11th
June
2009
Angoss has just released a new version of their data mining and predictive analytics software, version 7.0. Key themes for 7 were:
Optimization
Mining enhancements like data weighting, in-database analytics, new statistics
Support for more complex IT environments
Usability
Angoss has long supported the development of strategies or decision trees – models that define the relevant customer segments for a [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining, Product News |
21st
May
2009
InRule Technology is continuing to sell with a ruthless focus on .NET. They say they are still getting good traction with their focus on being the premier .NET business rules solution. Version 3.2 was released mid May and was a release driven primarily by the requests they get from their customers, especially those selected by [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Product News |
20th
February
2009
Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
Sugato Basu from Google presented on sponsored search (Ad Words) and how you can predict bounce rate, and thus user satisfaction, for a new ad. Ad Words, of course, are displayed when a search is made and tracking results involves tracking who clicks on the ads and whether they convert, explore [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics |
20th
February
2009
Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
Arthur Hughes (author of Strategic Database Marketing) and Anna Lu of e-Dialog.com presented on predictive modeling for e-mail marketing. Arthur has been developing databases for database marketing for 30 years or so. Initially he focused on databases but found that people could not use them to make money and that led [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics |
17th
February
2009
I got my first chance to really see KXEN’s product a little while ago and, as I am off to Predictive Analytics World tomorrow, I thought I would blog about it. KXEN was founded in 1998. The product is designed to deliver automated data mining and predictive analytics at a function level – the user [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining, Product News |
2nd
December
2008
Charlie Berger of Oracle presented on Powering Next-Generation Predictive Applications with Oracle Data Mining (ODM). Charlie joined Oracle from Thinking Machines about a decade ago and have been putting machine learning algorithms into the Oracle kernel. Data Mining, in database or otherwise, sifts through data to find hidden patterns, discover new insights and make predictions. [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Data Mining |
7th
October
2008
On my recent trip to Europe I got my first chance for a real look at SeeWhy’s product and their announcement today of SeeWhy Tracks Individual Customers’ Digital Mood seemed like a good reason to blog a little about this interesting product. The latest version helps manage customer experience by analyzing page errors, page load [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Product News |
27th
August
2008
A reader had an interesting question this week. As a comment to Using decision management to deliver intelligent business performance he asked “What makes a company ready?”. I suspect my closing line “The products are, mostly, ready. Whether companies are is another question…” prompted this.
So, what makes a company ready for enterprise decision management – [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Decision Management |
10th
July
2008
ioSemantics is a company focused on automating and improving the QA process within decision management. Focused on increasing agility, ioSemantics is developing new technology to improve the link from development to production, especially in the kind of tight operate – assess – adapt – redeploy loop you see when business rules are being used [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Product News |
5th
May
2008
I spoke to Seth Grimes last week about an article he was writing that just published on Intelligent Enterprise -What BI Practitioners Can Learn From Operations Research. As I was reading the article I also noticed a response over on Michael Trick’s OR blog -Business Intelligence and Operations Research. Both Seth’s article and Michael’s response [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Data Mining, Decision Management, Optimization |