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Opportunities to meet me this fall

October 12, 2010

Show season kicked off today with RulesFest in San Jose. Great audience and good attendance for this technical show on business rules and related technology where I presented on Decision Services need more than rules. With that out of the way my schedule gets busy for a few weeks.
Next week I am giving a workshop [...]

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First Look – Aster Data

September 22, 2010

I listened in to the Boulder BI Brain Trust briefing from Aster some weeks back and then got a follow-on update last week. Aster was founded in 2005 based on research performed by a team at Stanford. The initial plan was to develop a data management platform based on commodity hardware and this was released [...]

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First Look – Rapid Predictive Modeler

September 2, 2010

SAS today announced SAS Rapid Predictive Modeler today. Some time ago I got a pre-release look at this most interesting product.
Today SAS sees quantitative modelers working on developing and validating models in conjunction with database architects to manage data preparation tasks. Like me they also find that business analysts work on the application of the [...]

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Update – SAS Model Manager

August 18, 2010

I got an update from SAS on SAS Model Manager recently. The new release came out August 17 alongside a new release of SAS Enterprise Miner and has some interesting new features. SAS Model Manager, as I noted in my previous review, supports the analytic model deployment lifecycle (from registering candidate models through validation, deployment, [...]

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Operational Analytics research available

May 6, 2010

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
I have been working on some research with the BeyeNETWORK and we are pleased to announce the release of “Operational Analytics: Putting Analytics to Work in Operational Systems”.
The basic premise for this report is the power of analytics to improve decision making has huge potential when applied to the large numbers of decisions [...]

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First Look – Revolution Analytics

May 6, 2010

I got my first formal briefing from REvolution Computing recently. REvolution has been around for about 2 years. Originally they focused on bringing parallel computing power to R and providing some consulting around the language. They raised some new funding recently and now have a new management team, including CEO Norman Nie (co-founder of SPSS) [...]

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Teradata Customer Warner Bros Home Entertainment

April 28, 2010

Thomas Tileston of Warner Bros Home Entertainment (DVDs, games and digital distribution part of Warner Bros) was next talking about their use of SAS and Teradata. He started with a little history as he has been using SAS for 20 years or so.

In the early days analytical data set preparation was 70% of the work [...]

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Teradata Business Analytics Innovation Center

April 28, 2010

Bill Franks was up next to talk about the joint SAS, Teradata, Elder Research Business Analytics Innovation Center. The purpose of this center is to help customers develop game changing analytic solutions not just adopt analytics. The center brings together best SAS and Teradata folks to help customers with analytics while also bringing third parties [...]

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Teradata – Q&A with Stephen Brobst

April 28, 2010

Stephen Brobst, Teradata’s CTO, took open Q&A.

What’s the business and architectural impact of the temporal (and spatial) extensions in 13.10?
Most Teradata customers are doing temporal things but implementing manually today using things like effective date columns. This is hard work and the new feature makes it easier to manage, more accessible to customers (some of [...]

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First Look – Oracle Data Mining

April 27, 2010

I got an update on Oracle Data Mining – the in-database solution for data mining and predictive analytics offered by Oracle – recently. They have made ODM available on the amazon compute cloud so you can easily try it and they have been doing some interesting work on a new GUI and on integration with [...]

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Detect, prevent, manage claims fraud

April 12, 2010

Insurance claims fraud is a huge deal, with most estimates seeing perhaps 10% of claims made being fraudulent – worth at least $30Bn/year. As a result the value of small improvement is huge. Of course, from my perspective, fraud is one of the classic uses of decision management and predictive analytics. Obviously the current economic [...]

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Realizing the value of analytics

April 12, 2010

Panel discussion with SAS, Accenture, Marriott talking about how to execute a business analytics strategy. Panels are hard to blog but here are some of the interesting points made:

Critical question is how to drive insight to action and make a difference to their business.
Analytics is a pervasive change in management theory
Enterprise-wide customer intelligence is the [...]

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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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First Look – SAS In-Database Analytics

April 12, 2010

SAS has been rolling out its in-database and in-warehouse analytics over the last few months and I thought it was time to get an update. SAS sees its in-database strategy as one way to address some of the challenges in putting analytics to work, especially in high-volume operational environments. In-database analytics can reduce the time [...]

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First Look – SAS Text Analytics

April 5, 2010

I got a chance to chat with some folks from SAS about their text analytics. SAS’ Business Analytics framework contains an Analytics component and within this exists a set of products from SAS such as Enterprise Miner and Model Manager as well as a set of capabilities like Operations Research, Forecasting and Text Analytics.
The text [...]

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SAS and Accenture

March 29, 2010

I got a chance to catch up with Russ Cobb, Vice President, Alliances and Product Marketing at SAS about the SAS/Accenture announcement recently. One of the first questions, of course, is whether this was just a “Barney” relationship (I love you, you love me) or if it had any meat. Russ understood completely and said [...]

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SAS and Accenture announce partnership

February 17, 2010

Accenture and SAS announced today that they will jointly create an analytics group focused on financial services, healthcare and public service. They describe this as a “significant evolution of the existing relationship between the two companies”. The release is at  http://www.sas.com/news/preleases/AccentureSASAnalyticsGroup.html
This is obviously an interesting announcement. Ever since IBM announced its new Business [...]

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Some rules and analytic job opportunities

February 11, 2010

Three job openings today. Decision Management Solutions partner Technology Blue is looking for a couple of experienced Blaze Advisor resources for a project starting March 1:

Senior Business Analyst: Full time resource with experience in business rule harvesting and analysis, process oriented, able to develop and implement processes, must be comfortable leading knowledge transfer and training [...]

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Business Analytics in Operations

January 26, 2010

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
I am working with the folks at B-eye Network and sponsors Oracle, SAS, Aha!, Adaptive and Fuzzy Logix on some research – Business Analytics: Putting Analytics To Work.There is growing interest in the power of analytics, especially predictive analytics, to improve business operations. The use of data mining and analytic techniques in operational [...]

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First Look – SAS Real Time Decision Manager

January 19, 2010

SAS Real-Time Decision Manager (RDM) is designed for inbound communications, complementing outbound communication solutions. It aims at real-time delivery of decisions and recommendations during a customer interaction to optimize that interaction to improve revenue, growth and retention. For example, in retail banking, a customer might come in with a new job with very different income [...]

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