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 |
28th
May
2009
Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
Gary Cokins had a great post – Fill in the blanks: Which X is Most Likely to X? in which he identifies some great uses for predictive analytics.Increasing employee retention, increasing customer profitability and increased shelf opportunity are classic uses. What Gary does so well in this post, though, is point out that [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Decision Management |
7th
April
2009
I got a chance to chat with the folks from KNIME recently to discuss their workbench. KNIME is essentially a workbench to define the pipeline of operations you want throw at your data, typically as part of doing analytic work. It allows you to do complex things to the data and document your process – [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining, Product News |
1st
April
2009
Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
Last week I posted a couple of times about my impressions from the SAS Global Forum. In one post I said that “SAS customers talk about the great results they get when they put their predictive analytics to work in operational systems” so I thought I should expand on that a little, using [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Decision Management, Optimization |
31st
March
2009
As I blogged earlier, at the SAS Global Forum this week some SAS speakers drew a distinction between Business Intelligence – BI – and Business Analytics. I worry that this is a distinction without a difference and that it fell short of what SAS can offer its customers. Neil Raden, on his blog, dismissed the [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Business Rules, Decision Management |
26th
March
2009
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Madeline Albright gave a great presentation at the SAS Global Forum in Washington DC this week. Several of her bon-mots are in the title but there were many others, some of which are below. Each of them struck me as relevant to readers of this blog:
Facts not Fears
Businesses all too often do things [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Decision Management |
25th
March
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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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI |
24th
March
2009
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I spent a couple of days with thousands of SAS users this week at the SAS Global Forum 2009. There were some great sessions and, as usual with SAS, some terrific customer stories and I suspect I will write a couple of posts. This post, though, is about the theme – Leading with [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Data Mining, Decision Management |
18th
March
2009
While the blog has a list of my forthcoming speaking engagements on the sidebar, I realize that some of you only ever see the feed so I thought I would do a post with some upcoming opportunities to see or hear me in the wild.
If you just want to meet me, you could catch me [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Decision Management, News |
12th
March
2009
Josh Becker of SubZero Wolf and Dave Froning of SAS presented on integrating text analytics and data analytics to make an impression. Text analytics has a lot of potential but success stories are not as widespread as you would think they should be nor are there many stories of operationalizing text analytics. The challenge, Dave [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining |