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Some thoughts on advanced analytics

December 15, 2010

As part of the build up to today’s tweet jam on advanced analytics, Jim Kobelius discussed some of the questions they are planning to use in a blog post – Advance your analytics strategy. There’s a lot of good stuff in the article but I do have to take issue with a few things.
First, the [...]

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Here’s why you should refuse requests for reports!

November 9, 2010

One of my favorite web analytics bloggers, Avinash Kaushik at Occam’s Razor had a great post recently – Rebel! Refuse Report Requests. Only Answer Business Questions, FTW. In this post he argues that web analytics professionals should refuse requests for reports like

How much traffic is coming to our website?
I want a conversion rate
I want a [...]

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A really fresh look at business analytics

October 7, 2010

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
A friend sent me a link to a webinar on “The End of BI as We Know It” that promised “A fresh look at what business analytics means”. It wasn’t clear who was speaking or what company was sponsoring but the title intrigued me (as it was meant to). But when I looked [...]

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First Look – Predixion

September 14, 2010

Predixion Software launched their new product – Predixion Insight – this week and I got a pre-launch briefing.  Founded in 2009 based in Southern California and Redmond (development team is ex-Microsoft and the chairman is ex-Datallegro), their focus is on self-service predictive analytics, delivered through the cloud and accessible via Excel.  Information workers are the [...]

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Webinar – Decision analytics – more than BI and web analytics

August 30, 2010

Analytics means putting all your data, not just your web data, to work improving the way your web site works. It means using your historical data not for reporting but for predicting and driving new and more effective behavior across the company. It means putting all your data to work improving decision-making.
This webinar will show [...]

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First Look – Verix

May 14, 2010

I got my first look at Verix recently. Verix targets the commercial side of Pharmaceutical companies – sales first, then managed care and then marketing. They are trying to shift the burden of analysis work from sales managers, sales consultants to automated systems. They started with a core analytic competency and it evolved over time [...]

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Teradata – Coca Cola and customer intelligence

April 27, 2010

Justin Honaman from Coca Cola presented on their use of Teradata in their customer intelligence program.  Coca Cola has a huge range of products, in many sizes, as well as dozens of bottlers and distribution partners. The 72 bottlers are limited to specific geographies, adding a layer of complexity to their business. Justin’s group, Customer [...]

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IBM Advanced Case Management Technology

April 15, 2010

After the intro on Advanced Case Management, a more technical session. The idea, Carl Kessler says, is to take all the technology IBM has and create a real improvement in their case management capabilities. Carl explained how IBM takes what they see industries and customers doing and capture storyboards for these different scenarios like new [...]

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Guest intelligence at Target

April 12, 2010

Guest intelligence is something Target use to drive marketing and merchandising decisions. Target, of course, is a large US retailer that does business in 49 states and has a major web presence. Target has guest data from panel surveys,  store surveys and operational data and regards these all as valid sources of guest data, without [...]

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Challenge or Opportunity: Take Control

April 12, 2010

First SAS Global Forum Executive Conference session with Jim Davis, CMO of SAS, talking about fact-based decisioning.
A good crisis is a terrible thing to waste
Jim asked the audience if they took the opportunity of the recent crisis to re-tool their business, to re-assess how to run the business. One of the key ways to do [...]

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Telemetry means little without analytics

April 6, 2010

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
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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First Look – Lyza

June 10, 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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Leverging BPM and BI to create agile business processes

May 6, 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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Do the reports you generate prompt action?

March 27, 2009

Syndicated from ebizQ
A post over on the Walker Information Blog – Reports that prompt action made me think about the number of useless reports I see. Their focus was on voice of the customer or other customer information reports but it made me think more generally about reports. How many reports do business people in [...]

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Business Intelligence or Business Analytics?

March 25, 2009

Syndicated from ebizQ
At the SAS Global Forum this week some SAS speakers drew a distinction between Business Intelligence – BI – and Business Analytics. This distinction between Business Intelligence (what everyone else does) and Business Analytics (what SAS does) struck me as a distinction without a difference, as a friend of mine used to say.
As [...]

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Designing and implementing a web-based warranty system

March 12, 2009

Frank Kozlowski of Kohler presentedf on a web-based warranty system. When they set out to develop the system their goals were to move to a start-of-the-art, easy to use system that was web-based so dealers could enter claims directly anywhere in the world (they have 12,000 dealers). They wanted to reduce their cycle time from [...]

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First Look – Truviso

March 3, 2009

I got a second chance to chat with the folks at Truviso recently. Truviso was founded after a Professor and his PhD student, at Berkeley went back to the fundamentals of data management and predicated that in a world of highly interconnected objects it would be necessary to eliminate the batch-centric database process of “store [...]

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Intelligent OLAP: Data Mining and OLAP

December 3, 2008

Marty Gubar presented on Deliver Depper Insight by Combining Data Mining and OLAP. Marty presented on Oracle’s analytic spectrum and how OLAP and Data Mining fit and can be combined. OLAP and data mining are embedded in the Oracle database and share security, the partitioning, ETL etc. All can be accessed using PL/SQL so cubes [...]

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Decision Management, Tom Davenport and the New BI

December 2, 2008

Tom wrote an interesting post this week on 10 Principles of the New Business Intelligence and made a couple of really good points:
1. Decisions are the unit of work to which BI initiatives should be applied.
2. Providing access to data and tools isn’t enough if you want to ensure that decisions are actually improved.
I like [...]

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Making BI more decision-centric

October 8, 2008

My friend Kurt Schlegel at Gartner has just released a new report – Deliver Business Value With a BICC (BI Competency Center) Focused on Decision Making. In it he “identifies the steps required to evolve business intelligence (BI) beyond reporting measures, to making great decisions”. Like Kurt I believe that “Tying BI to the decision [...]

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