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operational decision

Cognos, SPSS and Predictive Analytics

March 13, 2008

SPSS and IBM’s Cognos group recently made an announcement of a partnership to integrate their products. I don’t have any more details than the press release but take this announcement as an indication that IBM/Cognos reached the logical conclusion that Predictive Analytics is distinctly and uniquely different from Business Intelligence/Performance Management and that customers want/need [...]

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Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Reality Check with IDC

March 11, 2008

I dropped by the IDC Directions event today and saw two presentations. First up was Kathy Wilhide talking about Governance, Risk and Compliance or GRC as it is known. The GRC market has grown from a need for higher levels of confidence in financial and operational information. As compliance is not built into most existing [...]

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Wonderful (if off-topic) video from TED

March 6, 2008

Anyone interested in visualization and statistics should watch this video from TED – www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92. This was referred to me by a couple of very smart people and is well worth the 20 minutes. The speaker does a wonderful job of debunking some myths about the world and about the “third world” in particular. While it [...]

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LucidEra and SaaS analytics

February 20, 2008

Had a briefing today from the folks at LucidEra about their new product releases (press releases here and here). I met them through their blog and I think this whole area of AaaS (Analytics as a Service, though that’s not the best acronym) is an interesting one. After all, if you think improving operational decisions [...]

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For those (like me) who couldn’t make it to the Gartner BPM Summit

February 11, 2008

If, like me, you could not make it to the Gartner BPM Summit last week, here’s the next best thing. Three people I know well blogged about the conference. Sandy Kemsley, an independent expert on BPM, was the most thorough with David Straus (of Corticon) posting several times and a single post from Jim Sinur [...]

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How to use EDM to develop a competency in responding to change

December 6, 2007

A post by Randy Littleson on the Kinaxis blog today got me thinking about responding to change. The post discussed how a failure to develop a competency in responding to change leaves you scrambling. One of the key areas EDM is designed to impact is agility – the ability of an organization to sense, [...]

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