SaaS

First Look – Quiterian

January 10, 2012

Quiterian is a Spanish company with offices in the US, Mexico and Europe. Quiterian Analytics aims to be complementary to traditional tools for reporting by helping companies get more value from their data sooner. In particular they aim to help companies anticipate the future by providing simple to use predictive analytics and by empowering users while [...]

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First Look – Update on InfoCentricity Xeno

December 12, 2011

I got an update from InfoCentricity recently. InfoCentricity are a software company focused on delivering a web-based, advanced predictive analytics workbench (Xeno). They were founded back in 2000 have been releasing various components of their Xeno platform since then as well as a first application based on this platform (Campaign Analyzer). Xeno4 is the new [...]

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Predictive Analytics World Session: Five Growth Scenarios for Predictive Analytics in the Cloud

November 18, 2011

[ March 5, 2012; 10:40 am to 11:00 am. ] I am speaking at Predictive Analytics World San Francisco,  March 5th on Five Growth Scenarios for Predictive Analytics in the Cloud.
Predictive analytics and cloud technologies are hot topics individually, but how can you use them together? In this session industry expert James Taylor will discuss the use cases for predictive analytics in the cloud. He [...]

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Predictive Analytics in the Cloud – results available now

November 10, 2011

We have announced the full results of our Predictive Analytics in the Cloud survey. The results are available as a white paper and as a recorded webinar – go to smartdatacollective.com/predictive-analytics-cloud to register for all the deliverables. There were some interesting results and I thought I would share a few.

The core focus for predictive analytics, [...]

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Predictive Analytics in the Cloud – Sneak Peek Results

November 3, 2011

We are announcing the full results of our Predictive Analytics in the Cloud survey next week (Thursday, 10am Pacific) and will be making the results available also as a white paper at the same time. You can register on SmartData Collective for access to the white paper when it is published and for other deliverables [...]

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Wrapping up the Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research

October 31, 2011

The Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research we have been conducting is coming to an end. We have closed the survey having garnered over 200 business and technical professionals. – thanks to all who participated. We are going to publishing the study findings and survey results in a webinar and a white paper on November [...]

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Webinar: Predictive Analytics in the Cloud Survey Results

October 30, 2011

[ November 10, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:30 am. ] We surveyed over 200 business and technical professionals for our study on cloud based predictive analytic solutions. Thanks to all who participated. Study findings and survey results will be presented on Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. PT, 1:00 p.m. ET, and will include short presentations from our research sponsors – Clario Analytics, FICO, [...]

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Predictive Analytics in the Cloud – last chance for survey

October 21, 2011

Our Predictive Analytics in the  Cloud survey closes today so this is your last chance to tell us what you think. We’ve had hundreds of replies but we want yours too.Go to smartdatacollective.com/predictive-analytics-cloud-survey to take the survey – should only take you 10 minutes tops. If you started it and never finished, now would be [...]

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First results from the Predictive Analytics in the Cloud survey

October 6, 2011

We have had great response to our Predictive Analytics in the Cloud survey – thanks to KD Nuggets for their support in particular this last week – and I have recorded a podcast with some of the initial highlights. We are leaving the survey open through the end of Predictive Analytics World so you can [...]

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FICO World Presentation: Predictive Analytics in the Cloud

October 3, 2011

[ November 3, 2011; 10:15 am to 11:15 am. ] Just announced: I am speaking on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud at FICO World on Thursday November 3rd at 10:15 ET
Predictive analytics and cloud technologies are hot topics individually, but how can you use them together? In this session industry expert James Taylor will discuss the use cases for predictive analytics in the cloud. He [...]

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New Predictive Analytics in the Cloud deliverable

September 29, 2011

We just posted a second deliverable from the Predictive Analytics in the cloud study. In addition to the position paper there is now a quick introductory webinar. Covering similar information to the position paper with some great case studies, this webinar lays out the key areas of potential for Predictive Analytics in the Cloud solutions.
To [...]

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Predictive Analytics in the Cloud position paper available

September 22, 2011

The Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research we are conducting is moving on. The survey is open for you to give us your opinion and the position paper is now available. The position paper discusses the value propositions for 5 ways to use predictive analytics in the cloud:

Pre-packaged Cloud Based Solutions
Predictive Analytics for SaaS
Predictive Analytics [...]

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Survey on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud – tell us what you think

September 20, 2011

Decision Management Solutions, the company of which I am CEO, is running a study on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud. Both Predictive Analytics and Cloud are hot topics and the intersection has tremendous potential. Whether it is using cloud-based decision management systems powered by predictive analytics, using the cloud to deliver predictive analytics to SaaS [...]

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Update on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud

August 31, 2011

Our Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research is moving forward. We announced this multi-stage, multi-client project a week ago and are busy developing the survey (plan is to launch this mid-September) and the initial position paper. I’ve had some great interviews with our sponsors (Clario Analytics, FICO, Opera Solutions, Predixion Software, SAS, Teradata, and Toovio) [...]

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First Look – Silvertail Systems

July 19, 2011

Silver Tail Systems was founded in 2008 by founders with a background in web search, trend analytics and fraud detection. After joining eBay to fight phishing and other kinds of fraud like fake auctions and fake bids, the team sat down and figured out the tools that would have been helpful tackling these fraud challenges. [...]

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Update – Zementis

June 9, 2011

I got a chance to catch up with Zementis. I last got an update from them on the product back in May 2010 when they released 3.0 with their support of Drools as well as PMML. Zementis is reporting good momentum with large customers such as the US Army and Verizon as well as a [...]

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IBM Analytics customer stories

June 1, 2011

A number of customers participated in a panel of analytics success stories. Each one was interesting and powerful in its own right and each prompted a Decision Management suggestion for someone at that stage in developing and deploying analytics.
Argos Risk is a web-based online subscription risk management service. Argos offers actionable risk insight for business [...]

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Update – In2Clouds

May 16, 2011

I got an update from in2clouds recently. Since I last wrote about them (see this First Look on in2clouds) they have made 3 key updates – they have added support for ensemble models, moved to allow private/hybrid cloud deployment and completed their service definition API.
Ensemble models first. While using an ensemble model does not always [...]

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Decision Management, Big Data and McKinsey

May 13, 2011

Cross posted at International Institute for Analytics
McKinsey just published a new study “Big Data: the next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity” that is definitely worth reading. With lots of detail – it runs to more than 150 pages – it discusses why there is so much more data, what that means and how this [...]

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First Look – Sparkling Logic

April 27, 2011

Sparkling Logic is a new company founded by a couple of old colleagues of mine and focused on what they call “Social Logic”. They have developed a social, cloud-based environment designed to help companies find the best, most defined decision logic that launched today at the Gartner BPM Summit. Fundamentally the new platform aims to [...]

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