22nd
June
2009
I got a briefing from ID Analytics recently – mostly to catch up on their new service for consumers My ID Score (https://myidscore.com).
ID Analytics has historically been focused on B2B services – helping companies identify applications that are potentially fraudulent. They have an ID Network that collects information from 6 of the top 10 credit [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Product News |
10th
June
2009
I got a chance to see Lyzasoft’s new product in action recently. Lyzasoft aims to provide a desktop product for business people to do analysis that can seamlessly scale up, unlike (say) spreadsheet based analysis. The product is based around a column store.
Workbooks are the core metaphor and these are used to assemble flows. Data [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, Product News |
19th
May
2009
Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
Merv Adrian recently posted on Information Builders Prepares to Ramp It Up and this made me think of webFocus. Like Merv I recently spoke with Michael Corcoran and learned a little more about Information Builder’s attitude to decision making and information.
The webFocus page says “Because Everyone Makes Decisions” and pushing information access and [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, Decision Management |
15th
May
2009
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David Linthicum’s recent blog post Approaching Predictive BI made me want to reiterate some of my thinking around BI (on which I have a whole category) on my blog. I often talk about going “beyond BI” with decision management. I distinguish between BI and Decision Management because BI helps you understand your business [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Decision Management |
6th
May
2009
A crossover session combining WebSphere BPM and Cognos BI. Linking BI and BPM allows you to leverage insight from your information across multiple applications and processes. You can extend process execution data to BI users, you can improve decision points within your process using BI and you can enhance business activity monitoring with BI. The [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, BPM |
13th
April
2009
I often write about the difference between decision support systems and the kind of systems that result from applying decision management – decision management applications. For instance, this post on To Hell with Business Intelligence, try Decision Management and this interview with Dan Power. Last week I came across a great way to describe the [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Business Rules, Decision Management, Optimization |
10th
April
2009
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TDWI had an interview with Michael Corcoran of Information Builders recently – Q&A: Pushing BI Beyond Business Managers: TDWI in which he had a great phrase:
“Information can have a dramatic, positive behavioral effect when it is directly available”
I am not familiar with the WebFOCUS platform – if anyone from Information Builders wants to [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Decision Management |
6th
April
2009
Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
It can sometimes be lonely being a proponent of a big new idea like decision management. It is delightful, then, when you find out that you are less alone than you expected. Last week I came across a couple of white papers from Ventana Research – Extending BI to Support Operational Decision Management [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, Decision Management |
4th
April
2009
Stephen Few had another of his great posts on his Visual Business Intelligence blog – Do We Really Need More Data?. Stephen’s posts are always worth readingg – I highly recommend the blog – and this one prompted me to comment and I thought I would reproduce the comment here.
I see this problem regularly, albeit [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, Decision Management |
26th
March
2009
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Madeline Albright gave a great presentation at the SAS Global Forum in Washington DC this week. Several of her bon-mots are in the title but there were many others, some of which are below. Each of them struck me as relevant to readers of this blog:
Facts not Fears
Businesses all too often do things [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Decision Management |