around the recent SAP/Sybase news that make me want to write more than 140 characters in response. These fall into three main categories:

Does the announcement have an impact on those considering decision management strategies
What, exactly, do mobile workers need and does Sybase deliver this for [...]

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Teradata Customer Warner Bros Home Entertainment

April 28, 2010

Thomas Tileston of Warner Bros Home Entertainment (DVDs, games and digital distribution part of Warner Bros) was next talking about their use of SAS and Teradata. He started with a little history as he has been using SAS for 20 years or so.

In the early days analytical data set preparation was 70% of the work [...]

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Teradata Database 13.10

April 27, 2010

Todd Walters introduced the new release – 13.10. Not every feature is equally interesting to me but a couple were important to note:
One of the key features in the new database release is the support for temporal tables. Default for a temporal table will be to show only current records. But you can ask simple [...]

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