in-database analytics

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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First Look – Oracle Data Mining

April 27, 2010

I got an update on Oracle Data Mining – the in-database solution for data mining and predictive analytics offered by Oracle – recently. They have made ODM available on the amazon compute cloud so you can easily try it and they have been doing some interesting work on a new GUI and on integration with [...]

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First Look – SAS In-Database Analytics

April 12, 2010

SAS has been rolling out its in-database and in-warehouse analytics over the last few months and I thought it was time to get an update. SAS sees its in-database strategy as one way to address some of the challenges in putting analytics to work, especially in high-volume operational environments. In-database analytics can reduce the time [...]

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Oracle Data Mining on the Amazon compute cloud

March 3, 2010

I just heard from a colleague that you can check out Oracle’s Data Mining tools on the amazon.com compute cloud.  The Oracle Data Mining development team has set up an instance for prospective customers who want to try the in-database data mining algorithms via SQL/Java APIs or the Oracle Data Miner user interface. You can [...]

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In-database analytics – a white paper

February 25, 2010

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My co-author on Smart (Enough) Systems, Neil Raden, has written a great white paper on in-database analytics that is available from Sybase – Analytics from the start. This paper introduces the key concepts, discusses some of the key issues (our book contains more tips in this area) and describes some strong case examples. [...]

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Some thoughts on advanced analytics in 2010

December 21, 2009

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James Kobielus had a nice list of Advanced Analytics Predictions For 2010 over on the Forrester blog. As usual James is thought provoking with some interesting predictions. Let’s start with the one’s with which I agree most strongly.

Advanced analytics sinks deep roots in the data warehouse
Absolutely. In database/in warehouse analytics will become more [...]

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