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Opportunities to meet me this fall

October 12, 2010

Show season kicked off today with RulesFest in San Jose. Great audience and good attendance for this technical show on business rules and related technology where I presented on Decision Services need more than rules. With that out of the way my schedule gets busy for a few weeks.
Next week I am giving a workshop [...]

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Lots of decision management events this fall

September 7, 2010

The fall event sequence is starting and early bird discounts are expiring so it’s time to plan your fall

Webinar – Simplifying over-complex processes September 9, 10am Pacific
Webinar – Delivering customer centricity across multiple channels, multiple platforms September 23, 10am Pacific
Webinar – Implementing analytics? You need business rules October 7, 10am Pacific
RulesFest October [...]

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Fall events to learn more about decision management

July 27, 2010

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I am speaking or giving workshops at three events this fall and all three represent good opportunities for you to learn more about decision management:
First up is RuleFest 2010 in San Jose October 11-14. I am speaking on October 12 10:00 am to 10:50 on “Decision Services Need More Than Rules”. Rules Fest bills [...]

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Workshop at Predictive Analytics World/Business Rules Forum

June 30, 2010

[ October 18, 2010; ] I am giving a workshop between Predictive Analytics World and Business Rules Forum called “Driving Enterprise Decisions with Business Analytics and Business Rules”.
Putting business analytics to work is top of mind for organizations like yours. Business agility and operational responsiveness are more important than ever. There is a real opportunity to use analytics [...]

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Business rules forum – register now!

June 28, 2010

There are just a few days left to secure the Super Early Bird Price for the 13th International Business Rules Forum 2010 so register here. Join me October 17-21 at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, VA. This year your Business Rules Forum pass gives you access to three conferences [...]

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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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Performance Management, Decision Management

April 21, 2010

I presented on the role of decision management in adding agility to Performance Management to the BI SIG of the SDForum last night. Here are the slides and Paul O’Rorke blogged a summary.
Performance management and agilty
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Now that’s cute – data mining on an iPad

April 19, 2010

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Karl Rexer just sent me this link – Oracle Data Mining on iPad – and I have to say it is pretty cute. I recently got a demo of the new Oracle Data Mining capabilities and will post a quick summary of it soon but this is new way to look at the [...]

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Telemetry means little without analytics

April 6, 2010

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CNet had a nice story about UPS that caught my eye – UPS turns data analysis into big savings. What was interesting about this to me was not just the use of telemetry (which is interesting enough), but the way analytics acts as a massive value multiplier for this kind [...]

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New Rexer Analytics survey

March 30, 2010

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I recently got the survey results from the annual data mining survey that Karl Rexer of Rexer Analytics runs. You can get the summary here or the full results from Karl but here are my thoughts:

Data mining is everywhere. The most cited areas are CRM / Marketing and Financial Services with a [...]

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Analytic Journeys #pawcon

February 19, 2010

Here’s my presentation from Predictive Analytics World, reproduced with permission from Predictive Analytics World and Rising Media.Analytic Journeys from Predictive Analytics World

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Marketing Mix Modeling at Walmart Financial Services #pawcon

February 16, 2010

Final Predictive Analytics World presentation for me – Walmart Financial Services and Mu Sigma talking about marketing mix modeling. Walmart Financial Services focuses on the unbanked or under-banked. Specific services like money transfers, check cashing can be quite high volume in some locations and some 1,000 locations have branded MoneyCenters. Mu Sigma is an Indian [...]

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Protecting the most vulnerable #pawcon

February 16, 2010

John McConnell of Analytical People presented on the use of analytics in the UK’s transition to digital TV. This is being rolled out region by region, trying to improve the process each time. Several regions have been converted already. There is a group of people, in the UK as in other countries, for whom TV [...]

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Optimizing customer service levels with predictive analytics #pawcon

February 16, 2010

Richard Boire gave a presentation on predictive analytics in customer service at the Canadian Automobile Association. Organizations that successfully adopt analytics are willing, and able to change. Richard’s focus then is on tools and techniques that help create the engagement needed to drive adoption.
CAA is the Canadian equivalent of the US AAA, providing insurance, travel [...]

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Inductive Business-Rule Discovery in Text Mining #pawcon

February 16, 2010

Dean Abbott of Abbott Analytics presented on the induction of business rules having become, he said, reacquainted with and convinced of the value of business rules alongside data mining (something, of course, I would strongly support). The particular problem was a call center help desk in which text mining was used to find the rules [...]

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SPSS on what your customers tell you #pawcon

February 16, 2010

Eric Brethenoux of SPSS was up next talking about analytics using what your customers tell you. Customer segments are inherently blurred because they are a composite. Identifying the people behind a segment is hard and increasingly more difficult as the number of brands, devices, channels, media and social networks are exploding. And people have multiple [...]

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7 Innovative uses of analytics #pawcon

February 16, 2010

Eric Siegel’s keynote focused on new and innovative uses of analytics – asking the audience to focus on their most expensive operations, their greatest operational risks, their critical operational decisions.
Predictive analytics, he says, is a business intelligence technology that produces a predictive score for each customer or prospect – something scoring their risk of fraud, [...]

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Coming soon – Predictive Analytics World

February 2, 2010

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Predictive Analytics World, February 16-17, 2010 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco is turning into the biggest yet. I am going to be speaking on analytic journeys and giving a workshop on putting predictive analytics to work and there are some great keynotes from Andreas Weigen (ex-amazon.com), Kim Larsen (Charles Schwab) and [...]

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Predictive Analytics World – Early Bird expiring

January 14, 2010

Quick note to let you know that the early bird pricing for Predictive Analytics World expires this week so it’s time to register. You can also use my discount code – SPEAKPAW010 – to get a 15% discount. I am running a workshop the day before (you should be there) and speaking/moderating on the first [...]

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Speaking at Predictive Analytics World 2010

November 21, 2009

[ February 15, 2010 to February 16, 2010. ] The spring Predictive Analytics World 2010 is coming to San Francisco in February and the agenda is now published at PredictiveAnalyticsWorld.com.  I am giving a tutorial (Putting Predictive Analytics to Work) the day before the conference and speaking on the first day (Analytic journeys). If you are interested, use the code SPEAKPAW010 to get a [...]

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