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Analytic truth and myth

November 19, 2009

Alison Bolen posted a nice list of analytic truths, or perhaps myths, on the SAS blog today and asked what people thought. I was, of course, unable to resist:

To make analytics successful, the CEO has to have a personal interest in it. MYTH
While it is true that the only companies I see who have made [...]

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Balancing Intuition and Analytics in Decision Making #PBLS

October 29, 2009

Malcolm Gladwell, Thornton May (author of The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics)and Tom Davenport (author of Competing on Analytics, reviewed here) made up a high powered panel for this. Various random comments follow:

Healthcare is being used as an example by the panel as an obvious point where analytics and expertise intersect. There is a [...]

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Analytics and Innovation #PBLS

October 29, 2009

Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, and Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm among other books, had a discussion on the use of analytics in innovation. Several areas were touched on from the global economy to innovation approaches to education.
The growth of low cost competitors in the global economy has commoditized that which can be [...]

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Analytics in the executive suite – a #PBLS panel

October 28, 2009

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
I am at the Premier Business Leadership Series, SAS/BetterManagement.com’s event, and I got to attend a great panel on Analytics in the Executive Suite. Barbara Pindar of Aeropostale, Eric Webster of State Farm Insurance, Cameron Davies of Disney and Keith Collins of SAS made up the panel. Each panelist gave [...]

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SAS customers and fraud detection

October 27, 2009

Another customer panel courtesy of SAS. This one had Rex Pruitt from Premier Bankcard (I blogged about how Premier put predictive analytics to work and Rex presented at Predictive Analytics World), Chris Swecker formerly of the FBI/Bank of America, Cameron Jones SAS’ Chief Compliance Officer and was moderated by Ellen Joyner. Fraud, obviously, is a [...]

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SAS customers and optimization

October 27, 2009

Next up in my SAS day was a panel on optimization. Bobby Hull of BGF Industries and Bill Nowicki of the Carolina Hurricanes were joined by Larry Mosiman of SAS on a panel hosted by Tammi Kay George. BGF is a leader in high-end composites and textiles. The Carolina Hurricanes, of course, are an NHL [...]

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SAS – An executive overview

October 27, 2009

I am spending some time as a guest of SAS this week and we got started today with Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS. He began by describing SAS Institute’s 33 years of continuous revenue growth as well as similarly growing reinvestment in R&D. SAS has not laid anyone off this year, for which kudos, and [...]

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Some interesting SAS-Teradata news

October 27, 2009

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I am spending some time with SAS this week and I was struck by a couple of announcements related to the ongoing SAS/Teradata partnership. First, the two companies have partnered with Elder Research to create a Business Analytics Innovation Center. This will both pilot new analytics (something at which John and his team [...]

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SAS Premier Business Leadership Event

October 8, 2009

[ October 28, 2009 to October 29, 2009. ] I will be a guest at the SAS Premier Business Leadership Event in Las Vegas. I’m not speaking but if you are at the event and see me, say hi.

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Putting predictive analytics to work at Premier Bankcard

September 21, 2009

I am giving a tutorial and a presentation on putting predictive analytics to work at the forthcoming Predictive Analytics World show in Washington DC (October 20th-21st with tutorials on the 19th). I always like to illustrate my points with real examples and I am going to be talking about Premier Bankcard, a SAS client. As [...]

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Better customer service, better results with predictive analytics

September 16, 2009

Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
I recently hosted a webcast for Smart Data Collective titled “Putting Customer Value to Work: What Predictive Analytics Can Do for Your Bottom Line”. With Korhan Yunak of Vodaphone Group, Anne Milley of SAS Institute and Mike Rote of Teradata Corporation on the panel we discussed how predictive analytics can provide [...]

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First Look – Angoss 7

June 11, 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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Which X is likely to do Y and so what?

May 28, 2009

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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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First Look – KNIME

April 7, 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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Customer Stories from the SAS Global Forum

April 1, 2009

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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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Here’s how to build on Business Analytics

March 31, 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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Facts not fears, confidence not certainty, critical thinking not wishful thinking

March 26, 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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Business Intelligence or Business Analytics?

March 25, 2009

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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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Accuracy not just confidence – some thoughts after attending SAS Global Forum 2009

March 24, 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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Opportunities to meet me or hear me speak

March 18, 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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